NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — FBI’s New Orleans Field Office has a new special agent in charge.
The FBI reported that Director Christopher Wray named Lyonel Myrthil as the special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Office.
After joining the FBI as a special agent in 2008, FBI leaders said Myrthil was assigned to work violent crime in the St. Louis Field office. Throughout his career, he served as a member of the FBI SWAT Team, a certified FBI sniper, Defensive Tactics and Tactical Instructor and a Firearms Instructor.
In 2012, while working in the New York Field Office, he was a part of the Safe Streets Gang Task Force, where he investigated violence and drug trafficking in the communities of New York. He then was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterterrorism Division at the FBI headquarters in Washinton, D.C. in 2015.
As Chief of Staff to the Associate Deputy Director in 2022, he served as chief advisor in the administration of programs and operations for the FBI’s business portfolio.
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