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Florida: Slain FBI agent remembered for protecting children
Read full article: Florida: Slain FBI agent remembered for protecting childrenAgents Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, and Daniel Alfin, 36, were gunned down Tuesday while serving a search warrant at the Broward County home of a child pornography suspect. The service for Schwartzenberger was held at the Miami Dolphins' football stadium. It's a job with high stress, high emotional toll and high burnout,” Wray said of the agent, who was originally from Pueblo, Colorado. She'd talk to anybody and everybody about protecting children from predators online.”Federal government officials who attended the service with Wray were Acting U.S. Attorney General Monty Wilkinson and President Joe Biden's Homeland Security Advisor Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. “During her 15 years as an FBI Special Agent, Laura Schwartzenberger was selfless, tireless, brave and committed to protecting some of society’s most vulnerable: its children,” Wilkinson said in statement.
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Slain FBI agents worked to protect children from abusers
Read full article: Slain FBI agents worked to protect children from abusersThese photo released by the FBI show agents Laura Schwartzenberger, left, and FBI agent Daniel Alfin. (FBi via AP)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – FBI Agent Daniel Alfin gained international attention when he led a team that shutdown a major worldwide child pornography website. “We are still reeling from the news,” said Shelley Allwang, director of the Exploited Children Division at National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. According to the FBI, 350 arrests were made in the U.S. and 548 internationally, including 25 producers of child pornography and 51 abusers. “Their reputation is on the line.”Attempts to reach the agents' families Wednesday were not immediately successful.
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FBI agents killed in Florida worked to protect children from abusers
Read full article: FBI agents killed in Florida worked to protect children from abusersFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – FBI Agent Daniel Alfin gained international attention when he led a team that shutdown a major worldwide child pornography website. “We are still reeling from the news,” said Shelley Allwang, director of the Exploited Children Division at National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The official could not discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. According to the FBI, 350 arrests were made in the U.S. and 548 internationally, including 25 producers of child pornography and 51 abusers. AP writer Curt Anderson in St. Petersburg, Florida, and AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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FBI agents killed while serving warrant in child exploitation case in Florida
Read full article: FBI agents killed while serving warrant in child exploitation case in FloridaTwo of the wounded agents were taken to hospitals to be treated and were in stable condition, said Miami FBI Agent Michael D. Leverock. Hours later, Sunrise Police urged residents of Water Terrace to remain inside their homes while law enforcement blocked the entrances to their community. The FBI agents had come to the apartment complex to serve a federal search warrant in connection with a case involving child pornography and violent crimes against children, according to Leverock and FBI Agents Association President Brian O’Hare. Law enforcement officials from numerous agencies lined up to pay their respects as a flag-covered body was removed from the vehicle and taken inside. Five other FBI agents were wounded in that shooting, which led the bureau to upgrade the weapons that agents carry.