Meet the Trainers

About the Trainers

First Name: Mark Last Name: Bailey Title: Chief of Police, Jefferson State Community College Bio: Mark Bailey is the Director of Campus Safety at Jefferson State Community College in Alabama. He has over twenty years of law enforcement experience. He spent the majority of his career at the Bessemer Police Department in Alabama. During his career, he has worked and supervised all areas of criminal investigation ranging from narcotics to homicide. Additionally, Mark has over fifteen years of SWAT experience with eight years as a team supervisor. Mark graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Aspen University. Mark’s resume includes over thirty instructor certificates in a variety of tactical and investigative disciplines. He is a nationally recognized trainer and has presented courses to state, local and federal law enforcement officers across the United States.
First Name: Damon Last Name: Fay Title: Instructor Bio: Damon Fay was a 24-year veteran investigator and supervisor for the Albuquerque Police Department in New Mexico. He was a primary case agent for homicides, police officer involved shootings and major violent crimes cases for 14 of his career years. As a supervisor he led an officer involved shooting team and assisted in numerous major crime joint jurisdictional investigations and task force initiatives. Damon is a recognized expert in homicide investigations, police use of force and pattern injury identification. During his extensive investigative career he has developed nationally accepted procedures for cold case homicide investigation and has become one of the leading circumstantial case specialists in the country. Local, state and federal prosecutors and Police Command have called upon Fay numerous times in his career to provide expertise in complex, high profile and highly sensitive investigations. As a Sergeant of the Advanced Training Unit of the Albuquerque Police Academy, Damon and his staff oversaw the specialization training and career advancement of police personnel. He is an instructor in Firearms, Defensive Tactics and Ground Fighting, Use of force and intermediate Use of force, Homicide and cold Case Investigation, Major Case Management, Interview and Interrogations and Contact Weapons Defense. Sgt Fay holds a 3rd degree (3rd Don) black belt in Tae Kwon Do through the United States TKD Federation and the International TKD Federation, and he is a Kali/Eskrima student. He lectures and teaches through out the United States and is the co-author of Contact Weapons: Lethality and Defense published by Gun Site Press.
First Name: Steve Last Name: Gaenzle Title: Instructor Bio: Steve Gaenzle has twenty-six years of distinguished service as a peace officer. Steve began his career with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in El Paso, Texas, his hometown. He has been a field supervisor, field training officer, undercover detective assigned to the FBI’s Federal Fugitive Task Force and a lead homicide detective. In addition to being a Spanish instructor, Steve has taught interview and interrogation, crime scene search, LEO driving and criminal law. Steve has created Spanish training programs for dispatchers, patrol and jail personnel in multiple states. Steve has an international certification to teach English as a Second Language/Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Steve has authored Spanish for the Peace Officer©, and co-authored ¡Yo Si Puedo, Yes I Can! Spanish Language Concepts for Law Enforcement©. He is the co-founder of Spanish Language Concepts LLC, www.spalanco.com
First Name: T. K. Last Name: Gordon Title: Instructor Bio: TK" Gordon- is a Sergeant with the Doraville Georgia Police Department's Special Investigations Section and has been a police officer since 1995. He is a Georgia P.O.S.T. Certified General and Specialized Firearms Instructor. He has been assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force in Atlanta since 1996. His experience at DEA ranges from long term crack cocaine cases to multi-jurisdictional and international conspiracy cases involving Mexican and Dominican drug trafficking organizations. These and other cases contributed to him earning numerous awards and commendations, including the DEA Administrator's Award in 2001 and the Organized Crime Enforcement Drug Task Force "Case of the Year" in 2005. His current assignment emphasizes utilizing wire intercepts to effectively target and dismantle large scale drug trafficking organizations. Utilizing these and other techniques, he has been the case agent or participated in numerous significant drug and currency seizures throughout the United States. He has developed several training classes that provides insight into how to successfully target these significant drug trafficking organizations with both traditional and non-traditional avenues of investigation. He specializes in utilizing wire intercepts to target DTOs, the management of day to day operations and prosecution of cases involving wire intercepts.
First Name: Les Last Name: Kjemhus Title: Instructor Bio: Instructor: Les Kjemhus is a 30 year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He is a recognized expert in North America in the field of indoor cannabis cultivation investigations. He has conducted hundreds of indoor grow investigations in Canada and has testified as an expert in this field in both Canada and the USA. He has cultivated indoor marijuana under license for the RCMP on a number of occasions to train investigators and in an undercover capacity. As a result, he has very unique,"hands-on", experience about marijuana cultivation to pass on to law enforcement trainees. Les has taught this subject on over 350 occasions for the RCMP, the DEA, US Department of Justice, Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC), Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center (WRCT), Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC), Mid Atlantic Narcotic Training Academy (MANTA) as well as numerous State and local law enforcement agencies. Inspector Kjemhus helped develop the DEA's "Marijuana Cultivation Investigator's Handbook" and wrote and publish a book entitled "Two Way Street – Parents, Kids and Drugs". Inspector Kjemhus was one of the first police officers in Canada to utilize thermal imaging in successful detection of indoor marijuana grow sites and, as a result ,e was selected by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication and Suppression Program (DCE/SP)to instruct indoor marijuana grow investigations and thermal imaging for many years across the USA. Les is a founding member of the Law Enforcement Thermographer's Association (LETA). He has been a certified Law Enforcement Thermal Imaging Instructor and served on the Executive Board of L.E.T.A. for six years. Les has an extensive background in narcotics enforcement, expert testimony and law enforcement instruction. On March 5th, 2004, he retired from his position as the Commander, Calgary Region, R.C.M.P., Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Les is the President of L. Kjemhus Law Enforcement Seminars and Consulting Inc and travels extensively in Canada and the USA teaching law enforcement classes and consulting. He has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Office of National Drug Policy, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Drug Enforcement Branch, the California Association of Chiefs of Police and a number of other government and law enforcement agencies. Les and his wife Lorraine reside in the Calgary, Alberta area and have two children Brad (25), a serving member of the RCMP, and Chelsea (22) who is an OR Technician.
