353: Phil Partin and Derick Smith – Missing Teen Girl, CAST

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In this episode, retired agent Phillip Partin and Lubbock Police Detective Derick Smith review an abduction case where the subject threatened to expose explicit photos of a 14-year-old missing teen and harm her family, to coerce her to leave Texas and travel to Michigan with him.

The FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST) was called in to assist with the case. By tracking their phones, the unknown male abductor was identified and captured, and the teen recovered and returned home to her family. Lubbock Police Department Detective John Bentley, an FBI Innocent Images Task Force task force officer, worked with Phil and Derick on this missing teen investigation. The subject, Thomas John Boukamp, was convicted on 16 counts of stalking and sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison.

Special Agent (Retired)

Phillip Partin

1/1997 – 1/2021

Phil Partin served in the FBI for 24 years.

He began his law enforcement career as a police officer with the Midland Police Department prior to joining the FBI. Phil’s first assignment was to the Atlanta Division, where he worked on a gang squad and served on the SWAT Team. In 2004, he was transferred to the El Paso Field Office’s Midland RA, where he formed and served as Safe Streets Task Force Coordinator, using sophisticated techniques and being the affiant of several wire intercept cases. He was also the case agent on a major RICO investigation. He was deployed overseas to Djibouti (Horn of Africa) and Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Later in his career, he was appointed as a supervisory special agent for Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal at CJIS, then Unit Chief of the CJIS Division Intelligence Group. In 2015, he was appointed to the Lubbock RA in the Dallas Division, where Phil formed and supervised the Innocent Images Task Force. Since his retirement from the FBI in 2021, Phil is an administrator for the Texas Anti-Gang Center in Lubbock, Texas.

Lubbock PD Detective

Derick Smith

2013 – Present

Derick Smith is a graduate of Lubbock Christian University and a 12-year veteran of the Lubbock Police Department in Lubbock, Texas. He spent the first years of his career in the Patrol Division, serving on various shifts and special units, including the Field Training Officer program, Bike Patrol and the Special Response Group before being promoted to the rank of detective in 2019. His first assignment was to the Special Victims Unit of the Investigations Division, where he primarily investigated Domestic Violence cases.

He was transferred to the Crimes Against Children squad in January 2021, where he learned more about these unique cases and gain training and experience related to investigating internet crimes involving children.

He currently serves as a member of the Lubbock Police Department ICAC Unit, the Dallas ICAC Task Force, and is a former Task Force Officer for the FBI Violent Crimes Against Children unit.