Norwich – A Homeland Security special agent investigating international art theft who is a 1998 Norwich Free Academy graduate will return to the academy Friday to work with students and address the Friends of Slater Memorial Museum annual meeting later that evening.

Brent Easter, featured in 2015 in a Five Thirty Eight and ESPN Films Documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Jason Kohn about the largest bust of stolen and smuggled antiquities in U.S.. history, has been dubbed “the Real-Life Indiana Jones.”

As a student at NFA, Easter was captain of the swim team, a pianist and a history buff. On Friday, he will return to campus as a special agent with the Homeland Security Department’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. He works in the Cultural Property Division, and his specialty is investigating international art and antiquity theft.

In March, Easter was involved in the widely reported raid of the Nancy Weiner Gallery in New York City in a high-profile crackdown on illicit trade in ancient Asian art. Confiscated were a first-century red sandstone Kushan relief valued at $100,000, an eighth-century limestone sculpture of Shiva and Parvati valued at $35,000, and a 10th-century bronze Buddha from Thailand or Cambodia valued at $850,000.

Easter worked on the long-term project to stop Subhash Kapoor, a New York art dealer whose international, multimillion dollar smuggling ring obtained antiquities from temples and holy places in Southeast Asia and India and sold them to major museums in the world.

In his address as keynote speaker at the Friends of Slater Memorial Museum, Easter will talk about his work in the Middle East and Egypt. The program will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in Slater Auditorium and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

For more information, go to slatermuseum.org.