FBI Names New Special Agents in Charge of Detroit, Louisville Field Offices 

Special Agent in Charge Michael Stansbury

By Steve Neavling

The FBI field offices in Detroit and Louisville have new leaders. 

Cheyvoryea Gibson has been named special agent in charge of the Detroit Field Office. He most recently served as section chief of the Criminal Investigative Division. 

Michael Stansbury has been named special agent in charge of the Louisville Field Office. He had been serving as the deputy assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence. 

Gibson joined the bureau in 2003 and began his career in the Washington Field Office. Since then, he has served as supervisor special agent in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI headquarters, supervisory special agent in the Washington Field Office, and section chief of the Violent Crime Unit in the Criminal Investigative Division. 

In 2018, Gibson became assistant inspector of the Inspection Division, and a year later, he was promoted to the assistant special agent in charge of the Baltimore Field Office. 

Cheyvoryea Gibson

Before joining the bureau, Gibson served as a deputy sheriff and detective with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Tampa, Fla., for seven years. He received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Saint Leo University and a master’s degree from Boston University. 

Stansbury joined the bureau in 2000 and began his career in the Columbia Field Office. Since then, he served as supervisory special agent in the Criminal Investigative Division, gang and violent crime supervisor in the Columbia Field Office, and assistant special agent in charge of the Charlotte Field Office. 

In 2021, Stansbury became section chief of the Directorate of Intelligence. 

Before joining the bureau, Stansbury was a police officer with the Terrell Police Department in Texas and a state trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety. He received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Texas A&M University-Commerce and a master’s degree in homeland security from St. Joseph’s University. 

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