Source: United States Department of Justice News
A Montana man pleaded guilty in federal court in the District of North Dakota to a felony charge of obstructing an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proceeding stemming from the 2014 death of an oilfield worker in Williston, North Dakota.
Source: United States Navy
The “Warbucks” of Training Squadron (VT) 4 SAU held a change-of-command ceremony at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, March 5.
Cmdr. Melissa “FASM” Dillard relieved Cmdr. Sara “SUMAT” Taylor as commanding officer during a ceremony held at the National Naval Aviation Museum on base.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News
The FBI is aware of Microsoft’s emergency patch for previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server software, attributed to the APT actor known by Microsoft as HAFNIUM. The FBI is working closely with our interagency and private sector partners to understand the scope of the threat. Network owners should immediately patch their systems.
Help us respond to victims and hold those responsible accountable. If your Exchange Server from Microsoft has been compromised, please contact your local FBI field office.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News
Director Christopher Wray has named M.A. “Mo” Myers as the executive assistant director of the Intelligence Branch at FBI Headquarters in Washington. Mr. Myers serves as the strategic leader of the FBI’s intelligence program, responsible for overseeing the FBI’s intelligence strategy, resources, policies, and functions.
Mr. Myers most recently served as the assistant director of the Insider Threat Office, the FBI’s central strategic coordinating component for all insider threat issues.
Mr. Myers began his career as an FBI agent in 1996 and primarily worked counterintelligence matters in the Miami Field Office. He conducted numerous complex counterintelligence operations, as well as extraterritorial operations with the FBI’s intelligence community partners. He also served on the Miami SWAT team from 1999 to 2004.
In 2004, Mr. Myers transferred to a counterintelligence squad in the Richmond Field Office in Virginia. He was promoted in 2008 to supervisory special agent over Richmond’s Field Intelligence Group and returned to the counterintelligence squad in 2010.
Mr. Myers was promoted to unit chief in the National Security Branch at Headquarters in 2011. Three years later, he was named the assistant special agent in charge of the intelligence and support services branch in the Oklahoma City Field Office.
In 2016, Mr. Myers was promoted to chief of the Instruction Section in the Training Division. The section is responsible for training new special agents, intelligence analysts, and staff operations specialists, and for providing instruction to National Academy participants.
He was named special agent in charge of the Memphis Field Office in Tennessee in 2018 and as the assistant director of the Insider Threat Office in 2020.
Mr. Myers earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina and a master’s degree from Norwich University. Before joining the FBI, Mr. Myers was a state probation and parole agent in Columbia, South Carolina.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) State Crime News
SEATTLE, WA—The FBI’s Seattle Field Office is seeking information regarding Louis Sam Wyena, 42, of White Swan, for his alleged involvement in the violent assault of an intimate partner, which resulted in substantial bodily injury to the victim in White Swan, Washington. The incident occurred in December 2019. Louis Sam Wyena may visit or have ties to the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation, Columbia River in-lieu sites. See poster for more information.
On August 18, 2020, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Wyena in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, Spokane, Washington, after he was charged with the aforementioned crime.
Anyone with information regarding these incidents should contact the FBI’s Seattle Field Office at 206-622-0460 or tips.fbi.gov.