By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman has become an an FBI agent. A source tells the Chicago Tribune that Tillman graduated from the FBI’s training academy is now working as an agent. Tillman, 37, retired from the NFL in 2016.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Gordon Johnson, FBI special agent in charge of the Maryland field office, is retiring from the agency after 20 years on the job. Johnson, the first African American to head up the office, sat down with ABC7 to talk about his career. He was with the bureau for 20 years.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Eric B. Smith, a native of Ohio, has been named head of the Cleveland FBI. Smith, 49, a native of the London, Ohio, joined the FBI in 1999 and was first assigned to the Wichita Resident Agency, Kansas City Field Office, where he worked violent crime, counterterrorism and counterintelligence. In 2005,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joseph R. Bonavolonta, who had served as deputy assistant director for the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division since March 2018, has taken over as head of the Boston field office. He’s no stranger to the Boston office, having previously served as assistant special agent in charge there from 2013 to 2017. Bonavolonta has…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Todd A. Wickerham, who served as a special assistant for the FBI’s associate deputy director since 2017, has been named special agent in charge of the Cincinnati Field Office. Wickerham, who joined the FBI in 1997, has held a variety of investigative, operational, and management positions in the bureau. He was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White, 41, was fatally shot Thursday night in Tucson, Az., while serving a fugitive warrant, the agency said Friday. The shooter was taken into custody. White, who was married and the father of four, was rushed to Banner-University Medical Center where he succumbed to his injuries later…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com George Piro is returning to Miami for his second tour of duty as special agent in charge of the FBI field office. Piro headed up the Miami office from 2014 to 2017 before becoming assistant director of the International Operations Division at headquarters. Piro has held a variety of investigative, operational,…
Border Patrol’s busy Laredo Sector has a new interim chief after two of its agents have been charged with murder this year.
