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Please join FBI Hostage Negotiators for a riveting Hostage case presentation involving a volatile man with a grudge against the government who boarded a school bus, killed the driver, and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy and held him by force in an underground bunker. This underground bunker hostage incident lasted seven days and was one of the most difficult and dangerous hostage cases resolved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The meeting will also include retired FBI Special Agent and Crisis Negotiator, Paul Cox who now represents NYA International (NYA.)  NYA is a global risk and crisis management consultancy. Since 1990 NYA has helped organizations to maximize opportunities and operate successfully in challenging environments around the world. NYA enables their clients to understand, reduce and manage the risks to their employees, assets and operations. In the event of a crisis, NYA deploys their response consultants to provide advice and support for a successful resolution.

The meeting will be held on June 21, 2017 from 1:00pm – 4:00pm at the Cisco Blue Ridge Conference Center (building 5), 7025 Kit Creek Road, Morrisville, NC 27560.  Registration for this meeting will be open later this week.

Alabama Underground Bunker Hostage Incident:

On January 29, 2013, a hostage crisis, lasting almost seven days, began in Midland City, Alabama. Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran, boarded a school bus and told the driver that he wanted to take two children from the bus. The school bus driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland, Jr., refused to let him take the children and blocked access to the aisle of the bus while Dykes continued to argue with him.  Dykes fired five shots, killing Poland, and left the bus taking Ethan Gilman, a five-year-old student from Midland City Elementary School, with him. Dykes took Ethan to a 6-foot by 8-foot underground bunker on his property. Dykes’ bunker was equipped with a ventilation pipe. Hostage negotiators used the pipe to communicate with Dykes. Police cooperated with Dykes in an attempt to obtain Ethan’s release and to bring the situation to a favorable conclusion. On February 4, 2013, the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team breached the roof of the bunker using explosive charges after negotiations began to break down. The agents threw stun grenades into the bunker before exchanging gunfire with Dykes, killing him, and rescuing the boy. Two improvised explosive devices were discovered near the bunker, one inside the PVC pipe, the other inside the bunker.

Biography:  Tim C. Healy, FBI.  Mr. Healy entered on duty with the FBI as a Special Agent in March 2009, and following training was assigned to the Little Rock Field Office, where he conducted Counterintelligence investigations and served as the Crisis Negotiation Coordinator (CNC).  Presently, SA Healy is assigned to the Charlotte Division – Fayetteville, NC Resident Office and investigates Violent Crimes and Major Offenders.  SA Healy is the Charlotte Division CNC, and a FBI Adjunct Instructor in Crisis Negotiations and Interviewing and Interrogation.  He is a member of the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit Field Office Deployment Program.  SA Healy has participated in international and U.S. crisis/hostage negotiation incidents.  Prior to joining the FBI, Tim served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.  SA Healy has a Master’s Degree in Forensic Psychology from Argosy University.


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