Special Agent Richard K. Lack, retired from the FBI in September 2004, after a career that spanned over 30 years. He is originally from Arkansas and according to others still maintains somewhat of a southern accent. He is currently employed by the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, performing Cold Case analyses and teaching. While with the FBI he had assignments at FBIHQ, Washington D.C., Alexandria, Virginia, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Palo Alto, California and the final almost 20 years in the Bureau were served within the Monterey Bay Resident Agency, San Francisco Division. From 1993 to retirement he was the Senior Resident Agent in charge of the Monterey Bay office. His investigative experience is vast within the criminal purview of FBI jurisdiction. He has extensive experience in bank robbery matters, and can qualify as an expert in bank robbery in Federal Court; he has vast experience in homicides; sexual assaults; kidnapping; fugitives; and child abductions.

Due to the location of the former Ft. Ord military base, a Federal Government enclave, within the Monterey area, he has extensive experience in many criminal matters not typically undertaken by the FBI. He has taught Interview and Interrogation since 1994 and has taught hundreds of local LEO and other Federal LEO entities, nationwide. He was also an Advanced Instructor in the FBI, teaching Instructor Development nationwide. Post 9/11, he was a member of the Terrorism Task Force within the San Francisco Division of the FBI. He was also a Field Training Agent for the FBI.

Mr. Lack has a BA Degree in Political/Science from the University of Central Arkansas. He has lectured and provided bank robbery training to hundreds of banks and financial institutions; he has lectured on Interview and Interrogation at the Santa Clara University Law School, Santa Clara, California; he has lectured on Terrorism and history of Islam; and he lectures on personal safety issues.

Contact Richard Lack through phone number: (831) 235-9099 or e-mail: LackR@co.monterey.ca.us and rgkk4@aol.com