Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Cory B. Nelson, Special Agent in Charge of Chicago’s FBI Office, is leaving his post after just seven month to take a job in the private sector, the Chicago Sun Times reports. The 51-year-old notified the bureau Wednesday that he was leaving for a job with insurance and banking firm USAA in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Twenty-year veteran Essam Rabadi became the new special agent in charge this month, Philly.com reports. Rabadi, a native of Yonkers, N.Y., became an ATF special agent in 1992, three years after he started off as a local police officer, Philly.com reported. Rabadi supervised the Philadelphia division’s drug-trafficking task force from 2000 to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Denver office has a new leader. Thomas P. Ravenelle, who most recently served in the inspection division at FBI’s headquarters in Washington D.C., has been named as special agent in charge of the Denver office, CBS Denver reports. He replaces James Yacone, who left in March to work for the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Ed Hanko took over as special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia office, he prominently displayed a photo of his father standing with about 60 other helmeted coal miners at a plant in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The weathered black-and-white photo on his bookshelf reminds Hanko of how hard…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the Upper Midwest office of the ATF said his priority will be getting violent offenders off the street, the Associated Press reports. Scott Sweetow, who was named special agent in charge of the ATF’s St. Paul Field Division in January, said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The special agent who oversaw the FBI’s Seattle office cleared a hurdle in her discrimination lawsuit against the bureau Thursday, the Seattle Times reports. U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled that Special Agent-in-Charge Laura M. Laughlin, 55, can proceed with her claims of sex discrimination and retaliation, the Seattle Times reported. Laughlin…
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 A new FBI agent will oversee operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Carlos Cases, previously served as director for Latin America and the southwest border for the FBI’s criminal investigations division in Washington, D.C., will monitor crimes in U.S. territories from the San Juan, Puerto Rico office, the FBI…
