Episode 033: Jane Rhodes Wolfe – Puffer Fish Poison Threat

In this episode, retired agent Jane Rhodes Wolfe is interviewed about a suspicious activity report which resulted in the investigation of an attempted purchase of a restricted toxin, known as the puffer fish poison case.

During the case review, she also provides tips for the public regarding potential threat indicators of suspicious activities that should be reported to law enforcement.

Jane Rhodes Wolfe served 20 years with the FBI. Early in her career, she was assigned to the New York Field Office, where she worked financial investigations.

As a member of the Evidence Response Team (ERT), a collateral duty, she was deployed to Yemen following the bombing of the USS Cole, and, on 9/11, responded to the World Trade Center attacks and aided victims.

Jane became a member of the PENTTBOM investigative team and also worked on the investigation of terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. In addition to management assignments at FBI Headquarters in Congressional Affairs and the Inspection Division, Jane began to concentrate on national security matters.

When Jane supervised the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Chicago, she oversaw the intake and analysis of suspicious activity reports and her squad was responsible for responding to tips from the public regarding threatening activity, such as the one received about an attempted purchase of a restricted puffer fish poison toxin. Jane’s last assignment, prior to her retirement, was Section Chief of the Exploitation Threat Section, Counterterrorism Division.

Section Chief (Retired)

Jane Rhodes Wolfe

2/4/1996 – 3/31/2016

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The following are links to several newspaper articles about the Puffer fish poison case and related images:

FBI: Fake doctor held in toxin Sting

“Puffer Fish Poisoning” WMD investigation in Chicago

Man who bought puffer fish toxin sentenced in plot to kill wife

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Jane in 2010 speaking at an event at FBI Headquarters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jane and colleagues dressed in Tyvek protective suits at the crime scene of a case she worked on in Miami in 2002. During the puffer fish poison case the evidence team took similar precautions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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While assigned to the investigation of the terrorist attack against the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in October 2000, Jane (standing in doorway) and colleagues traveled to the site via boat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerri Williams

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Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, jokes that she writes about the FBI to relive her glory days. After 26 years with the Bureau specializing in major economic fraud and corruption investigations, she calls on her professional encounters with scams and schemers to write police procedurals inspired by true crime FBI cases in her Philadelphia FBI Corruption Squad crime fiction series featuring flawed female FBI agent Kari Wheeler. Jerri’s FBI for Armchair Detectives nonfiction series enables readers to discover who the FBI is and what the FBI does by debunking misconceptions about the FBI in books, TV, and movies. Her books are available as ebooks, paperbacks, and audiobooks wherever books are sold. She’s also the host of FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime podcast with more than 300 episodes available on all popular podcast apps and YouTube.

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