First Name: Theodore Last Name: Krayer Title: Instructor Bio: Theodore H. Krayer, MPH, CHMM
First Name: Wadi Last Name: Sawabini Title: Instructor Bio: Wadi Sawabini has trained thousands of federal, state, county and local law enforcement officers how to use video camcorders to document all forms of criminal activity. Sawabini instructs a three-day, hands-on Video Camcorder Class which teaches participants how to use video to document drug search warrants, drug-related crime scenes such as shootings and how to use camcorders to record surveillance video of all kinds of criminal activity. Since 1991, his top-rated classes have been used by the Gulf Coast HIDTA, the Rocky Mountain HIDTA, the North Texas HIDTA, the LA Area HIDTA and others to train task force members how to take advantage of the power of video tape to help make cases. Other agencies which have used his training include the ATF, Border Patrol, DEA, FBI, INS and the Secret Service. Officers from at least 10 other countries have attended his training classes. Sawabini is a former Reserve Deputy with the Erie County (NY) Sheriff’s Office. He has a BA in Communications from the University of Vermont and is a member of ILEETA and several other professional organizations. It should be noted that Sawabini does not sell video equipment of any kind. Please feel free to contact him with questions about video equipment through his website: www.lawenforcementvideo.com.
First Name: Billy Last Name: Sides Title: Instructor Bio: Billy began his law enforcement career in 1996. Throughout his career he has experienced working for a Sheriff’s Department, Drug Task Force, Crime Task Force, and a District Attorney’s Office. He also has past experience as a certified K-9 handler. He has been a partner in a certified K-9 Academy and trained several certified K-9’s. Billy began working criminal patrol on Interstate 20 in Texas after three months of becoming a certified peace officer. Once receiving further training, he dedicated his law enforcement career to criminal patrol. He continues to devote his law enforcement career to working criminal patrol in Texas. Billy has extensive experience in criminal patrol making hundreds of arrests and seizures during his career. He has seized thousands of pounds of illegal drugs and several million dollars of United States currency from drug trafficking organizations. His most notable single seizure to date is 6,245 pounds of marijuana from a commercial motor vehicle stop. He has worked with local, state, and federal authorities in the investigations of large narcotic trafficking organizations within the United States. He has apprehended two suspects that were transporting 48 illegal immigrants across the country in the back of a commercial truck, with lead to the Federal prosecution of both suspects and possibly saving several lives in the process. Billy is also credited with initiating criminal investigations relating to fraud, identity theft, and auto thefts that originated from traffic enforcement patrol stops. He is directly responsible for uncovering multi-state criminal organizations due to those tops. Billy has courtroom experience testifying in criminal patrol and drug related cases at the local, state, and federal levels. Billy supervised a criminal patrol team that constantly rated in the top five of the Texas Narcotics Control Program. He worked in the field right along side his fellow officers during his tenure as a supervisor. Billy is a certified peace officer instructor with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). He has given instruction to thousands of fellow peace officers on criminal patrol and related topics. He is co-owner with his full-time partner and friend Ronnie Stiltner in their company Highway Interdiction Training Specialists, Inc. Billy has received several awards and recognition for past criminal patrol successes during his career. He received a Certificate of Commendation from the Texas Office of the Governor in 1997 for outstanding performance of duty. He received the Midland Texas Crime-Stoppers Officer of the Year Award in 1999 along with his K-9 Reno. He received an Outstanding Service Medal from the Director of the Texas Narcotics Control Program in 2001. Billy continues to serve the community by training fellow officers and teaching schoolteachers and faculty the signs of drug use among students
First Name: Chris Last Name: Smith Title: Instructor Bio: Chris Smith has been an investigator with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics since 1982. He started his career with the OBN in the Southeast District Office in McAlester, OK. His duties included undercover work, clandestine methamphetamine laboratory investigations and air smuggling. With the southeastern part of the state being the hub of marijuana cultivation, Agent Smith spent much of his time investigating marijuana cultivation. Agent Smith has served as the Operations Officer for the OBN's Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program and later as the program's coordinator. He was also instrumental in the development of the two-week DEA/OBN Marijuana Cultivation Investigator's Course held annually at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma and was coordinator of the course for five (5) years. Agent Smith continues to be a lead instructor at the schoo. Agent Smith has held the positions of district supervisor of the Southwest District of the OBN and Deputy Director of the agency. He has also been a tactical team leader and team leader of the Underwater Evidence Recovery Team, at the time, the only organized state police dive team. Aency Smith is currently the Agent In Charge of Diversion for the OBN. He is graduate of Oklahoma State Univeristy and the Oklahoma City Police Academy and has attended the DEA Drug Unit Commander's Academy, the U.S. Navy Small Boat Riverine, the U.S. Army Air Assualt Course, the U.S. Army Rappel. Master Course, and the U.S. Navy Small Boat Riverine Operations course.
