{"id":440642,"date":"2026-08-22T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440642\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:24:56","slug":"feds-confiscated-eric-swalwells-iphone-and-macbook-pro-document-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440642\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds confiscated Eric Swalwell\u2019s iPhone and Macbook Pro, document shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 20, 2026at11:21am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Federal authorities seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell\u2019s iPhone and MacBook Pro on Saturday, according to a search warrant obtained by The Standard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The warrant shows that the devices \u2014 which included a charging cable and wall charger \u2014 were seized at 8:25 p.m. on Saturday, though it does not specify the location. News outlets reported Thursday that Swalwell was searched Saturday at San Francisco International Airport, and his home in Washington, D.C., was raided Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The warrant was certified by Kyle R. Biebesheimer, an FBI agent in the San Francisco field office\u2019s Public Corruption and Civil Rights Squad, according to recently filed documents. The warrant was filed Aug. 13 in the Northern District of California and assigned to Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The Department of Justice, FBI, and Swalwell\u2019s attorney did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 20, 2026at11:21am Federal authorities seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell\u2019s iPhone and MacBook Pro on Saturday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7045,536,24115,1055,101,103,102,2531,104,106,105,36094],"class_list":["post-440642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-department-of-justice","tag-donald-trump","tag-eric-swalwell","tag-fbi","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sexual-assault","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-trump-vs-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}