Category: FBI

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

Director Christopher Wray has named Christine O’Neill as the assistant director of the Human Resources Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Ms. O’Neill most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Mission Services Division at the Washington Field Office.

Ms. O’Neill joined the FBI as a special agent in 1999 and was assigned to the Meriden Resident Agency, a satellite office of the New Haven Field Office in Connecticut. She primarily investigated white-collar crime. In 2005, she was promoted to supervisory special agent and was assigned to the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters. She worked in the Global Operations Unit and the Iraq Unit of the International Terrorism Operations Section II in McLean, Virginia. She also served as the FBI liaison to Iraq for several months in 2007.

Ms. O’Neill was promoted in 2007 to supervisor of the Boston Field Office’s health care fraud program, which she led for nearly seven years. In 2014, she was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of Boston’s Intelligence/Administrative Branch. She transferred to ASAC of Boston’s White Collar Branch in 2016.

In 2017, Ms. O’Neill was promoted to chief of the Intelligence and Threat Analysis Section of the Security Division at Headquarters. She shifted to chief of the Security Operations Section in 2018 and was promoted to deputy assistant director of the division’s Security Operations Branch I in 2019.

She was promoted to special agent in charge of the Mission Services Division at the Washington Field Office in 2020.

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. O’Neill worked in the investment sector. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Bentley University.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

Director Christopher Wray has named Jennifer L. Moore as the assistant director of the Security Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Ms. Moore most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Intelligence and Incident Response Division at the Washington Field Office.

Ms. Moore joined the FBI in 1995 as an office automation assistant in the San Diego Field Office. She was promoted to a supervisor, then was selected as a special agent in 1998. Her first assignment as a new agent was in the Dallas Field Office, where she worked complex financial crimes and public corruption. She was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2005 and oversaw personal, physical, and information security at the office.

In 2010, Ms. Moore transferred to the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters as a supervisor in internal investigations. She was promoted to supervisory special resident agent in 2012 and placed in charge of three resident agencies under the Las Vegas Field Office.

Ms. Moore was promoted to an assistant special agent in charge in the Louisville Field Office in Kentucky in 2015, leading the FBI’s criminal investigations throughout the state. She also oversaw the incident response teams and the administrative functions for the field office.

Ms. Moore was promoted to section chief in the Security Division at Headquarters in 2017, focusing on internal security issues. She transferred to the Strategic Realignment Project Management Office in 2019, where she oversaw the expansion of FBI Headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Pocatello, Idaho.

She was named SAC of the Intelligence and Incident Response Division at the Washington Field Office in 2019.

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. Moore was a manager with an international marketing firm. She earned a degree in business management.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual responsible for an attempted carjacking that occurred at an Albuquerque park.

On June 26, 2021, at approximately 9:00 p.m., two women approached their red 2016 Kia Forte at the Ventana Ranch Community Park in Albuquerque.

An unknown male suspect walked toward them, pointed a silver handgun, and demanded the car keys.

The women entered the car and locked the doors moments before the suspect tapped on the driver’s window with his weapon and tried to open the door.

As the car left the area, the suspect fired at least one round that impacted the rear driver’s side door.

The women were not injured.

The suspect wore a black-hooded sweatshirt with the hood over his head, a gray face mask, gray pants, and gray and black Vans shoes.

The Albuquerque Police Department is assisting in the investigation.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact the FBI at (505) 889-1300.

Tips can also be submitted online at tips.fbi.gov.

The suspect is considered armed and dangerous. Do not approach him yourself.

An FBI poster with downloadable photos and a sketch of the suspect can be found here: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/attempted-carjacking-with-a-firearm

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

The FBI and local law enforcement are looking for an unidentified man who robbed banks in Moriarty and Tijeras on Monday morning July 19, 2021, and likely robbed another bank in Moriarty last week.

The first robbery on Monday occurred at U.S. Bank, located at 1401 U.S. Route 66, in Moriarty, at approximately 9:27 a.m.

The suspect was described as a Hispanic male, 5’6” to 5’8” tall. He wore a blue NASA baseball cap with light-colored brim, long-sleeve green shirt, light-colored pants, and a dark bandana over the lower half of his face.

The suspect entered the bank and handed a demand note to a teller.

The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of money to the suspect, who left the bank.

At approximately 10:12 a.m., a suspect with the same description entered Wells Fargo, 503 NM-333, in Tijeras.

He handed a demand note to a teller, who gave an undisclosed amount of money to the suspect.

The suspect left the bank.

The suspect’s physical description matches that of the man who robbed Wells Fargo, 901 U.S. Route 66, in Moriarty, at approximately 2:53 p.m. on Thursday, July 15, 2021: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/albuquerque/news/press-releases/fbi-media-alert-man-wearing-gucci-face-mask-robs-moriarty-bank

Anyone with information about these robberies is asked to contact the FBI at (505) 889-1300.

Tips can also be submitted online at tips.fbi.gov.

Information about other bank robbers wanted by the FBI can be found at bankrobbers.fbi.gov.

Bank robbery carries a possible prison term of up to 20 years. The use of a gun, other dangerous weapon, toy gun, or hoax bomb device during the commission of a bank robbery can be punishable by a prison term of up to 25 years.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

The FBI and our partners are determined to disrupt the increasingly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored cyber activity that targets U.S. political, economic, military, education, and counterintelligence personnel and organizations. The FBI remains committed to imposing risk and consequences for this type of repeated malicious cyber activity, and we urge our partners to apply these recommended mitigations to decrease the risk this actor poses to their networks.