First Name: Tracy Last Name: Sparshott Title: Detective - Retired Montgomery County Bio: Tracy C. Sparshott served for 24 years with the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department. While with the department he spent time in uniform, Decentralized SWAT, Special Assignment Team, Narcotics and K-9. He has been deputized as a U.S. Marshal and been assigned to the FBI, DEA, Customs and the IRS. Tracy has been involved in undercover operations that have taken him to Florida, New York, Connecticut, as well as California. He is recognized as an expert in the field of Undercover Narcotic Investigations and Drug Interdiction, by District Courts as well as Circuit and U.S. Federal Court. Tracy’s teaching credentials include Law Enforcement Academies throughout the United States, including Investigators from all branches of the U.S. Military, NEOA, International Chief’s of Police. He has also provided training to National Police Forces from several countries abroad for the U.S. State Department. Tracy has been the guest speaker at Narcotic Conferences in, Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Utah. He has also been an honorarium at several major universities, and he served as Co-Chairman for the Council of Government Subcommittee on Narcotics.During his career with Montgomery County, Tracey was involved in a year long drug investigation between Washington, D.C. and Florida. Both the FBI and IRS were brought into the case because of the amount of money, property and statewide issues involved. Tracy Sparshott is featured in the non-fiction book entitled “Trust Me” by Richard Rashke which depicts this case. “Trust Me” can be found at www.trustme-narco.com or amazon.com.
First Name: Ronnie Last Name: Stiltner Title: Instructor Bio: Ronnie began his law enforcement career in 1991. Throughout his career he has experienced working for a local Police Department, Drug Task Force, and a District Attorney's Office. He also has past experience as a certified K-9 handler. Ronnie began working criminal interdiction after receiving training in advanced highway drug interdiction and commerical motor vehicle terdiction. Once receiving training and gaining experience he chose to dedicate himself to the furtherance of the criminal/drug interdiction concept through articipation as well as the training of other police officers. He continues to devote his police career to criminal/drug interdiction working traffic enforcement criminal interdiction full time in Texas. Ronnie has extensive experience in criminal /drug interdiction making hundreds of arrests and seizures. He has seized thousands of pounds of illegal drugs and millions of dollars from drug traffickers during his career with the most significant seizures to date being: 8,085 pounds of marijuana on a single commercial vehicle stop, 20 pounds of heroin on a single stop, 30 pounds of methamphetamine on a single stop, and more than $9,912,000.00 (9.9 million) on a single commercial vehicle stop. He is an expert on vehicle contraband concealment methods being utilized by suspects. Ronnie is also credited with apprehending numerous violent felons of which include two separate traffic stops resulting in the apprehension of two Capital Murder suspects, both of which were later convicted and removed from society. He has courtroom experinece testifying in criminal/drug interdiction cases at the local, state and federal court level. Ronnie has been directly involved in the implementation of three successful criminal/drug interdiction programs. He has previous experience as a criminal /drug interdiction supervisor. As a supervisor he continued to work in the field right along with his fellow officers. Ronnie has an instructor license issued by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). To date he has given instruction to thousands of fellow police officers on criminal /drug interdiction and related topics. His teaching experience includes providing instruction at the Regional Counter-drug Training Academy (RCTA) located on the Naval Air Station in Meridian Mississippi, the Midwest Counter-drug Training Center (MCTC) located at Camp Dodge in Des Moines Iowa,and as owner-partnership of Highway Interdiction Training Specialists (H.I.T.S.www.hits-training.com) with friend and criminal interdiction partner Billy Sides. Ronnie has received several awards and recognition for past criminal/.drug interdiction successes. Prior to law enforcement he served over six (6) years in the United States Air Force.
First Name: Chuck Last Name: Stocking Title: Captain Bio: Charles (Chuck) Stocking is a Captain with the Cass County (Missouri) Sheriff’s Office, which is located in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Captain Stocking, who has been with the agency since 1989, has been involved full-time with clandestine laboratory investigations for the past 10 years. He currently commands the agency’s investigation division. He was assigned to the DEA task force conducting clandestine laboratory and methamphetamine trafficking investigations throughout the Midwest from 1999 to 2002, and has participated in over 800 clandestine laboratory seizures. Captain Stocking is a Missouri Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission-certified instructor and a DEA-certified clandestine laboratory site safety officer, and has received training on clandestine laboratory tactical entry by the DEA at Quantico, Virginia. He has conducted numerous training programs on clandestine laboratory certification and recertification for his agency and literally hundreds of training programs on methamphetamine abuse, hazards, and manufacturing for Circle and other organizations.
First Name: William Last Name: Wagner Title: Trainer Bio: Bill Wagner was a member of the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC and has 37 years of experience as a Criminal Investigator and Investigative Supervisor. He has had extensive involvement in all areas of Criminal Investigations with a specialty in Violent Crimes. He is a nationally recognized trainer in Criminal Investigations, Case Management and Defense Proofing Techniques for Trial Presentation. Detective Wagner has been qualified as an expert on Criminal Investigations Procedures in both Federal and Local courts through his lengthy career. From 1991 to 2001, in addition to his investigative responsibilities, he has been a faculty member and on the board of advisors for the Criminal Justice Division at the Prince George’s Community College, Largo Maryland. Det. Wagner developed and assisted in the implementation of the College A.A. degree program for Forensic Science. He is the Past Deputy Director of Criminal Investigations Training at the Prince Georges Municipal Police Academy and has provided seminars nationally at both the local and federal level. Bill’s instructional style is unmatched in today’s law enforcement training environment and has been developed through years of interaction with the working police officer. His understanding of violent offenders, pattern offenses and criminal behavior have been time proven investigative directives that have lead police departments and federal agencies to enhance their investigative ability, increase arrest and case clearance rates and show a direct rise in their conviction rates. Bill currently holds certification in both law enforcement training and instructor development.

