Atlanta FBI boss ousted after balking at 2020 election probe
Special Agent in Charge Paul Brown refused to execute search warrants over Trump’s long-running fraud claims, sources tell MS NOW.
The special agent in charge of the FBI’s Atlanta field office was forced out this month after questioning the Justice Department’s renewed push to probe Fulton County’s role in the 2020 election, two people familiar with the matter told MS NOW.
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I’m a NO — not one more penny for ICE without stopping this violence. Two American citizens were killed by federal agents.
No more roving patrols. No more secret masked police. No more warrantless raids. Investigate and prosecute ICE crimes.
Get ICE out of Minnesota.
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Tony Barker, who served as the acting chief of the law enforcement operations directorate for the Border Patrol, is now under investigation for his behavior by Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility
Tony L. Barker, a top official with CBP, resigned in 2023 after being accused by multiple female employees of sexual harassment. Barker, who was the acting Chief of CBP's Operations Directorate, allegedly pressured female employees for sex and retaliated when his advances were rejected.
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Blake Northway in his ICE uniform
Blake Northway booking photo from the Jackson County Jail
ICE deportation officer Blake Northway of Oregon was sentenced to 25 years in prison on sodomy and incest charges for sexually abusing an underage female relative for more than nine years, between March 2009 and September 2018.
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An image provided by federal prosecutors shows Luis Uribe in 2022 at a seafood restaurant (left) and his driver’s license photo (right). At the restaurant he allegedly met with a sex worker who took this photo and bribed him with free sex in an unsuccessful attempt to end his attacks.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe was indicted in Dec 2025 on 11 counts. He committed multiple “gunpoint sexual assaults” and robberies of women in the Chicago area, who offered him money and referenced their children as they begged him to stop. Uribe preyed on sex workers.
08.01.2026 02:04 — 👍 583 🔁 270 💬 6 📌 18
One of the most morally consistent and respectable Senators:
“I’ve made my position clear: not another dime for Trump’s lawless ICE operations means not another dime, not even for one more day,” said Senator Van Hollen. “That’s why I voted against the funding bill before the Senate today.”
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Michael William Barends booking photo
Michael William Barends, 43, a Border Patrol supervisor from Alpine, TX, was arrested in 2020 for continuous sexual assault of a child. The abuse began in 2015 when the victim was 13 years old.
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Vernon Lee Millican, a Border Patrol agent from Leakey, TX, was sentenced in 2020 to 50 years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a female relative and filming it. The abuse started when the victim was only six years old.
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Spencer Allen Cox booking photo, Bexar County Sheriffs
Spencer Allen Cox, 24, a Border Patrol agent from Uvalde, TX, was arrested in 2020 for soliciting a minor for sex and sending obscene materials to her via Snapchat. He was wearing his CBP uniform when he solicited the underaged victim, who had already told him her age.
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booking photo for Jeremy Tyler Cole, Chandler, AZ Police Dept
Jeremy Tyler Cole, a Border Patrol Agent from Arizona, was sentenced in 2015 for molesting three girls ages five, 12 and 14.
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Dana Thornhill booking photo, Cochise County Jail
Dana Ray Thornhill, a Border Patrol Agent from Arizona, was sentenced in 2020 to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to repeatedly molesting multiple children between 1995 to 2007.
Thornill, a 20-year veteran of CBP, was first arrested at age 13 for sexually assaulting a younger girl.
08.01.2026 03:29 — 👍 328 🔁 153 💬 4 📌 4
John Daly III (Cochise County Sheriff's Department Photos)
John Daly III, a Border Patrol Agent from Arizona, a/k/a the East Valley Serial Rapist, was charged in 2021 with at least seven rapes across multiple Phoenix suburbs from 1999 to 2001. Authorities seized 279 guns from Daly’s house when they arrested him. The true number of victims is still unknown.
