By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — Richard C. Powers, a 19-year veteran of the FBI, and a former state prosecutor, will head up the bureau’s Houston Division
Powers, who last served as assistant director of the Office of Congressional Affairs at FBI headquarters, replaces Andrew Bland, who retired, the FBI announced on Wednesday.
Powers entered the FBI in 1991 and worked in different offices including headquarters in 1996 where he was assigned to the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime/Drug Section.
From 1998 to 2004, he was assigned to the Houston office where he held jobs that included being detailed to the DEA to supervise a multi-agency major case squad; supervise a FBI-sponsored violent crime task force and work as a supervisory senior resident agent of the Texas City Resident Agency.
He eventually became a assistant special agent in charge in Houston in 2002. He returned to headquarters and later became special agent in charge of the Denver office. He then returned again to headquarters, the FBI said.
Before joining the FBI, he was a Chicago area cop, a state prosecutor and a civil litigation attorney, the FBI said.
