Northeast Texas native B. Chad Yarbrough has been selected as the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, agency Director Christopher Wray announced.

Most recently, Yarbrough was a deputy assistant director in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Yarbrough replaces Matthew DeSarno who retired from the Dallas Field Office in October.

B. Chad Yarbrough is the new Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office.

Yarbrough joined the FBI as a special agent in 2006 and was first assigned to the Dothan Resident Agency of the Mobile Field Office in Alabama, where he investigated violent crime and crimes against children.

In 2010, he transferred to the Chicago Field Office. As a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, he investigated domestic terrorism matters.

Yarbrough was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2012 and worked in the Internal Investigations Unit of the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters. In 2014, Yarbrough was named supervisory special agent of the Mobile Field Office’s Violent Criminal Threats squad and also supervised Mobile’s Child Exploitation and Safe Streets task forces.

In 2017, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office, overseeing the criminal, crisis-management, and SWAT programs. Yarbrough led the FBI’s response to—and investigation of—the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue there.

He also had oversight of criminal and counterterrorism matters in the resident agencies in Pennsylvania that fell under the Pittsburgh Field Office.

Yarborough was promoted again in 2020, to section chief of the FBI’s National Threat Operations Section where he led more than 300 FBI employees receiving, analyzing, and processing tips from the public and private sector about allegations of federal criminal violations and threats to national security.

In 2021, Yarbrough was named deputy assistant director in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters, overseeing the Transnational Organized Crime, Violent Crime, and Operational Support sections.

Before joining the FBI, Yarbrough worked in the Fort Worth area as a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigative Division.

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