FBI Director Patel, 4 June 2026

You mess with our kids, and you WILL be caught!

Thank you to our partners in Ohio that helped facilitate Operation Playground Therapy. Together, we investigated health care companies in Ohio who offered community-based programs for Medicaid-enrolled children across the Southern…

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 4, 2026

… District of Ohio.

These companies allegedly passed children's Medicaid information to billing entities that submitted FRAUDULENT claims for behavioral health and mental health services that were NEVER provided. Total fraud of over $75M STOLEN from our children.

THEY HAVE BEEN FOUND AND WILL FACE JUSTICE!

This shows the best of this FBI when on Tuesday, June 2nd, a subject Anthony Scott Searles-Harris in Bakersfield, California barricaded himself in the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office armed with explosives and took ten innocent people hostage.

Immediately, FBI… pic.twitter.com/pUWkUZ55pL

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 4, 2026

… jumped into action mobilizing resources, including launching our CIRG Hostage Rescue Team – FBI’s elite tier 1 tactical unit – who flew across the country in the middle of the night preparing for a high-risk, life-saving mission. FBI Sacramento, FBI Los Angeles, and our teams across the country utilized more than 150 additional FBI personnel including SWAT, crises negotiators, Special Agent Bomb Technicians, and more.

After an intense nearly 15-hour negotiation, FBI HRT teams successfully breached the building around 4:30am local time, neutralized the subject, and safely recovered all hostages unharmed. This was simply outstanding work by the men and women of the FBI with our partners at the Bakersfield Police Department who executed the mission brilliantly and saved at least 10 lives in a situation that could’ve turned dire.