Ex-FBI Agent Charged After Arrest at CIA

A former FBI special agent accused of trying to "gate crash" the CIA and making violent threats against security officers there was charged Tuesday with forcible assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding and intimidating CIA agents, a misdemeanor.

Tunisia Davis did not appear at a court hearing late Tuesday. The judge in federal court in Alexandria said she was not cooperating, that there was significant difficulty getting her out of U.S. marshals’ custody and into her chair, and that significant force would’ve been needed.

The judge said the charges were serious and ordered a mental health exam.

"Clearly there are issues about whether she's competent" for trial, the judge said.

Last Thursday, Davis drove to the entrance of the NSA in Maryland, was turned away, then tried to enter the front gate of the CIA, a CIA investigator said.

Court records indicate Davis told NSA officers about plans to test the security at the CIA. NSA officers issued a "be on the lookout" order to police after their encounter with Davis, according to the court affidavit.

An officer at the CIA had to physically stand in front of Davis' car before she stopped, according to court records. She reached toward an officer’s gun belt and later threatened to shoot CIA police, according to court records.

Davis’ Facebook page includes many videos she recorded of herself. In some of them she's deeply critical of the federal government, sometimes vulgar. The page was taken down after News4 broke the story Monday night

At her Alexandria apartment complex, friends said Davis was a kind woman but often protested police conduct and the federal government. Her landlord said he was surprised in mid-April when Davis notified him she was ending her lease April 30, the same day she allegedly tried to enter the CIA gate.

Davis, an FBI agent from 2004 to 2010, will have a psychological evaluation later this week.

The FBI is not commenting.

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