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TONY MATTIVI, DIRECTOR OF THE KANSAS BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Mattivi
KBI Director Tony Mattivi served as a federal prosecutor for over 20 years, prosecuting drug trafficking, violent crime,
racketeering, organized crime, gangs, money laundering and terrorism cases.

Mattivi was the lead prosecutor for the capital case against the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the bombing of the USS Cole, in 2000. He also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice’s (USDOJ) Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Iraq, advising the Iraqi High Tribunal as they tried members of Saddam Hussein’s regime for
committing war crimes.

Director Mattivi led a team of prosecutors who convicted three Kansas militia members for plotting to slaughter Somali Muslim immigrants living and worshipping at an apartment building and mosque in Garden City. He also prosecuted Terry Lee Loewen, a former U.S. Marine who attempted to detonate high explosives at the Wichita airport on behalf of al Qaeda, and John T. Booker, who conspired to detonate a truck bomb at Fort Riley in support of ISIS.

Over the years, he also worked for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, the Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office, and as legal counsel for Medcor, an international healthcare company.

Mattivi is a graduate of Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Washburn University School of Law. He was the Antiterrorism and National Security Coordinator for the District of Kansas, and recently served as president of the Federal Bar Association chapter of Kansas and Western Missouri.

Attorney General Kris Kobach nominated Mattivi to be the 13th Director of the KBI, and he was confirmed by the Kansas Senate on February 9, 2023.

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Bradley Cox
Brad is a Post-Conviction Supervisory U.S. Probation Officer for the Western District of Missouri. He has served as the lead safety officer, firearms instructor, search team coordinator, and FLETC adjunct instructor.
Joel Cromwell
Joel is a Post-Conviction Supervisory U.S. Probation Officer with 23 years of probation experience. He serves as a Firearms and Safety instructor, Search Coordinator, and surveillance team member.
Ticia Eccardt
Ticia Eccardt began her career as a forensic chemist in 2012. She has assisted law enforcement with trainings, grow operations, clandestine laboratory responses and testified to her findings in local, state and federal courts.
Zane Hake
Zane Hake is a Team Leader for the USMS’ Kansas Fugitive Apprehension Task Force (KFATF) and is a former member of the USMS’ Special Operations Group (SOG). He currently serves as a USMS Tactical Training Officer (TTO) and Firearms Instructor (FI).
Koda Hendrix
Koda is a Supervising U.S. Probation Officer in the Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis Division. She oversaw the district's surveillance program & EMOSTA for fifteen years. Koda has received training in surveillance from FLETC the MCTC, the FBI, and the International Association of Undercover Officers.
Justin Hoffman
Justin specializes in Tactical Medicine and is a Nationally registered Advanced EMT.  Additionally, he has been an instructor on the dangers of fentanyl for the last five years.
Eric Kraus
Eric Kraus is a Sr. Analyst with the Lexis Nexis Special Investigations Unit. Eric retired after 28 years as a Special Agent with the California Department of Corrections assigned to his department’s elite Fugitive Apprehension Team in Orange County, CA.
Shaun Margul
Shaun Margul is a U.S. Probation Officer Specialist in the Eastern District of Missouri. He has thirteen years’ experience handling a patrol/narcotic K9 and has been on the Special Response Team for five years. Shaun is a field training officer, surveillance team member, Starr coach, intern coordinator, and LM specialist.
Christopher McFarlin JD, MS
Chris McFarlin is a former Deputy State Prosecutor from Little Rock, Arkansas.  He has over 18 years of law enforcement and legal service to our criminal justice system and currently serves as a Sergeant over the training, S.R.O and reserve units for a local police department.
Samantha Sierakowski
Ms. Samantha Sierakowski is a forensic chemist with the DEA’s North Central Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois. In 2020, Ms. Sierakowski began her career with the DEA as a Physical Science Technician at the Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Dulles, Virginia, where she performed reagent verifications, method validations, routine maintenance on various analytical instruments and assisted forensic chemists with sample preparations for evidence analysis.
Grant Sneed
Grant is a U.S. Probation Officer Specialist in the Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis Division. He is one of the district’s surveillance program’s coordinators. He is also one of the lead coordinators and evidence technician for the district’s Special Response Team.
Bryson Wheeler
Bryson has been a DEA Special Agent for approximately 8 years after completing the DEA Basic Agent Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  He is assigned to complex investigations involving drug trafficking organizations and is a member of the clandestine laboratory team.