First Name: Mark
Last Name: Bailey
Title: Chief of Police, Jefferson State Community College
Bio: Mark Bailey is the Director of Campus Safety at Jefferson State Community College in Alabama. He has over twenty years of law enforcement experience. He spent the majority of his career at the Bessemer Police Department in Alabama. During his career, he has worked and supervised all areas of criminal investigation ranging from narcotics to homicide. Additionally, Mark has over fifteen years of SWAT experience with eight years as a team supervisor. Mark graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Aspen University. Mark’s resume includes over thirty instructor certificates in a variety of tactical and investigative disciplines. He is a nationally recognized trainer and has presented courses to state, local and federal law enforcement officers across the United States.

First Name: Damon
Last Name: Fay
Title: Instructor
Bio: Damon Fay was a 24-year veteran investigator and supervisor for the Albuquerque Police Department in New Mexico. He was a primary case agent for homicides, police officer involved shootings and major violent crimes cases for 14 of his career years. As a supervisor he led an officer involved shooting team and assisted in numerous major crime joint jurisdictional investigations and task force initiatives. Damon is a recognized expert in homicide investigations, police use of force and pattern injury identification. During his extensive investigative career he has developed nationally accepted procedures for cold case homicide investigation and has become one of the leading circumstantial case specialists in the country. Local, state and federal prosecutors and Police Command have called upon Fay numerous times in his career to provide expertise in complex, high profile and highly sensitive investigations. As a Sergeant of the Advanced Training Unit of the Albuquerque Police Academy, Damon and his staff oversaw the specialization training and career advancement of police personnel. He is an instructor in Firearms, Defensive Tactics and Ground Fighting, Use of force and intermediate Use of force, Homicide and cold Case Investigation, Major Case Management, Interview and Interrogations and Contact Weapons Defense. Sgt Fay holds a 3rd degree (3rd Don) black belt in Tae Kwon Do through the United States TKD Federation and the International TKD Federation, and he is a Kali/Eskrima student. He lectures and teaches through out the United States and is the co-author of Contact Weapons: Lethality and Defense published by Gun Site Press.

