Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme will take over as the chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of New York, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue announced in a recent staffwide email.

DuCharme has been with the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office since 2008, and most recently served as chief of the office’s national security and cybercrime section. He replaces the former criminal section chief, James Gatta.