# James "Whitey" Bulger (FBI)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/fbi-whitey-bulger/

FBI image of James "Whitey" Bulger from the FBI's Boston field-office history, captioned with his arrest on June 22, 2011 in Santa Monica, California. A copy is stored here.

The FBI image repository titles this entry "James "Whitey" Bulger." Its caption, shortened here, reads: "Top Ten fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger was arrested ... on June 22, 2011 in Santa Monica, California, by agents on our Violent Crimes Task Force." The full caption also names a companion who is a living private person; this page does not repeat that name. The repository lists the file at 99 KB.

The FBI does not give a date for the photograph. Bulger's 1959 [Alcatraz warden's notebook page](/items/nara-236734663-whitey-bulger-alcatraz-1959/) is filed separately.

The copy shown here is the original file, downloaded from the FBI image repository on 12 October 2026.

## Sources

- Federal Bureau of Investigation: https://www.fbi.gov/image-repository/james-bulger.jpg/view
- FBI field office history: Boston: https://www.fbi.gov/history/field-office-histories/boston