First Name: Steve
Last Name: Gaenzle
Title: Instructor
Bio: Steve Gaenzle has twenty-six years of distinguished service as a peace officer. Steve began his career with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in El Paso, Texas, his hometown. He has been a field supervisor, field training officer, undercover detective assigned to the FBI’s Federal Fugitive Task Force and a lead homicide detective. In addition to being a Spanish instructor, Steve has taught interview and interrogation, crime scene search, LEO driving and criminal law. Steve has created Spanish training programs for dispatchers, patrol and jail personnel in multiple states. Steve has an international certification to teach English as a Second Language/Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Steve has authored Spanish for the Peace Officer©, and co-authored ¡Yo Si Puedo, Yes I Can! Spanish Language Concepts for Law Enforcement©. He is the co-founder of Spanish Language Concepts LLC, www.spalanco.com

First Name: T. K.
Last Name: Gordon
Title: Instructor
Bio: TK" Gordon- is a Sergeant with the Doraville Georgia Police Department's Special Investigations Section and has been a police officer since 1995. He is a Georgia P.O.S.T. Certified General and Specialized Firearms Instructor. He has been assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force in Atlanta since 1996. His experience at DEA ranges from long term crack cocaine cases to multi-jurisdictional and international conspiracy cases involving Mexican and Dominican drug trafficking organizations. These and other cases contributed to him earning numerous awards and commendations, including the DEA Administrator's Award in 2001 and the Organized Crime Enforcement Drug Task Force "Case of the Year" in 2005. His current assignment emphasizes utilizing wire intercepts to effectively target and dismantle large scale drug trafficking organizations. Utilizing these and other techniques, he has been the case agent or participated in numerous significant drug and currency seizures throughout the United States. He has developed several training classes that provides insight into how to successfully target these significant drug trafficking organizations with both traditional and non-traditional avenues of investigation. He specializes in utilizing wire intercepts to target DTOs, the management of day to day operations and prosecution of cases involving wire intercepts.

