LUIS S. FRATICELLI
SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE

Mr. Luis S. Fraticelli was born in 1961 in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Son of Puerto Rican parents, Mr. Fraticelli lived in several military installations during his childhood. In 1971 Mr. Fraticelli, his parents and a younger brother relocated to Puerto Rico.

Mr. Fraticelli received his high school diploma from the Gabriela Mistral Public School in Puerto Nuevo. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus in 1984. Mr. Fraticelli entered on duty with the FBI as a support employee in 1984. In 1986, he entered on duty as a Special Agent and following the training period, was assigned to the El Paso Division, where he predominately worked investigations relating to Counterintelligence, White Collar Crime, Violent Crime and Drug Trafficking.

In 1988 Mr. Fraticelli returned to Puerto Rico where he remained until 1995. During this period, he had investigative responsibilities in the areas of White Collar Crime, Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Special Operations. In 1995, Mr. Fraticelli was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent, Criminal Investigative Division FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

In 1997, Mr. Fraticelli was assigned to Phoenix, Arizona, where he supervised a drug trafficking "task force." In 2000, he was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, Mr. Fraticelli was in charge of 160 special agents and police officers assigned to Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, Violent Crime investigations, as well as National Infrastructure Protection/Computer Intrusion Programs and the North Texas Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.

In 2002 Mr. Fraticelli returned to FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., as a Section Chief in the Criminal Investigative Division. Over the past 18 months, Mr. Fraticelli served in various interim management positions. In October and November 2002 he served as the Acting Special Agent in Charge in Puerto Rico. In addition, he also had interim positions in FBI Headquarters such as Counterterrorism and Inspection Divisions, as well as in the newly created Office of Intelligence. Afterwards, Mr. Fraticelli became Chief of the Criminal Intelligence Section in Washington, D.C.

On April 12, 2004, the Director of the FBI, Robert S. Mueller, III., named Mr. Luis S. Fraticelli, who has approximately 20 years of service with the FBI, as Special Agent in Charge for Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands.