TIMOTHY SELLERS
Drug Enforcement Administration Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Timothy Sellers initiated an investigation which led to the arrest of fourteen Hizb-I Islam Gulbidden and Taliban terrorists, who claimed responsibility for the homicide bombing and murder of five Afghanistan National Directorate of Security (NDS) agents in late 2003. SA Sellers prevented a planned attack on U.S. and NATO forces by tackling a homicide bomber as he was boarding a bus loaded with innocent Afghans, blocks from US and NATO military headquarters, the Presidential Palace, and the American Embassy. SA Sellers sustained a fractured leg in the altercation. Later that evening SSA Sellers participated in the arrests of thirteen additional terrorists. Doubtless, many A Peter F. Bo Peter F. Boyce is a graduate of the United States Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's Presentation Skills Course. In addition to his seminar presentations related to undercover buy-busts and the importance of training, he has made multiple presentations at the annual meeting of the Regional Organized Crime Information Center, as well as presentations related to police ethics, supervisory liability, street survival, profiling, street crimes, gangs, asset forfeiture, SWAT, and reacting to a critical incident. Since most of Mr. Boyce’s career has been devoted to representing, counseling, and advising police officers, he is able to bring to his presentations a “real life, on-the-street scenario” that street cops immediately understand and appreciate. Peter F. Boyce regularly works with law enforcement agencies to tailor presentations to meet specific training needs. He is available to provide advice, consultation, representation, or referrals to police officers and their employing agencies when they confront the inevitable legal issues that too often frustrate effective policing. For the past five years Peter F. Boyce has had the pleasure of speaking to thousands of street level cops on issues related to buy-busts and the importance of training as an instructor for the DEA in its Basic Narcotic Investigative Schools. He has also spoken to, and on behalf of, the Investigator’s Round table, the ROCIC, the Mid-West Counterdrug Training Center, and police departments and task forces throughout the country. Mr. Boyce is a member of the National Institute of Municipal Officers, the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Municipal Associati
Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Supervisory Special Agent Sellers worked 33 years in the state of Texas, serving as a Police Officer, and as a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. During his Texas assignments, he worked extensively in undercover assignments penetrating and dismantling large scale Mexican trafficking organizations.
SSA Sellers was awarded the United States Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Heroism, the DEA Administrator’s Award of Valor for Actions in Afghanistan, the DEA Administrator’s Award for Service at the Oklahoma City Bombing, and was nominated for a Service to America Medal for Counterterrorism. SSA Sellers retired from DEA in 2006. SSA Sellers has appeared on Fox News, Hannity and Colmes and MSNBC, The Morning Meeting with Dylan Radigan. 
Attorney Peter F. Boyce
Steven R. Peterson
Steven R. Peterson had been a Special Agent (SA) of the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration for nearly three decades. During this time SA Peterson has been stationed in Boston, New York, Atlanta, before retiring in Charlotte, NC. For over 11 years he had been the Atlanta Field Division Training Coordinator, responsible for creating, coordinating and conducting training to all DEA employees within the Division, as well as State & Local Officers within Georgia, Tennessee, North & South Carolina. During that time SA Peterson has taught over 80,000 law enforcement officers. Prior to training, as a street agent working undercover for 17 years, SA Peterson received countless awards and commendations for working all types of investigations, from Clandestine Drug Laboratories, to Title III Wiretaps, to Undercover Operations resulting in the seizure of almost 4 tons of cocaine, to Complex Conspiracy Investigations including the investigation into the murder of DEA SA Ray Stastny in 1987. SA Peterson is a DEA Certified Firearms Instructor, Defensive Tactics Instructor, Tactical/Raids Instructor, Clan Lab Certified, a member of DEA’s Traumatic Incident Response Team, graduate from the DEA IDC course, GA POST Certified Instructor, has a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, and is currently working towards a MPA degree from the University of North Carolina. SA Peterson served as the President of the National Drug Enforcement Officers Association (NDEOA) for three years, the longest term of any President in the NDEOA’s 40 year history. In 2010 SA Peterson received the NDEOA’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. The NDEOA is the oldest Federal, state and local narcotic cooperative in the United States. But most importantly, he is the husband of a beautiful wife and father of three great daughters. In actuality, he’s just an ordinary guy battling the forces of evil in extraordinary ways.
