A Defense Department training exercise in Boston went wrong when federal personnel incorrectly detained a person in a hotel who was not a part of the exercise, according to an FBI spokesperson.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal is displayed outside FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2018.
Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, FBI agents helped Department of Defense officials with a training exercise "to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment," the FBI said in a statement. "Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player," the FBI said.The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal is displayed outside FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2018."Safety is always a priority of the FBI, and our law enforcement partners, and we take these incidents very seriously," the FBI added.
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