mark fletcher, paralegal tracy jarvis, former a u. s. a is andrew young and bank ben cats in our former united states attorney, robert brewer. thank you all. i would now like to call f b. i special agent in charge of the san diego office, suzanne turner. so if we, i officials are holding a media briefing right now in san diego about the criminal thing and just giving more detail about how all this came about. just a reminder that 800 people have been arrested around the world in a global crime state. police had been saying that they detained hundreds of suspects and what they're describing a huge blow. busy for organized crime, i kinda joining us from washington listening in to that media briefing. mike, just give us the context to the story and tell us a little bit more about how this all came about and what the f b i is saying. well that's the new detail that the f b i has just released in the news conference and that is the origins of this investigation. we heard that back in 2015, a number of executives of a secure online app were ar

, — mark pletcher, paralegal tracy jarvis, former a usa's andrea young, and our— jarvis, former a usa'storney robert brewer. thank you all. iwould now like attorney robert brewer. thank you all. i would now like to call fbi special— all. i would now like to call fbi special agent in charge of the san diego— special agent in charge of the san diego office, suzanne turner. good — diego office, suzanne turner. good morning. i diego office, suzanne turner. good morning. lam diego office, suzanne turner. good morning. i am suzanne turner, special agent in charge of the san diego field office, and i want to thank randy grossman the acting us attorney for hosting us here today and our domestic and international partners who have joined and our domestic and international partners who havejoined us. today marks the culmination of more than five years of strategic innovative complex investigative work to disrupt and dismantle encrypted communication services that cater to the criminal elements across the globe. this is operation trojan shields. law enforcement actions in the recent days have not