FBI announces new special agent in charge of field office in Houston

James Smith will serve as the special agent in charge of the FBI's field office in Houston, the federal agency announced Monday.

Smith — who recently worked in Washington, D.C., at the agency’s headquarters as the associate deputy director’s chief of staff — began his time with the FBI in the mid-2000s when he was a special agent at the field office in Los Angeles, according to an FBI release.Harris County has a new criminal justice czar, once the FBI’s top official in Houston

His experience over the years includes work with the MS-13 National Gang Task Force Unit at the FBI’s headquarters and the International Violent Crimes Unit. He went back in 2013 to the Los Angeles field office, where he then served as Violent Crimes Against Children Squad supervisor, per the release.

He was later the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Squad supervisor, and then got a 2016 promotion to be the assistant special agent in charge of the field office in San Antonio, according to the release.Smith worked at the agency’s headquarters in 2020 with the Inspection Division before he was named later that year to his most recent chief of staff role, per the release.

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