First Name: Les
Last Name: Kjemhus
Title: Instructor
Bio: Instructor: Les Kjemhus is a 30 year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). He is a recognized expert in North America in the field of indoor cannabis cultivation investigations. He has conducted hundreds of indoor grow investigations in Canada and has testified as an expert in this field in both Canada and the USA. He has cultivated indoor marijuana under license for the RCMP on a number of occasions to train investigators and in an undercover capacity. As a result, he has very unique,"hands-on", experience about marijuana cultivation to pass on to law enforcement trainees. Les has taught this subject on over 350 occasions for the RCMP, the DEA, US Department of Justice, Midwest Counterdrug Training Center (MCTC), Western Regional Counterdrug Training Center (WRCT), Northeast Counterdrug Training Center (NCTC), Mid Atlantic Narcotic Training Academy (MANTA) as well as numerous State and local law enforcement agencies. Inspector Kjemhus helped develop the DEA's "Marijuana Cultivation Investigator's Handbook" and wrote and publish a book entitled "Two Way Street – Parents, Kids and Drugs". Inspector Kjemhus was one of the first police officers in Canada to utilize thermal imaging in successful detection of indoor marijuana grow sites and, as a result ,e was selected by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication and Suppression Program (DCE/SP)to instruct indoor marijuana grow investigations and thermal imaging for many years across the USA. Les is a founding member of the Law Enforcement Thermographer's Association (LETA). He has been a certified Law Enforcement Thermal Imaging Instructor and served on the Executive Board of L.E.T.A. for six years. Les has an extensive background in narcotics enforcement, expert testimony and law enforcement instruction. On March 5th, 2004, he retired from his position as the Commander, Calgary Region, R.C.M.P., Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Les is the President of L. Kjemhus Law Enforcement Seminars and Consulting Inc and travels extensively in Canada and the USA teaching law enforcement classes and consulting. He has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Office of National Drug Policy, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Drug Enforcement Branch, the California Association of Chiefs of Police and a number of other government and law enforcement agencies. Les and his wife Lorraine reside in the Calgary, Alberta area and have two children Brad (25), a serving member of the RCMP, and Chelsea (22) who is an OR Technician.

First Name: Theodore
Last Name: Krayer
Title: Instructor
Bio: Theodore H. Krayer, MPH, CHMM

First Name: Wadi
Last Name: Sawabini
Title: Instructor
Bio: Wadi Sawabini has trained thousands of federal, state, county and local law enforcement officers how to use video camcorders to document all forms of criminal activity. Sawabini instructs a three-day, hands-on Video Camcorder Class which teaches participants how to use video to document drug search warrants, drug-related crime scenes such as shootings and how to use camcorders to record surveillance video of all kinds of criminal activity. Since 1991, his top-rated classes have been used by the Gulf Coast HIDTA, the Rocky Mountain HIDTA, the North Texas HIDTA, the LA Area HIDTA and others to train task force members how to take advantage of the power of video tape to help make cases. Other agencies which have used his training include the ATF, Border Patrol, DEA, FBI, INS and the Secret Service. Officers from at least 10 other countries have attended his training classes. Sawabini is a former Reserve Deputy with the Erie County (NY) Sheriff’s Office. He has a BA in Communications from the University of Vermont and is a member of ILEETA and several other professional organizations. It should be noted that Sawabini does not sell video equipment of any kind. Please feel free to contact him with questions about video equipment through his website: www.lawenforcementvideo.com.

