FBI gains access to contents of Trump assailant’s mobile phone

Several days after the assassination of Donald Trump, the FBI announced that its agents gained access to Thomas Crooks’ cell phone.

According to international media reports, FBI agents accessed Thomas Crooks’ mobile phone, whom law enforcement officials have identified as the assailant of former US President Donald Trump, on July 14.

Initial operational efforts to unlock the phone were unsuccessful, and it was subsequently sent to the technology lab in Quantico to unlock the phone and obtain its data.