FBI Director Kash Patel announced the first major arrest since he was sworn in to lead the bureau. Patel took to X on Monday night to announce that the FBI’s Virginia Homeland Security Taskforce arrested dozens of MS-13 and other gang members.
Kash Patel will lead both the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after he was charged to head both by President Donald Trump.
Just days after taking his oath of office on a Hindu religious book, FBI Director Kash Patel was sworn in Monday as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Patel, the FBI director and newly appointed head of the nation’s top firearms regulator, is cozy with the most extreme flank of the gun rights movement.
Kash Patel is the ninth FBI director and, as an Indian American, the first person of color to hold the position. Patel is a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and was sworn into Trump's second administration in 2025.