Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will become special agent in charge of Oregon’s FBI office, The Oregonian reports. Bretzing, 47, will take over on March 31. Bretzing, whose father was an FBI agent, served as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and NSA monitored all emails and text messages in the Salt Lake City area in 2002 when the city was hosting the Winter Olympics, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Unnamed officials said the two agencies worked with Qwest Communications to intercept communications for nearly six months. Former Sen. Bob Bennett,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mary F. Rook, a 29-year veteran of the FBI, was named the first woman to serve as special agent in charge of the bureau’s Salt Lake City Division in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The announcement Monday marks yet another big achievement by a female FBI agent in a field that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ken Porter, an assistant special agent-in-charge for the FBI in Salt Lake City, will retire after nearly three decades of service, the Desert News reports. Porter’s father, J. Robert Porter, also worked for the FBI, but he and his partner were gunned down while on duty near San Diego, the News reported….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent was charged with using his position to try and derail a federal probe into a business partner, the Justice Department announced. A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City on Thursday charged FBI special agent Robert G. Lustyik Jr., 50, of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; Michael L. Taylor, 51,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Salt Lake City FBI agent is changing how authorities investigate child sex crimes, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Special Agent Eric Zimmerman created software that the FBI approved last fall, leading to the arrests of more than 220 suspects, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The 13…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com We’ve all been annoyed to find a hidden banking fee lurking in the shadows of our bank statements from time to time. But a Utah man took that frustration to another level, according to an Associated Press report out of West Jordan, Utah. Joshua Raymond Townsend, 20, is facing a federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Salt Lake City FBI is going green. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) broke ground on Thursday for a new green-certified, four-story FBI building at 5425 West Amelia Earhart Drive in Salt Lake City, the FBI said. The building will be made of at least 30 percent recycled content. The…
