FBI Appoints New Special Agent-in-Charge of Norfolk Field Office
The FBI’s Hampton Roads region has a new leader, the bureau announced Monday.
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FBI Targeted Suspected Spy Pretending to Date Him
By Scott Daugherty The Virginian-Pilot © August 17, 2013 Step one to building an attempted-espionage case: Respond to your target’s personal ad on Craigslist. Step two: Pose as a single woman interested in a relationship and exchange dozens of emails. Step three: Go on a couple of dates at Town Center. That was how the…
FBI Virginia HQ Moves to Chesapeake
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com New roomier digs are coming in 2013 for one of the FBI’s smallest divisions. WAVY.com reports that the FBI will move its Hampton Roads regional headquarters from Norfolk to Chesapeake, Virginia. Special Agent in Charge John Boles told WAVY.com the new three-story office building will be about twice the size of the…
John Boles to Head Up FBI’s Norfolk, Va. Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Boles has been named head of the FBI’s Norfolk, Va., office, the agency announced Friday. Boles, who last served as special assistant to the National Security Branch (NSB) executive assistant director and as section chief of the NSB Executive Staff Section, joined the bureau in 1995. He was first assigned…
2 Somali Pirates Get Life in Deaths of S/V Quest Hijacking
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Somali pirates involved in the hijacking of the S/V Quest, which resulted in the death of four Americans, were sentenced Monday in Norfolk, Va. fed court to life in prison. Muhidin Salad Omar, 30, and Mahdi Jama Mohamed, who is about 24, admitted in the plea agreements that they participated in…
3 Somali Pirates Plead Guilty in Hijacking of Ship That Resulted in 4 American Deaths
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Three Somali pirates pled guilty Friday in federal court in Norfolk, Va., to leading the group that hijacked the S/V Quest in the Indian Ocean, which resulted in the death of four American crew members in February. “These men have admitted to pirating an American yacht and holding four U.S. citizens…
FBI’s Long Arm Nabs Pirate Negotiator in Somalia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The long arm of the FBI reached into Somalia and plucked out a man suspected of being the chief negotiator for a group of pirates who hijacked an American yacht in February and ultimately killed all four people aboard, authorities announced Wednesday. Mohammad Saaili Shibin, who worked ashore as the pirates…
Ex-CIA Official Gets 5 Years-Plus in Prison for Sexual Assault in Algeria on Embassy Property
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-CIA official Andrew Warren, who pleaded guilty last year to drugging and sexually assaulting an Algerian woman in 2008 on embassy property in Algiers, and using cocaine while possessing a firearm in Virginia, was sentenced Thursday to five years and five months in prison. Warren’s sentencing in U.S. District Court in…
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