Mark Lucas
Mark Lucas is an eleven year veteran of the Memphis Police Department. Eight of those years he was a Narcotic Detective assigned to the Memphis Police Organized Crime Unit and DEA Task Force. While assigned to the special Organized Crime Unit, Mark trained newly assigned narcotic agents on how to conduct wiretaps, undercover operations, airport interdictions, surveillance techniques, and execution of search warrants. Mark has obtained numerous commendations throughout his law enforcement career. After an outstanding Law Enforcement career, Mark became a Firearms Training Instructor for Glock, Inc., traveling throughout the United States teaching Law Enforcement classes for Glock, Inc. He is a certified Glock armorer and Firearms instructor.
Mark is currently a Senior Corporate Security Officer for a major US Airline. His assigned territory is the Caribbean and South American regions. His knowledge of airport/airline interdiction is unparalleled and his experience makes him an expert in international narcotic smuggling.
Donald J. Imbordino
After leaving
the U.S. Army as an Atomic Weapons Team Chief in 1974, Donald J. Imbordino joined the Addison, Illinois Police
Department. He served in both the Patrol
and Investigation Divisions. In 1983 he
became a Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) where he was stationed at the Chicago Office. In 1987, Don was selected to attend the
Department of Defense Polygraph Institute (DoDPI). He earned certification as a Federal Polygraph
Examiner / Forensic Psychophysiologist and was subsequently transferred to the
Atlanta DEA Office as their Primary Polygraph Examiner. While in this capacity, Don administered over
3000 polygraph examinations both domestically and abroad. These polygraph tests
covered such issues as criminal investigations, threat assessment, witness
protection, internal affairs, statement verification, national security,
intelligence operations, informant credibility assessments and applicant
screening. Due to his extensive polygraph testing experience, Mr. Imbordino has
been qualified as an expert witness in Federal and State Courts.
In 1995 Donald was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent within the DEA
Polygraph Unit and was responsible for supervising and reviewing the work of
other DEA Polygraph Examiners worldwide. Throughout his years as a polygraph expert,
Don has provided instruction on a multitude of polygraph related studies to
federal, state, local and private polygraph examiners and law enforcement
officials. He was an Adjunct Faculty
Member at DoDPI, now called Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (DACA),
which many regard as the premier polygraph school. Additionally, Don is a
former instructor of Computerized Polygraph Training at the Texas Department of
Public Safety Polygraph School and is a member of the training staff at the Northeast
Counterdrug Training Center-Polygraph Training Program, Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA.
He is certified by the American
Polygraph Association as a Primary Polygraph Instructor and has taught many Interview
& Interrogation classes. In October
2003, Don retired from the federal government and began his private polygraph
practice based in the metro-Atlanta area.
Mr. Imbordino is an active member in several professional polygraph
associations. He is currently Chairman
of the Board of the American Association of Police Polygraphists, maintaining
advanced training certification; Full Member of the American Polygraph
Association, serves on committees, and maintains advanced training
certification; Member and past Vice-President of the Georgia Polygraph
Association and a Member of the American College of Forensic Examiners. Don is a strong advocate of continuing
education and receives approximately 40 hours of continuing education in
polygraph related studies each year. He
is a graduate of National-Louis University with a Bachelor’s Degree in
Behavioral Science and has also received certification in Forensic
Psychophysiology (advanced theory in lie detection) at the University of Virginia.
Gilberto
Gonzales
Gilberto
Gonzalez retired with 24 years of experience as a Special Agent (S/A) of the
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). During assignment to the DEA Los Angeles
Division Office, S/A Gonzalez worked major money laundering investigations as
both case agent and undercover agent. On assignment to the Guadalajara,
Mexico, DEA Country Office, S/A Gonzalez investigated major Mexican drug
trafficking violators. In San Antonio, Texas, DEA assigned S/A Gonzalez
to the Federal Bureau of Investigations in order to assist in the Southwest
border initiative. At the El Paso Intelligence center S/A Gonzalez worked
as the training coordinator for the center. S/A Gonzalez has extensive
undercover experience working across the United States Mexico and South
America, and is recognized across the country as a Mexican Trafficker Group
Specialist and a undercover operations subject matter expert. In 1998,
S/A Gonzalez received the DEA Administrator’s Award of Valor. In 2007, S/A
Gonzalez received the National Drug Enforcement Officers Association Award of
Valor. At present Mr. Gonzalez serves as the executive director of the
Texas Narcotics Officers Association. S/A Gonzalez holds a Master’s
degree in Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice,
as well as the State of Texas Teaching Certification in the areas of Speech, Theater,
Sociology and Government.
