---
alias:
- Wayne A. Jacobs
category: Law Enforcement & Legal
created: 2026-09-23
location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
relations:
- fn: 1
  role: special agent in charge, Philadelphia Field Office
  start: 2003
  type: employed_by
  with: '[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'
- fn: 1
  reverse: true
  type: appointed
  with: '[[Christopher Wray]]'
- fn: 2
  start: 2026
  type: investigated
  with: '[[Olney House Investigation]]'
summary: FBI special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office, a former counterintelligence
  section chief, who briefed with police on the Olney House Investigation in September
  2026.
tags:
- Person
- FBI
- Philadelphia
- OlneyHouseInvestigation
updated: 2026-09-23
---

Wayne A. Jacobs is the special agent in charge of the Philadelphia Field Office of the [Federal Bureau of Investigation](/organizations/federal-bureau-of-investigation/), named by Director Christopher Wray. He appeared with Commissioner [Kevin Bethel](/people/kevin-bethel/) and Deputy Commissioner [Frank Vanore](/people/frank-vanore/) of the [Philadelphia Police Department](/organizations/philadelphia-police-department/) at the briefing of September 16, 2026, on the [Olney House Investigation](/events/olney-house-investigation/), and said that further search warrants were planned for the house on Chew Avenue.[^1][^2]

### Career

Jacobs was a trading systems analyst before joining the FBI as a special agent in 2003. He was assigned to the New York Field Office, where he worked on government and financial fraud and later violent crime and gangs. He became a supervisory special agent in the Criminal Investigative Division at headquarters in 2014, a violent gangs task force supervisor in [Los Angeles](/places/los-angeles/) in 2016, and assistant special agent in charge of the Mission Support Branch in Newark in 2018. In 2020 he was promoted to section chief in the Counterintelligence Division at headquarters, and in 2021 he became special agent in charge of the Criminal and Cyber Division of the Washington Field Office. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware and a master's degree from Columbia University.[^1]

[^1]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Wayne A. Jacobs Named Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Philadelphia Field Office," press release. https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/wayne-a-jacobs-named-special-agent-in-charge-of-the-fbi-philadelphia-field-office
[^2]: Sharber, Cory. "Police, FBI provide updates on Horsch missing women case," *WHYY,* September 16, 2026. https://whyy.org/articles/olney-home-investigation-abuse/