Dear halejrb-ga;
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.
As someone who has spent the last 20 years in the law enforcement
profession I have had some experience with members of the FBI and have
cooperated with them in some of their investigations over the years.
In every instance in which an arrestee was involved the FBI agents
came to the location where the person was being detained. Personally,
I have never seen them take physical custody of a prisoner and
transport them to another location for questioning. As a general rule,
all law enforcement officials will conduct their interrogations, or at
least their initial interrogations, at the location that has IMMEDIATE
jurisdiction wherein the offense occurred. That is to say that if a
person were to commit a Federal Offense in Smith County (fictional
location), he would be transported to Smith County Detention Facility
for initial processing and detention. The FBI would be contacted and
any initial questioning would take place by an FBI agent at the Smith
County Detention Facility. The violation of federal statutes does not
necessarily constitute or require the physical transportation of an
accused to a federal facility. In fact, in some case, such a movement
could jeopardize a case on technical grounds due to the lack of
extradition authority etc. In time, however, when the case is fully
assumed by the FBI and authority for extradition (if necessary) is
obtained, suspects are frequently moved to the nearest Federal
Detention Center. In your hypothetical scenario, the suspect may be
transported to one in or near Washington, DC, but it is unlikely that
it would be in the Hoover Building itself. A couple of more likely
places might be FPC Alderson, in Alderson, West Virginia or FCI
Beckley, in Beaver, West Virginia 25813.
I refer you to these high profile spy cases, in order to corroborate
this information, in which the accused was detained at a local
jurisdictional facility:
“Trofimoff denies he spied for Soviets”
(“Trofimoff currently is being held without bail in the Hillsborough
County jail in Tampa. A trial date has been tentatively set for Aug.
7.”)
http://www.pstripes.com/ed070200c.html
“Immigration official charged with spying”
(“Mariano Faget was being held at the Federal Detention Center in
Miami and was to appear in court Friday, the FBI said in a
statement.”)
http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/2000/feb/02-18-2000/news/06.html
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Best regards;
Tutuzdad-ga
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“Trofimoff denies he spied for Soviets”
http://www.pstripes.com/ed070200c.html
“Immigration official charged with spying”
http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/2000/feb/02-18-2000/news/06.html
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Clarification of Answer by
tutuzdad-ga
on
23 Dec 2002 20:51 PST
For security reasons, the FBI would only say that Robert Hanssen, who
was caught spying in Washington DC, was “being held at an undisclosed
location”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1362506.stm
Though your additional questions would lead to more extensive research
unrelated to your original suggestion, I should point out that John
Lee Malvo, one of the recently accused but not convicted suspects in
the serial sniper murders was held on Federal charges in the Fairfax
County Jail where FBI agents questioned him extensively. They did not
transport him to the Hoover Building. He was not charged with spying,
of course, but the same kind of situation exists in that he is being
held on Federal charges.
As for your facility questions, FPC Alderson, in Alderson, West
Virginia is a minimum-security facility for women, while FCI Beckley,
in Beaver, West Virginia is a medium security facility for men. Both
have maximum-security lockdown capacity for those in need of such
detention on a temporary basis.
If you have other questions you’d like post that require additional
research please feel free to do so. This way each question can be
researched and addressed separately so as to ensure that it gets the
proper attention.
I hope I have been able to give you all the information you need.
Regards
Tutuzdad-ga
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