Gregory Bovino Age, Family, Biography

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Age: 55 Years

Hometown: California, U.S.

Marital Status: Married

Gregory Bovino

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Gregory Kent Bovino
Profession	Law Enforcement Officer
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Blue
Hair Colour	Salt & Pepper
Career
Operation(s)	• Midway Blitz • Safeguard • Charlotte's Web • Metro Surge • Salvo
Personal Life
Date of Birth	27 March 1970 (Friday)
Age (as of 2025)	55 Years
Birthplace	San Bernardino County, California, U.S.
Zodiac sign	Aries
Nationality	American
Hometown	California, U.S.
School	Watauga High School, North Carolina, U.S (1988)
College/University	• Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina • Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
Educational Qualification(s)	• Graduation from Western Carolina University (1993) • Postgraduation from Appalachian State University
Religion	Christianity
Food Habit	Non-vegetarian
Controversies	• In January 2026, he faced criticism for defending agents who shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis during protests. Bovino claimed that Pretti intended to "massacre" law enforcement." A bystander video later challenged that claim. • In February 2026, reportedly, Bovino made antisemitic remarks toward a Jewish federal official. The incident happened on a planning call.
Social Media	• Instagram • Facebook • Twitter
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Family
Parents	Father- Michael (Mike) Bovino (businessman) Mother- Betty Bovino
Siblings	Brother- 1 Sister- Natalie

Gregory Bovino

Some Lesser Known Facts About Gregory Bovino

Gregory Bovino was born into an Italian-American family.

In 1909, his great-grandparents moved from Calabria to Pennsylvania and became U.S. citizens in 1927.

In 1972, his parents moved to Blowing Rock, North Carolina, from Pennsylvania.

In 1981, his father, Michael (Mike) Bovino, who ran a bar, crashed his truck into a woman’s car. He was drunk, and the accident killed the woman.

Michael then served four months in prison and had to sell the bar as the family suffered financial problems.

After three years, Gregory Bovino’s parents divorced, and his mother received custody of her three children.

A childhood picture of Gregory Bovino

Since childhood, he was inspired by the books written by former agents and the 1982 film The Border, starring Jack Nicholson. He did not like that the agents were portrayed in a negative role in the film.

Once, during a media interview, his sister narrated his passion to join the border police force since he was eleven years old. She said,

Greg was so psyched because he loved the toughness and the values of all these old-timers. Then he watched it, and the Border Patrol person was a criminal. Greg came home totally pissed about it. Since then, he was like, ‘Dude, I want to do Border Patrol.”

During his school days at Watauga High School in Boone, N.C., Gregory Bovino participated in many wrestling championships, but was not a good wrestler; however, his teammates claimed that he improved his performance in his senior year.
Gregory Bovino during his school days

During his period at Western Carolina University, he appeared on the dean’s list in 1991.

After that, Gregory Bovino enrolled in the Leader Development and Assessment Course at Fort Lewis.

After completing his postgraduate studies at Appalachian State University, he joined the Boone Police Department.

In 1996, Gregory Bovino joined the United States Border Patrol and started his training in Class 325 at the Border Patrol Academy.

After completing the training, he worked in the El Paso, Texas, sector, where he served as a field operations supervisor in the city’s tactical unit.

In 2004, Gregory Bovino started working in the Yuma, Arizona sector.

In December 2008, he became the assistant chief of the Yuma sector headquarters. That same month, he was promoted to patrol agent in charge of the Blythe, California, station.

In 2010, Gregory Bovino led a three-day operation to raid airport and bus stations in Las Vegas. The operation was stopped within one hour of criticism from Harry Reid, a Senator from Nevada.

Gregory Bovino (middle) during an operation

In August 2019, he was designated as chief of the Border Patrol in the New Orleans sector.

In March 2021, Gregory Bovino was promoted to the position of chief of the El Centro, California, sector.

He served in the position till August 2023.

When Joe Biden’s presidency was near to an end, Gregory Bovino conducted operations in the Central Valley that arrested dozens of people.

After that, his actions during the Operation Return to Sender in Kern County were ruled illegal by a federal judge.

During the second presidency of Donald Trump, Gregory Bovino operated immigration policy efforts in California.

In June 2025, he supervised a big raid in Los Angeles as a tactical leader. These raids caused protests all over the city.

In July 2025, Gregory Bovino was ordered to obey a court order by acting U.S. attorney Michele Beckwith, who got fired after the statement.

In September 2025, he said in a media conversation that he would retire at the age of 57 and return to North Carolina to harvest apples.

That same month, Gregory Bovino was designated to lead Operation Midway Blitz, which was started by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago.

Gregory Bovino outside the Broadview ICE Facility in September 2025

Gregory Bovino then played an important role in the Los Angeles and Chicago campaigns through various social media platforms. During these campaigns, a man allegedly asked someone to kill Bovino.

During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said that border patrol officers prevent crime by being there like a police officer.

In October 2025, after a dispute with protesters in Chicago, he threw a tear gas canister at them. His video went viral, and many people in a lawsuit claimed that Gregory Bovino broke a court order against using tear gas by immigration agents.

Gregory Bovino, with his officers, while throwing a tear gas canister at protesters in Little Village, Chicago

Judge Sara L. Ellis scolded Bovino and ordered him to report daily on the use of force by Border Patrol. After that, an appeals court received a stay on that order.

In October 2025, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem called Gregory Bovino a “commander at large” of the Border Patrol in an op-ed.

Reportedly, this rank was not legally applicable.

After that, Gregory Bovino started working outside the command structure of Border Patrol and reported directly to Kristi Noem.

During this period, he helped in reorganising ICE with Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, who advises Noem.

In November 2025, Judge Sara L. Ellis extended her temporary restraining order against ICE for their use of tear gas and pepper balls. She said that Gregory Bovino lied under oath about threats from protesters and reporters.

He participated in the operations in Charlotte, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Renée Good, an American citizen, was killed during an operation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The incident later sparked protests.

In January 2026, after Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was killed in Minneapolis protests, Gregory Bovino claimed in the media that Pretti planned “maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

He supported the Border Patrol officer who shot Pretti.
A wreath surrounds an image of Alex Pretti at the makeshift memorial near the site where he was shot by federal agents, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, on 26 January 2026

Gregory Bovino claimed that Pretti approached agents with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and violently resisted when officers tried to take the gun from him.

However, a video by a bystander contradicted his statements. In the video, Pretti was seen holding a phone after an officer shoved a woman and was detained.
Alex Pretti while holding a phone during a conversation with an officer

On 26 January 2026, two days after Pretti’s death, the Trump administration privately planned to shift Gregory Bovino out of Minneapolis.

That same day, a media outlet reported that he was dismissed as commander-at-large and would return to El Centro, California.

Another media house wrote that Gregory Bovino would resume duties as sector chief.

A statement from the Department of Homeland Security denied the claims that he was dismissed.

After that, some high-ranking Customs and Border Protection officials cancelled Gregory Bovino’s social media access.

A media house then reported that he would regain access to all of his social media IDs after returning to El Centro.

In January 2026, Gregory Bovino’s pictures in a green greatcoat went viral, after which German media and social media users called it a ‘Nazi aesthetic.’
Gregory Bovino posing in a green greatcoat with his colleagues

California Governor Gavin Newsom used the video to reject claims that accusations of fascism against the Trump administration were exaggerated.

Derek Guy, a menswear writer, said that the coat was not like the German M40 overcoat from Kriegsmarine officers. It referenced the militarisation of immigration enforcement, like Operation Wetback.