FBI Jacksonville’s Rachel Rojas named Assistant Director of Insider Threat Office

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Rachel Rojas, FBI Jacksonville Assistant Director, has been named assistant director of the Insider Threat Office at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The Insider Threat Office is the FBI’s central strategic coordinating component for all insider threat issues.

Rojas joined the FBI in 1996 as an investigative specialist for the New York Field Office. Following Sept. 11, 2001, she investigated financing data and communications tied to the terrorist attacks.

In 2005, Rojas was promoted to a supervisory special agent and transferred to the Terrorism Financing Operations Section of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters. In 2007 Rojas moved back to New York City where she oversaw the FBI’s applicant program. She later investigated mortgage and bank fraud.

Rojas was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of New York’s Criminal Division in 2012 where she was responsible for overseeing complex financial crime threats, public corruption, civil rights, health care fraud, and other issues, according to the FBI.

In 2013 Rojas was named assistant special agent in charge over New York’s Violent Criminal Threat Branch, managing the Safe Streets gang and violent crime task forces, bank robberies, fugitives, human trafficking, and other programs.

Rojas became the FBI’s first Latina special agent in charge when she was appointed to lead the Jacksonville Field Office in Florida in 2015.

“My time as Special Agent in Charge of FBI Jacksonville Division has been complex and incredibly rewarding. I am proud of my team for persevering through many recent challenges in their relentless pursuit of justice, and for working tireless[ly] everyday to protect communities across North Florida and beyond. While I will miss engaging our many law enforcement and community partners on a daily basis, I am certain the relationships we have forged will not waver. Thank you for allowing me to serve this great community,” wrote Rachel L. Rojas in a statement.

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