Dr. Harvey Goldstein
Dr. Harv
Dr. Goldstein has most recently focused on work with senior level executives, assisting them in leadership competencies for high performing teams. He has consulting and training relationships with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Citicorp, Time Warner, Florida Power and Light and IBM. Recent past assignments have included motivational seminars for the world champion New York Yankees, The M2 Executive Magazine Forum and The Public Risk Management Association. He maintains ongoing training and consulting relationships with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, the State Department and the NY City Transit Authority.
Dr. Goldstein has appeared as an expert on numerous network and local television and radio programs discussing behavioral science in the workplace. These include "60 Minutes", CBS Evening News, PBS and National Public Radio, ABC's "Nightline" and most recently an HBO production for Court TV. He has held adjunct teaching and lecture assignments at New York University, Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia, Columbia University, the University of Denver and the University of Maryland.
Gene R. Bachman
regarding “Operation Snowcap”. Special Agent Bachman continued deployments to South America for five years, and received DEA’s Highest Award (Administrator’s Award) for actions during “Operation Snowcap”. Gene Bachman earned a Master of Science Degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi on a full scholarship for Varsity Football. Mr. Bachman was the elected Team Captain, and received every Defensive Player Award Offered by USM, as well as an honorable mention All American by UPI (United Press International). Special Agent Bachman ended his career with DEA as the Resident Agent in Charge of DEA’s Knoxville Resident Office, in 1997, and currently owes a working farm, and small motel in Townsend, TN.
Dr. Harold L. Crossley
Harold L. Cro
Michael E. Grimes
“Mike”
Dr. Everette Doolittle
Dr. Everett Doolittle is an associate professor at the Metropolitan State University, School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice; where he teaches graduate and under graduate courses in criminal Proceedure and Investigation, Criminal Justice Ethics, and Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Leadership.
Some of his major areas of concentration are: management and supervision practices and principles, leadership studies and theories, criminal investigations, and criminal
justice ethics decision making. Prior to taking a position at the University, he was a Senior Special Agent with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, State of
Minnesota and headed the BCA's Cold Case Homicide Unit. This unit has received great notoriety and has been featured on CBS 48 hours and A&E Cold Case Files.
Over the past thirty years, he has worked as a consultant and instructor to the law enforcement and non-law enforcement communities providing specialized training and consulting in leadership, management/supervision, teambuilding, interviewing/conflict resolutions, cold case homicide investigations, law enforcement ethics, and the ethical leader. Professor Doolittle holds a Masters in Management and Administration, a Doctoral in Public Administration, and a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
James Eagleson
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Rodney Pierce
David Lundgren
Dave Lundgren with the Hayward Police Department, has been employed by the Hayward Police Department for twenty one years. Thirteen of those years were spent in the Narcotics Unit as well as the Alameda County Narcotics Task Force. Sergeant Lundgren has been assigned to the Hayward Police SWAT Team for over 14 years and is currently the Range Coordinator for the Hayward Police Department. Sergeant Lundgren is a certified California Police Officer Standards & Training Instructor in Identity Theft. Sergeant Lundgren has taught classes in narcotic enforcement, surveillance techniques, officer survival, and active shooter. Sergeant Lundgren possesses a California Police Supervisors P.O.S.T. certificate and is an instructor at the California Narcotic Officers’ Association Narcotic Supervisors Course. Sergeant Lundgren has investigated numerous identity theft and fraud crimes with a direct connection to methamphetamine and has conducted in excess of one-hundred undercover drug buys. Sergeant Lundgren is a recipient of the C.N.O.A. “Alfred E. Stewart” Award for Narcotic Officer of the Year for the State of California in 2007. Sergeant Lundgren has also been awarded the Hayward Police Department’s highest award, the “Medal of Valor” for bravery in 2008.
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