In May of 2015, an IA investigator blew the whistle on the interim head of DSD and the Captain in charge of the DSD IAB. The DSD created an office of Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) composed of half civilian members and half Sergeants from DSD. History has shown that the Denver Sheriff’s Department (DSD) has experienced many scandals dealing with corruption in their ranks. By 2017, Iriart’s family was experiencing health issues and she wanted to be closer to them so she quit DSS and moved to Denver, Colorado. While in New Orleans, she did criminal work and protected Prince Harry among several others that fell under DSS protection. She spent 2014-2016 in China, and her next assignment was to be a “high threat” posting but she had gotten “sick of the travel” and dwindling career diplomats that were occurring in DSS, so she transferred to the New Orleans DSS where she spent a year.
Iriart was the only person with crime scene experience in Beijing, which came in handy when a diplomat died. Her posting to Beijing was very challenging, occurring during the height of the South China Sea conflict. Iriart referred to her service at DSS as “globe trotting and watching history be made.” Iriart also coordinated President Obama’s trip to Beijing while she was posted at the Beijing embassy. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), which she noted was a “great organization, great people, with a lot of travel.” During her time working for DSS Iriart protected notable persons including the Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton, and Condoleezza Rice. She applied and eventually got hired with the U.S. After school, Iriart worked in a group home for at-risk youth, leading a juvenile sex offender rehabilitation program, but never forgot her goal of attaining a Special Agent job. Iriart used her GI bill to get both a Bachelors in Criminal Justice/Forensic Science and a Masters in Criminal Justice/Criminology at California State University (CSU), graduating in 2006 after four years. After leaving, she moved through school as quickly as she could. She saw strong female characters on that television program and thought to herself, “I want to be that.”Īt eighteen, Iriart joined the Navy where she served for four years. She often jokes that her wanting to be a Special Agent came from watching too many episodes of The X-Files. In High School, Iriart wanted to be a Special Agent, working in intelligence with the CIA, FBI or some other federal agency. Iriart went to Carbon High School in Carbon County, Utah, a coal mining area. Her family were Bask immigrants, with her dad being first generation American and her family considered blue collar.
Brittany Marie Iriart was born in Price, Utah to a father who was a farmer/cattle rancher and a mother who was a social worker.