Ronnie Sturch and Alan Pillow have been selected as new directors by the city of Jonesboro.
Sturch was selected by the 911 Intergovernmental Board to serve as E-911 director for Jonesboro and Craighead County. He has replaced Jeff Presley, who had been E-911 director since 2007.
Pillow was promoted by the Metropolitan Planning Organization of Jonesboro and Craighead County to director of the Northeast Arkansas Regional Transportation Planning Commission.
Director Christopher Wray has named James A. Dawson special agent in charge of the FBI’s Little Rock Field Office in Arkansas. Dawson most recently served as special agent in charge of the Criminal & Cyber Division of the Washington Field Office.
Dawson joined the FBI in 1999 as a special agent and worked on the Organized Crime & Drug Squad in the Milwaukee Field Office. Since then he has worked for the Kenosha Resident Agency, McAlester Resident Agency of the Oklahoma City Field Office and Muskogee Resident Agency in 2011, overseeing four offices in eastern Oklahoma.
In 2015, Dawson was promoted to assistant section chief of the Surveillance & Aviation Section in the Critical Incident Response Group, or CIRG, in which he served as national program manager of the FBI’s ground surveillance program.
In 2017, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge in the Criminal Division of the Washington Field Office before he returned to CIRG in 2018 as the section chief for the Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Section.
In 2019, he was promoted to special agent in charge of the Mission Services Division of the Washington Field Office before being transferred to the Criminal & Cyber Division in the office in 2020. Before joining the FBI he served as a surface warfare officer for the U.S. Navy.
Dawson graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1991.
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