08.01.2026 03:15 — 👍 489 🔁 235 💬 6 📌 12
Booking photo for Roy Ramirez Jr., McAllen Police Department
US Border Patrol agent Roy Ramirez Jr., 32, of Harlingen, TX, was arrested in 2020 by McAllen Police and charged with sexual assault for forcing one of his subordinates at work to perform oral sex on him.
08.01.2026 03:08 — 👍 379 🔁 151 💬 3 📌 8
Booking photo of Steven Charles Holmes
US Border Patrol agent Steven Charles Holmes, 33, of Arizona was convicted in 2023 of 11 felonies after strangling and raping several women.
08.01.2026 03:04 — 👍 524 🔁 250 💬 14 📌 9
Border Patrol Agent Harry Marvelle Peless III, 51, of Newport, MI in a Scout Leader uniform with a young Boy Scout whose face is blurred out
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Harry Marvelle Peless III, 51, of Newport, MI, was arrested in Jul 2025 after messaging an undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old girl.
Marvelle sent obscene material to and made requests for sexual activity to the person he believed was an underage girl.
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To date, Defendant Smithson has not been charged with any crime, and
remains free to work in a position of authority on the United States border, despite
confessing to the sexual assault.
20. Following the assault, Defendant IPD failed to submit Detective Orff s
case to the District Attorney's Office for over 100 days. This failure on the part of
IPD was the result of actions by Defendant Miguel Colon, Chief of Defendant IPD,
who made an active effort to interfere with the case.
21. Shortly after the sexual assault, Chief Colon called Detective Orff's boss
at the Brawley Police Department, and gave him the details of Orff's sexual assault.
During his conversation with Orff's boss, Chief Colon also accused Orff of being
immoral because of her sexual orientation. He further blamed Orff for being
victimized. In disclosing details about the assault that Detective Orff suffered, Chief
Colon violated Detective Orff's rights under the California Constitution, which grants
the victim of a crime the right to "be treated with fairness and respect for his or her
privacy and dignity, and to be free from intimidation, harassment, and abuse
throughout the criminal or juvenile justice process." Cal. Const. art. I, § 28(b)(1).
22. On or about May 16, 2016, Detective Orffs wife, Detective Kristol,
24 contacted IPD to get an explanation as to why Detective Orff's case had not been
25 submitted to the District Attorney. In response, Chief Colon contacted Detective
26 Kristol's boss, and began to divulge details of Detective Orff's assault to him and to
27 attack Detective Orff's character and fitness as an officer.
Border Patrol Agent Andrew Smithson of San Diego was arrested in 2016 after sexually assaulting Brawley Police Det. Kali Orff.
Orff woke up to find Smithson had pulled her pants down and was sexually assaulting her. She punched him in the face and called 911. Smithson was protected by local police.
08.01.2026 02:12 — 👍 500 🔁 206 💬 4 📌 8
Border Patrol Agent Scott James Rocky, showing his profile pic next to his booking photo
Customs and Border Protection officer Scott James Rocky, 57, of Center Line, MI was charged in Feb 2025 with possession of thousands of child sexual abuse images and videos.
FBI agents raided his home and found an external hard drive containing the videos, an FBI special agent wrote in an affidavit
08.01.2026 02:33 — 👍 514 🔁 232 💬 10 📌 14
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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9 deaths that we know about…..
27.01.2026 20:59 — 👍 150 🔁 115 💬 9 📌 13
If you're in that Signal chat, you should start posting excerpts from that NYTimes expose with all the FBI agents mocking him.
27.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 1594 🔁 373 💬 46 📌 8
Philly DA is clear about ICE committing crimes.
“I’ll charge you with those crimes, you’ll be arrested, you’ll stand trial, you’ll be convicted, whether it’s in state or federal court and you’ll do your time because DT cannot pardon you for a state court conviction. “
This is the energy we need….
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"No kings" above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
"No Kings" in bright lights above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
20.01.2026 21:58 — 👍 3823 🔁 1026 💬 62 📌 73
It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
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Keep shaming Trump for his micropenis.
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I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers.
I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.
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