First Name: Billy
Last Name: Sides
Title: Instructor
Bio: Billy began his law enforcement career in 1996. Throughout his career he has experienced working for a Sheriff’s Department, Drug Task Force, Crime Task Force, and a District Attorney’s Office. He also has past experience as a certified K-9 handler. He has been a partner in a certified K-9 Academy and trained several certified K-9’s. Billy began working criminal patrol on Interstate 20 in Texas after three months of becoming a certified peace officer. Once receiving further training, he dedicated his law enforcement career to criminal patrol. He continues to devote his law enforcement career to working criminal patrol in Texas. Billy has extensive experience in criminal patrol making hundreds of arrests and seizures during his career. He has seized thousands of pounds of illegal drugs and several million dollars of United States currency from drug trafficking organizations. His most notable single seizure to date is 6,245 pounds of marijuana from a commercial motor vehicle stop. He has worked with local, state, and federal authorities in the investigations of large narcotic trafficking organizations within the United States. He has apprehended two suspects that were transporting 48 illegal immigrants across the country in the back of a commercial truck, with lead to the Federal prosecution of both suspects and possibly saving several lives in the process. Billy is also credited with initiating criminal investigations relating to fraud, identity theft, and auto thefts that originated from traffic enforcement patrol stops. He is directly responsible for uncovering multi-state criminal organizations due to those tops. Billy has courtroom experience testifying in criminal patrol and drug related cases at the local, state, and federal levels. Billy supervised a criminal patrol team that constantly rated in the top five of the Texas Narcotics Control Program. He worked in the field right along side his fellow officers during his tenure as a supervisor. Billy is a certified peace officer instructor with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). He has given instruction to thousands of fellow peace officers on criminal patrol and related topics. He is co-owner with his full-time partner and friend Ronnie Stiltner in their company Highway Interdiction Training Specialists, Inc. Billy has received several awards and recognition for past criminal patrol successes during his career. He received a Certificate of Commendation from the Texas Office of the Governor in 1997 for outstanding performance of duty. He received the Midland Texas Crime-Stoppers Officer of the Year Award in 1999 along with his K-9 Reno. He received an Outstanding Service Medal from the Director of the Texas Narcotics Control Program in 2001. Billy continues to serve the community by training fellow officers and teaching schoolteachers and faculty the signs of drug use among students

First Name: Chris
Last Name: Smith
Title: Instructor
Bio: Chris Smith has been an investigator with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics since 1982. He started his career with the OBN in the Southeast District Office in McAlester, OK. His duties included undercover work, clandestine methamphetamine laboratory investigations and air smuggling. With the southeastern part of the state being the hub of marijuana cultivation, Agent Smith spent much of his time investigating marijuana cultivation. Agent Smith has served as the Operations Officer for the OBN's Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program and later as the program's coordinator. He was also instrumental in the development of the two-week DEA/OBN Marijuana Cultivation Investigator's Course held annually at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma and was coordinator of the course for five (5) years. Agent Smith continues to be a lead instructor at the schoo. Agent Smith has held the positions of district supervisor of the Southwest District of the OBN and Deputy Director of the agency. He has also been a tactical team leader and team leader of the Underwater Evidence Recovery Team, at the time, the only organized state police dive team. Aency Smith is currently the Agent In Charge of Diversion for the OBN. He is graduate of Oklahoma State Univeristy and the Oklahoma City Police Academy and has attended the DEA Drug Unit Commander's Academy, the U.S. Navy Small Boat Riverine, the U.S. Army Air Assualt Course, the U.S. Army Rappel. Master Course, and the U.S. Navy Small Boat Riverine Operations course.

First Name: Tracy
Last Name: Sparshott
Title: Detective - Retired Montgomery County
Bio: Tracy C. Sparshott served for 24 years with the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department. While with the department he spent time in uniform, Decentralized SWAT, Special Assignment Team, Narcotics and K-9. He has been deputized as a U.S. Marshal and been assigned to the FBI, DEA, Customs and the IRS. Tracy has been involved in undercover operations that have taken him to Florida, New York, Connecticut, as well as California. He is recognized as an expert in the field of Undercover Narcotic Investigations and Drug Interdiction, by District Courts as well as Circuit and U.S. Federal Court. Tracy’s teaching credentials include Law Enforcement Academies throughout the United States, including Investigators from all branches of the U.S. Military, NEOA, International Chief’s of Police. He has also provided training to National Police Forces from several countries abroad for the U.S. State Department. Tracy has been the guest speaker at Narcotic Conferences in, Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Utah. He has also been an honorarium at several major universities, and he served as Co-Chairman for the Council of Government Subcommittee on Narcotics.During his career with Montgomery County, Tracey was involved in a year long drug investigation between Washington, D.C. and Florida. Both the FBI and IRS were brought into the case because of the amount of money, property and statewide issues involved. Tracy Sparshott is featured in the non-fiction book entitled “Trust Me” by Richard Rashke which depicts this case. “Trust Me” can be found at www.trustme-narco.com or amazon.com.

