WASHINGTON — Native New Yorker Diego Rodriguez is leaving the mothership at FBI headquarters to return home as special agent in charge of the criminal division in New York, the agency announced Thursday.
Rodriguez, the section chief of the Domain and Collection Management Section in the Directorate of Intelligence at FBI headquarters, started his FBI career in 1990 in New York.
He was a member of the SWAT team and the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force, which was responsible for investigations involving South American and Mexican drug trafficking and money laundering organizations, the FBI said.
In August 1997, he headed south to the San Juan Division. Two years later, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in Criminal Investigative Division at FBI headquarters and was assigned to the Special Operations Division.
In 2001, he transferred to the Miami Division, where he supervised the High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area squad. The following year, he supervised the FBI’s first Joint Terrorism Task Force in the West Palm Beach Resident Agency, the FBI said.
In June 2003, Rodriguez returned to headquarters as unit chief of the Field Oversight Unit in the Directorate of Intelligence. Shortly after, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge at the Washington Field Office.
