Lorenzo Benedict

Apply advanced mechanical access defeat techniques for clandestine entries, mastering lock decoding, key manufacturing, and manipulation of diverse lock families, to include pin tumblers and electronic systems. Utilize covert entry and search techniques against highly trained foreign adversaries to covertly gather evidence. Continually acquire proficiency in surreptitious techniques, change detection, and deception surveillance across various facilities and transportation modes.

• Coordinated over 200 authorized sensitive operations, ensuring seamless execution and rigorous compliance with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and criminal court requirements.
• Collaborated with case squads, tactical units, and multi-disciplinary teams to prepare for missions, verify execution plans, and determine tool requirements, adapting to evolving situations with problem solving acumen.
• Utilized sensitive techniques to bypass locking mechanisms for various residential and commercial locks. Decode combination locks utilizing optical, visual, and physical manipulation techniques with precision.
• Leveraged strong problem-solving skills and adaptability in high-pressure situations, responding to evolving, time-sensitive scenarios relating to national security.

Supervised and instructed at the FBI Tactical Emergency Vehicle Center (TEVOC), overseeing various tactical driving and vehicle pursuit courses, a fleet of several hundred high-performance and up-armored vehicles, a 1.5 mile tactical driving course, an urban tactical course, and a highly technical off-road course. Instructed in the Overseas Survival and Awareness Program (OSAP), teaching FBI employees being deployed to hostile environments on how to identify, deter, mitigate, and neutralize threats posed by foreign adversaries and bad actors.

• Supervised and instructed over 4,000 FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) New Agent Trainees utilizing current tactical driving styles in a highly safe and effective manner.
• Supervised and instructed over 3,000 special agents and support personnel in threat identification, tactical evasion, and offensive maneuvers to avoid physical harm or capture.
• Supervised and instructed various federal, state, and local tactical units in teaching tactical driving, to include the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT), ramming through barricades or threats, protective detail driving techniques, and other tactical vehicle interventions.

Utilized various investigative techniques to identify, investigate, arrest, and prosecute subjects of public corruption, frauds against the federal government, domestic terrorists attempting to disrupt or overthrow the federal government, and other violent offenders. Assigned to various law enforcement task forces, comprised of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, including the FBI Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Worked in conjunction with the United States Attorneys Office and the Illinois States Attorneys Office preparing for trials and the successful prosecution of criminal offenders.

• Planned, executed, and participated in approximately 200 arrests and search warrants.
• Coordinated with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in joint operations.
• Assisted in training new agents on proper investigative techniques and procedures.
• Executed search warrants and seized contraband items as evidence in cases.
• Testified at grand jury proceedings and court hearings related to criminal cases.
• Utilized advanced computer systems to access data on individuals of interest and generate investigative leads.
• Served subpoenas for documents and records related to investigation targets.
• Managed case files and documentation, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality and prepared detailed reports documenting all aspects of investigations.
• Interviewed witnesses and suspects to obtain information regarding criminal activities.
• Reviewed case files to identify evidence and determine the best investigative strategies.
• Monitored communications between suspected criminals via wiretaps, phone taps or other electronic devices.
• Developed new sources of intelligence through networking with other agents and contacts within the community.
• Gathered information from confidential informants, surveillance teams and other law enforcement agencies.
• Conducted background checks on potential employees for security clearance purposes.
• Attended meetings with prosecutors to discuss details of ongoing investigations.
• Provided expert advice on security and investigative matters to partner agencies and organizations.
• Collaborated with local, state, federal, and international law enforcement agencies to share intelligence and coordinate actions.

Gathered criminal evidence in hazardous environments as an operator on the FBI's Hazardous Evidence Response Team. Certified to enter hazardous crime scenes safely by utilizing Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and Level A personal protective equipment.

• Served as a first responder at the Pentagon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Worked daily 12 hour shifts for approximately two months in and around the Pentagon attack site. Gathered evidence and human remains in highly toxic and unstable environments.
• Conducted multiple high profile hazardous material searches relating to the anthrax and ricin biological attacks in the United States in 2001.
• Coordinated with various state and local first responders with conducting FBI hazardous material searches and the decontamination and mitigation of chemical biological threats.

Expert in conducting covert physical surveillance of sophisticated and highly trained foreign intelligence officers and subjects of national security and espionage investigations. Highly proficient in vehicle and on foot surveillance techniques in a variety of environments to establish patterns of life, collect evidence, identify dead drop sites, and identify other co-conspirators. Demonstrated exceptional problem solving skills, adaptability, and effective communication in high pressure and dynamically fluid situations. Expert in the coordination of 8-10 person covert surveillance teams through the use of encrypted radios, secure mobile phones, and discreet hand signals.

• Coordinated and conducted around the clock covert surveillance coverage of terrorism and espionage targets.
• Traveled throughout the United States on short notice and effectively set up and supervised surveillance operations in unfamiliar areas with minimal resources.
• Highly trained in covert surveillance techniques, including the use of disguises, camouflage, and demeanor changes.