First Name: Ronnie
Last Name: Stiltner
Title: Instructor
Bio: Ronnie began his law enforcement career in 1991. Throughout his career he has experienced working for a local Police Department, Drug Task Force, and a District Attorney's Office. He also has past experience as a certified K-9 handler. Ronnie began working criminal interdiction after receiving training in advanced highway drug interdiction and commerical motor vehicle terdiction. Once receiving training and gaining experience he chose to dedicate himself to the furtherance of the criminal/drug interdiction concept through articipation as well as the training of other police officers. He continues to devote his police career to criminal/drug interdiction working traffic enforcement criminal interdiction full time in Texas. Ronnie has extensive experience in criminal /drug interdiction making hundreds of arrests and seizures. He has seized thousands of pounds of illegal drugs and millions of dollars from drug traffickers during his career with the most significant seizures to date being: 8,085 pounds of marijuana on a single commercial vehicle stop, 20 pounds of heroin on a single stop, 30 pounds of methamphetamine on a single stop, and more than $9,912,000.00 (9.9 million) on a single commercial vehicle stop. He is an expert on vehicle contraband concealment methods being utilized by suspects. Ronnie is also credited with apprehending numerous violent felons of which include two separate traffic stops resulting in the apprehension of two Capital Murder suspects, both of which were later convicted and removed from society. He has courtroom experinece testifying in criminal/drug interdiction cases at the local, state and federal court level. Ronnie has been directly involved in the implementation of three successful criminal/drug interdiction programs. He has previous experience as a criminal /drug interdiction supervisor. As a supervisor he continued to work in the field right along with his fellow officers. Ronnie has an instructor license issued by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). To date he has given instruction to thousands of fellow police officers on criminal /drug interdiction and related topics. His teaching experience includes providing instruction at the Regional Counter-drug Training Academy (RCTA) located on the Naval Air Station in Meridian Mississippi, the Midwest Counter-drug Training Center (MCTC) located at Camp Dodge in Des Moines Iowa,and as owner-partnership of Highway Interdiction Training Specialists (H.I.T.S.www.hits-training.com) with friend and criminal interdiction partner Billy Sides. Ronnie has received several awards and recognition for past criminal/.drug interdiction successes. Prior to law enforcement he served over six (6) years in the United States Air Force.

First Name: Chuck
Last Name: Stocking
Title: Captain
Bio: Charles (Chuck) Stocking is a Captain with the Cass County (Missouri) Sheriff’s Office, which is located in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Captain Stocking, who has been with the agency since 1989, has been involved full-time with clandestine laboratory investigations for the past 10 years. He currently commands the agency’s investigation division. He was assigned to the DEA task force conducting clandestine laboratory and methamphetamine trafficking investigations throughout the Midwest from 1999 to 2002, and has participated in over 800 clandestine laboratory seizures. Captain Stocking is a Missouri Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission-certified instructor and a DEA-certified clandestine laboratory site safety officer, and has received training on clandestine laboratory tactical entry by the DEA at Quantico, Virginia. He has conducted numerous training programs on clandestine laboratory certification and recertification for his agency and literally hundreds of training programs on methamphetamine abuse, hazards, and manufacturing for Circle and other organizations.

First Name: William
Last Name: Wagner
Title: Trainer
Bio: Bill Wagner was a member of the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC and has 37 years of experience as a Criminal Investigator and Investigative Supervisor. He has had extensive involvement in all areas of Criminal Investigations with a specialty in Violent Crimes. He is a nationally recognized trainer in Criminal Investigations, Case Management and Defense Proofing Techniques for Trial Presentation. Detective Wagner has been qualified as an expert on Criminal Investigations Procedures in both Federal and Local courts through his lengthy career. From 1991 to 2001, in addition to his investigative responsibilities, he has been a faculty member and on the board of advisors for the Criminal Justice Division at the Prince George’s Community College, Largo Maryland. Det. Wagner developed and assisted in the implementation of the College A.A. degree program for Forensic Science. He is the Past Deputy Director of Criminal Investigations Training at the Prince Georges Municipal Police Academy and has provided seminars nationally at both the local and federal level. Bill’s instructional style is unmatched in today’s law enforcement training environment and has been developed through years of interaction with the working police officer. His understanding of violent offenders, pattern offenses and criminal behavior have been time proven investigative directives that have lead police departments and federal agencies to enhance their investigative ability, increase arrest and case clearance rates and show a direct rise in their conviction rates. Bill currently holds certification in both law enforcement training and instructor development.