Steve Cook

Steve is a Detective with the Independence, Missouri Police Department. Steve has been a Police Officer for ten years, with over six and a half years experience at the Jackson County Drug Task Force and has completed assignments with the DEA Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Team where he assisted in the dismantling and processing of over 350 methamphetamine labs and the FBI Violent Crime Gang Task Force. Steve has actively worked motorcycle gangs for the past ten years. Steve has trained numerous agencies on run enforcement and has been on details for four Hells Angels USA Runs. Steve is very experienced in methamphetamine conspiracy investigations and to date has been the case agent in the Federal prosecutions of over 150 methamphetamine manufacturers and distributors in the Western District of Missouri. Steve has extensive undercover experience and was the case agent and a secondary undercover in an outlaw motorcycle gang infiltration case conducted in Missouri and Kansas. In 2003 Steve was sent to Kosovo by the Department of Justice to teach Prosecutors and Judges how undercover and sensitive operations are conducted. Steve is also a recipient of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Distinguished Service Award.

Ken Crow

Ken is a Sgt. with the Seattle, Washington Police Department and has over 37 years of law enforcement experience. Ken is currently the supervisor of the Arson/Bomb squad, supervising a squad of detectives that investigate arsons, explosions and related incidents. Ken is considered an expert in locating and identifying bombs and other explosive devices including booby traps. Ken has conducted over 200 training sessions dealing with bombs and explosive devices to law enforcement, public and private entities.

Harry Fagel

Harry is a Detective in the Narcotics Section of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Harry has 10 years of Law Enforcement experience, with the last four years working vice and narcotics. Harry as been a guest lecturer at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) speaking on "women and crime", "vice investigations in Las Vegas", and "courtroom preperation and testimony". Harry is the author of "Street Talk" (Zeitgeist Press 1999) and has been a guest columnist with the Las Vegas Weekly and the Las Vegas City Life newspaper.

Pat Fielding

Pat is a Detective with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and has over 18 years of law enforcement experience. Pat has been assigned to several narcotics, gang, and criminal intelligence units, including a HIDTA group, FBI Task Force, and a Club Drug Task Force and is currently assigned to a Money Laundering group. Pat has worked undercover for 16 years investigating money laundering, arms and explosives dealers, auto-theft rings and conducting storefront operations. Pat infiltrated the Red Demons (A Hells Angels Farm Club) and rose to the rank of Treasurer during a six-month undercover investigation.

Orestes Guerra

Detective, Henderson, Nevada Police Department with over 14 years of law enforcement experience. Orestes began his career with the Oakland, California Police Department where he was assigned to an ATF Gun Task Force, buying guns in an undercover capacity from street gang members. While at Oakland Police Department Orestes received a Medal of Merit for solving a Police Officers murder. Orestes has worked undercover for the last seven years and has completed an assignment with a HIDTA Major Drug Trafficking Organization Task Force and is currently assigned to a Club Drug Task Force. Orestes is highly experienced in working high risk undercover operations dealing with violent individuals.

Antonio Marciante

Antonio is an 11-year veteran of the North Miami Beach Police Department and is currently a detective assigned to the Vice, Intelligence, and Narcotics Unit. Antonio has also been a member of the North Miami Beach SWAT Unit for the past ten years and is currently the team leader. Antonio has also completed a three year assignment with the departments Tactical Unit and a four year assignment on the K-9 Unit. Antonio is an MP-5 instructor, Taser instructor, Firearms instructor, and defensive driving instructor and has also completed instructor development courses for Tactical Team, Tactical Shooting, and Law Enforcement Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction. Antonio's assignments have allowed him to participate in all facets of narcotics work from undercover buys to tactical takedowns.

Paul Martino

Paul is a Detective Sgt. with the Nevada Department of Public Safety, currently assigned to an ICE and HIDTA Money Laundering and Asset Removal Task Force in Las Vegas. Paul has 23 years of Law Enforcement experience and has completed assignments with the Major Drug Trafficking Organization Task Force, Interdiction Combined Enforcement Task Force, Tri-County Narcotics Task Force, Major Crimes Unit, Special Operations and Response Team, and as a Deputy Coroner. Paul specializes in Crime Scene Investigation, Death investigation, Sexual Assault and Sexual Exploitation of Children, Nuclear/Chemical and Biological Response, Financial Investigations and Asset Removal, Special Weapons and Tactics, and Narcotics Investigations.

Chris Matthews

Chris is a 16-year member of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and currently assigns to the Air Support section as a pilot. Chris spent approximately eight years assigned to SWAT as an assaulter and sniper where he was a senior instructor in several subjects including: firearms, tactics, climbing/fastrope, defensive tactics, and EVOC. He also has worked as an investigator in Gang Enforcement and Problem Solving/COP units. Chris is also currently a senior firearms instructor for his department as well as a rangemaster at a major firearms training facility in the southwestern U.S.

Don Reynolds

Don has been a police officer with the North Miami Beach Police Department for 14 years and completed a five year assignment with the Vice, Intelligence & Narcotics unit. Don also participated on a state wide narcotics and money laundering task force that seize over 27 million dollars in 1998. Don has extensive experience in cocaine trafficking cases, indoor marijuana grow and crack cocaine investigations. He currently teaches firearms and law enforcement driving courses at the Miami-Dade Criminal Justice Academy and for the North Miami Beach Police Department.

Jeff Seever

Detective , Independence, Missouri Police Department with over 11 years of law enforcement experience. Jeff spent nine years on a multi-agency Drug Task Force and completed an assignment with the DEA Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Team where he processed and dismantled over 150 methamphetamine laboratories. Jeff was the case agent in the largest methamphetamine conspiracy investigation conducted in the states of Missouri and Kansas which involved 1,500 pounds of methamphetamine, 500 kilograms of cocaine and led to the indictment of 30 co-conspirators. Jeff is a nationally known speaker in the area of methamphetamine and has given presentations for the Department of Justice, HIDTA and the United States Attorneys Office. Jeff is considered an expert witness in the area of methamphetamine and currently instructs all Federal Grand Juries in that area before they begin their term. In 2002 Jeff received an award from the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) for Outstanding Investigation and also received a leadership award from the United States Attorneys Office for Leadership in Drug Reduction.

Armando Sotero

Armando is a 12-year veteran of the North Miami Beach Police Department. He is currently the S.R.O. Supervisor, which includes the D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education and Training) and G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training) programs. Armando has been a D.A.R.E. instructor since 1998 and a G.R.E.A.T. instructor since 1999. He was the State of Florida D.A.R.E. Officer of the Year Runner-up in 1999. Armando is on the National Training Team for the Bureau of A.T.F. under the G.R.E.A.T. program and serves as a primary law enforcement instructor within his agency and at the Miami-Dade Police Academy. He has planned and designed emergency response plans for schools and serves as the Chairman on the North Miami Beach Education Committee. Armondo has a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the College for Professional Studies in Florida and a M.S. in Organization and Management Specializing in Human Resources from Capella University in Minnesota. Armando is also set to begin his doctrine at Nova University in Miami during the summer of 2004. He has numerous instructional certificates and has trained personnel throughout the United States on issues dealing with school safety and violence prevention.