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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
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tags:
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- Person
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- FBI
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- Philadelphia
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- OlneyHouseInvestigation
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alias:
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- Wayne A. Jacobs
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summary: "FBI special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office, a former counterintelligence section chief, who briefed with police on the Olney House Investigation in September 2026."
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location: "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
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relations:
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]"
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role: "special agent in charge, Philadelphia Field Office"
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start: 2003
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fn: 1
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- type: appointed
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with: "[[Christopher Wray]]"
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reverse: true
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fn: 1
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- type: investigated
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with: "[[Olney House Investigation]]"
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start: 2026
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fn: 2
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created: 2026-09-23
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updated: 2026-09-23
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---
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Wayne A. Jacobs is the special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], named by Director [[Christopher Wray]]. He appeared with Commissioner [[Kevin Bethel]] and Deputy Commissioner [[Frank Vanore]] of the [[Philadelphia Police Department]] at the briefing of September 16, 2026, on the [[Olney House Investigation]], and said that further search warrants were planned for the house on Chew Avenue.[^1][^2]
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### Career
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Jacobs was a trading systems analyst before joining the FBI as a special agent in 2003. He was assigned to the New York Field Office, where he worked on government and financial fraud and later violent crime and gangs. He became a supervisory special agent in the Criminal Investigative Division at headquarters in 2014, a violent gangs task force supervisor in [[Los Angeles]] in 2016, and assistant special agent in charge of the Mission Support Branch in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] in 2018. In 2020 he was promoted to section chief in the [[FBI Counterintelligence Division|Counterintelligence Division]] at headquarters, and in 2021 he became special agent in charge of the Criminal and Cyber Division of the Washington Field Office. He holds a bachelor's degree from the [[University of Delaware]] and a master's degree from [[Columbia University]].[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Wayne A. Jacobs Named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Philadelphia Field Office," press release. https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/wayne-a-jacobs-named-special-agent-in-charge-of-the-fbi-philadelphia-field-office
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[^2]: Sharber, Cory. "Police, FBI provide updates on Horsch missing women case," *WHYY,* September 16, 2026. https://whyy.org/articles/olney-home-investigation-abuse/
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