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  "description": "Day 17 centered entirely on Brian Higgins, an ATF special agent with an office at Canton PD, who testified on direct about his social ties to the Albert family and his presence at 34 Fairview Road the night of January 28-29, 2022. Prosecutors used extensive text messages between Higgins and Read — spanning January 12-29 — to establish motive, showing Read expressing dissatisfaction with O'Keefe and pursuing a romantic connection with Higgins in the weeks before O'Keefe's death. On cross, Alan Jackson systematically dismantled Higgins's credibility: phone records showed a 2:22 a.m. call between Higgins and Brian Albert that Higgins initially denied and later attributed to a possible butt dial. Card access logs placed Higgins at Canton PD for most of January 29th — including time in the sallyport where Read's vehicle was later stored — while he made repeated calls to the Alberts and Chief Berkowitz. The cross concluded with Jackson establishing that Higgins had used a federal forensics kiosk to selectively extract only two text threads from his phone before removing its SIM card, discarding the components in separate dumpsters on a military base, and destroying the device despite a court preservation order.",
  "path": "/trial-1/day/17/",
  "publishedAt": "2024-05-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:vd3vzujxkxsthkswrc2zzupm/site.standard.publication/krt",
  "title": "Day 17 — Brian Higgins",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T13:28:24.184Z"
}