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Former DHS/HSI Attaché Sandie Bostick, born December 15, 1960, was a Supervisory Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (DHS), Office of International Affairs. Agent Bostick graduated from Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas, in 1984 with a Bachelors Degree in Journalism and Investigative Reporting. Agent Bostick joined the US Customs Service as a Customs Inspector in 1992, and served in Eagle Pass, Texas. In 1997, Agent Bostick promoted to the position of Special Agent, and served in this capacity in Baltimore, Maryland, and Del Rio, Texas. From 2003 through 2009, Agent Bostick served as the Supervisory Special Agent of Field Operations for the Del Rio HSI Field Office. This included supervising the Del Rio HITDA Task Force, which was comprised of 25 federal and state narcotics agents. Agent Bostick transferred to the Office of Professional Responsibility (Internal Affairs and Investigations), San Antonio, Texas, in 2009, where he specialized in sensitive / high-level corruption and employee misconduct investigations.

In May 2011, Agent Bostick assumed the position of DHS/HSI Attaché, Moscow / Central Asia. Agent Bostick supervised all HSI investigative activities in the countries of Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The Attaché Moscow is a sub-office under the HSI Attaché Vienna, Austria office, which including the Attaché Moscow AOR, is comprised of 26 countries. Agent Bostick regularly contributed to HSI investigative operations in Eastern European countries under the Regional Attaché, Vienna. Throughout his career as a federal investigator, Agent Bostick conducted and supervised extensive and complex investigations into smuggling and money laundering organizations that have resulted in the arrests and convictions of over seven hundred felons, and the seizures and forfeitures of millions of dollars worth of illegally obtained assets. Agent Bostick has also received numerous performance awards through out his career, and was noted by Federal District Judge Allia Moses as, "The last federal agent any smuggler wants to see in his rearview mirror".

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