{"id":441326,"date":"2026-08-23T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441326\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:29:03","slug":"eric-swalwell-confronted-by-fbi-at-san-francisco-airport-electronics-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441326\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Swalwell Confronted by FBI at San Francisco Airport, Electronics Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The FBI reportedly gave Eric Swalwell<\/a> quite the welcome home to California … meeting him at the airport and seizing his electronics.<\/p>\n

Agents were reportedly waiting when the former congressman landed at San Francisco International Airport Saturday … confronting him with a search warrant and taking his cell phone and other devices.<\/p>\n

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Swalwell reportedly cooperated, but the feds weren’t finished … agents reportedly showed up at his Washington, D.C. home Sunday with additional court-approved search warrants … seizing more potential evidence while neither Swalwell nor his wife, Brittany Watts, were home.<\/p>\n

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The searches allegedly are part of a federal criminal investigation<\/a> into sexual misconduct allegations against Swalwell.<\/p>\n

As TMZ previously reported, at least four women have accused Swalwell of misconduct … including a former staffer who alleged he raped her when she was too intoxicated to consent.<\/p>\n

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Another woman, Lonna Drewes<\/a>, publicly accused<\/a> Swalwell of drugging, choking and raping her.<\/p>\n

Swalwell has vehemently denied the sexual assault and misconduct allegations … though he has acknowledged making “mistakes in judgment” and apologized to his wife.<\/p>\n

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The scandal torpedoed Swalwell’s political career — he dropped his campaign<\/a> for California governor and resigned from Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, as we reported in May, Swalwell and Brittany were living separately<\/a> amid the fallout.<\/p>\n

Now the feds have reportedly gotten their hands on his phone and other electronics … as the investigation presses forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI reportedly gave Eric Swalwell quite the welcome home to California … meeting him at the airport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-441326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441326","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=441326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}