Biography

Adam Colby has been in law enforcement for over twenty-four years. He has served as a Highway Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, SWAT, and as part of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. In 2016, he was selected to command the Tyler Police Departments’ Financial Crimes Unit. In this role, he helped to target transnational organized crime as part of the United States Secret Services, North Texas Financial Crimes Task Force. In 2017, the Tyler Police Department’s Financial Crimes Unit became one of the first in Texas to build large cases for Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity related to card skimming. These cases resulted in numerous offenders receiving decades in prison with two defendants receiving life sentences. In 2019 he was asked to testify at the Texas State Capitol on organized crime and card skimming. He testified in front of the Texas Legislature multiple times and collaborated with several others to help make changes to the Texas Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure. These changes were enacted as laws on September 1st, 2019. The new laws specifically addressed card skimming and counterfeit credit cards, streamlining investigation and prosecution. In 2021, he retired from the Tyler Police Department to accept a new position as the first Director of the Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center. The center was established by the Texas Legislature in May of 2021 and opened its doors in October of that same year. The center is tasked as the primary repository for criminal intelligence related to organized financial crime, as well as coordinating statewide investigations related to these crimes. This includes organized crime related to gas pump skimming and fuel theft, ATM skimming, Point of Sale Skimming, ATM Jackpotting, and much more. The center also acts as the primary liaison between law enforcement and the financial, fuel, and retail sectors. In September of 2024 he testified in front of the Texas Senate Committee for Criminal Justice on the Lieutenant Governors Interim Charge related to the proliferation of organized financial crime in Texas. In the latest Texas legislative session, which ended in May of 2025, he helped to write numerous bills, with eight of them enacted as law. To date, the Texas FCIC has prevented, intercepted, or recovered in excess of three hundred and sixty million dollars’ worth of loss related to organized financial crime. 

Adam Colby has a BA in American History with a minor in criminology. He served in the United States Army with twelve years of service between active and reserve duty. He was deployed to Iraq in 2004 as part of a special operations unit and participated in over one hundred combat missions.