Philly’s New Top FBI Agent Is Getting Too Old For This Stuff

This is what happens when you turn down the FBI’s offer to run their Detroit office: You get sent to Philly instead. Or at least, that’s what happened to Edward J. Hanko, who is coming here to be the special agent in charge for the FBI’s Philadelphia office. Hanko currently runs the FBI office in Southern Ohio—expected to retire from that posting. But after refusing an assignment to Detroit, he was commanded to pack his bags for Philadelphia. “You’re expected to serve where the division needs you,” Hanko told The Columbus Dispatch, sounding as though the new assignment has filled him with joy and confidence, or whatever the opposite of those things are. But at least he has the proper, Clint Eastwood-after-age-50 take on the business of law: “For me, it’s all about the service,” Hanko said. “And I hate bad guys.” [The Columbus Dispatch]