Vance Callender biography: 13 things about HSI agent from Royal Oak, Michigan

Vance R. Callender is a resident of Michigan, United States. He is Brooke Callender‘s husband.

Aside from Michigan, Vance has lived in other parts of the U.S. including Virginia, New York, Texas and Washington. Here are 13 more things about him:

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1. He has lived in different parts of New York including Massena and Brooklyn.
2. He has lived in different parts of Texas including Victoria and Ingleside.
3. He previously lived in Vienna, Fairfax County, Virginia and Addy, Stevens County, Washington.
4. He earned his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Texas State University in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas.
5. In 1995, he started working in federal law enforcement as a sheriff’s deputy in Victoria County, Texas,.
6. In 2001, he became a special agent with the U.S. Customs Service in McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas.
7. On December 22, 2009, he was a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 331, which crashed in Kingston, Jamaica during an attempted landing during a return flight from Miami, Florida, USA. He survived the plane crash.
8. In 2011, he and his wife Brooke sued American Airlines in federal court. The case was settled and dismissed in 2013.
9. In January 2020, he was appointed special agent in charge of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) department, overseeing federal investigations in Michigan and in Ohio, USA.
10. In July 2020, he and Brooke bought a home at the Royal Oak in Oakland County, Michigan for $566,000.
11. On January 28, 2022, authorities raided his house at the Royal Oak.
12. He was 49 years old when his Royal Oak house was raided on January 28, 2022.
13. He is “a highly decorated federal law enforcement official whose security and reputation are our top priority” and “some rumors about him online are incorrect,” his lawyer Nick Oberheiden told Detroit Free Press on February 1, 2022.