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 merican, Allied, and Afghan lives were saved because of the apprehension of these perpetrators of heinous acts against the Afghan people, which in turn uplifted and renewed the Afghan’s support of the United States.
 
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

Peter F.  Bo yce is a lawyer in private practice in the Atlanta area.  For much of his career, Peter has counseled and defended police officers, their supervisors, their departments, and the governmental entity which employs them when they are threatened with suit or sued for allegations of wrongful conduct.  As a nationally recognized speaker and instructor in many aspects of police civil liability, Mr.  Boyce has had the privilege and pleasure of making presentations to local, state, and federal law enforcement officers throughout the country on various liability issues associated with undercover drug enforcement work and a host of other topics directly related to police work.

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 Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc.  He has served as a city attorney for 20 years, a Special Assistant County Attorney for 13 years, and he has represented large metropolitan police departments, as well as small city police departments.  Mr. Boyce is currently the General Counsel for the National Drug Enforcement Officers Association, the oldest Federal, state and local narcotic cooperative in the country.

Dr. Harvey Goldstein

Dr. Harv ey Goldstein is a leader in the police psychology realm, founded the Law Enforcement Behavioral Science Association, and the Police Psychology Section of the American Psychological Association. Among his pioneering efforts were attention to the effects of shift work on police personnel and the establishment of a mandatory policy for traumatic incident debriefing, the first in the nation. Dr. Goldstein had served as an expert witness in high profile trials and before Congress on behavioral aspects of crisis management.  

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

Gene Bachman began his twenty-nine year career with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s predecessor agency, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, in 1970.  During his tenure with DEA, Special Agent Bachman was stationed in Jackson, MS; New Orleans, LO; Mobile, AL; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Atlanta, GA; Knoxville, TN; and several tours of duty in Washington, DC.  One of these tours was as the Chief Instructor in many Tactic-related courses, as he currently holds a 3^rd Degree Black Belt in Go Ju Karate.  In July, 1987 Special Agent Bachman entered DEA’s volunteer operation, entitled “Operation Snowcap”, a para-military operation in cocaine source countries of South America, with the objective of disrupting the flow of cocaine from source countries.  This involved the locating and destruction of clandestine air strips used to fly the cocaine out of the jungles of Peru and Bolivia, to Colombia.  During this time, Special Agent Bachman earned a Language Ability Level of 3 out of 5, in Spanish.  As apioneer, and Team Leader, Special Agent Bachman was called several times to testify before Congress, 
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 ssley, DDS, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland Dental School. A native of Rhode Island, Dr. Crossley received a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University of Rhode Island in 1964. He later was awarded Master of Science (1970) and doctoral degrees (1972) in pharmacology. The University of Maryland Dental School in Baltimore awarded Dr. Crossley his DDS in 1980. His role as liaison between the classroom and his dental practice produced a practical approach to understanding the pharmacology of drugs used in the dental office.Dr. Crossley has co-authored a number of articles and four books dealing with a variety of topics within the field of pharmacology. Other areas of expertise include the pharmacology of street drugs and chemical dependency. Dr. Crossley serves on the Maryland State Dental Association’s Well-Being Committee, was a member of the University Interdisciplinary Committee for Drug Abuse Education, and served on the Governor’s Commission on Prescription Drug Abuse. He is an active member of Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honorary Dental Society, the American College of Dentists, and International College of Dentists. He has been a consultant for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement agencies since 1974. Drawing on this unique background, Dr. Crossley has become nationally and internationally recognized as an expert on street drugs and chemical dependency as well as clinical pharmacology.

                                       
Michael E. Grimes

“Mike” Grimes is retired from 28 years service as a federal narcotics agent.  He served with the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the successor agency, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.  During his enforcement service Grimes served in the Washington, DC, and Wilmington, NC, offices with numerous TDY assignments in the United States and abroad.   Grimes, a leading expert in the field of informant development and control, is the author of “A Guide for Developing and Controlling Informants”, published by LawTech, Inc.  He is President of Criminal Investigation Techniques, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to protecting officers through risk assessment audits and establishing standards for informant handling.  During his career with DEA and since, Grimes has been a primary instructor in federal, state, and local law enforcement academies, in informant handling, report writing, and conducting asset forfeiture investigations.  He has also lectured extensively in community colleges and universities.  Grimes has taught thousands of law enforcement officers and prosecuting attorneys in agencies nationwide.   Grimes is the author of two magazine articles dealing with informants.  Grimes’ passion for teaching officers is immediately apparent in his classes and he has consistently received top ratings from his students on both knowledge and interest.   

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

 James Eagleson is  a highly trained expert in the field of commercial motor vehicle criminal interdiction.  He has worked as a full time interdiction K-9 Officer on the I-95 drug corridor for The South Carolina Department of Public Safety.  Before retiring from the South Carolina State Police, he has made over a thousand drug and criminal arrests.  He holds several records in South Carolina involving US currency and drug seizures in commercial motor vehicles and passenger vehicles.  In 2001, he was named Police Officer of the Year by three different departments.  He is also a Certified Instructor through the SC Criminal Justice Academy, as well as an Associate Instructor with EPIC, and Desert Snow.  James has the most requested class of the year, Hidden Assets in Commercial Motor Vehicles, used by DEA all across the country.  Those attending this class have already seized over a combined total of $2 million, just in 2007 alone!   These courses pay for themselves within a few weeks.

Rodney Pierce

DEA Task Force Officer Rodney Pierce has been a Monroe (NC) Police Officer for fourteen years before reaching the rank of Captain.  For the past two years Rodney has been assigned to the DEA Charlotte Drug Task Force, working major Narcotic Trafficking Investigations, including wire taps, indoor Cannabis Cultivations, and Methamphetamine Clan Labs and Trafficking.  For the past nine years Rodney has been an instructor for the Carolina’s Institute for Community Policing , traveling around the southeast US teaching Police Officers.  In 2006 he began an instructor for DEA, at all the DEA 2-Week Basic Narcotic Investigator Schools, conducted in DEA’s Atlanta Field Division.  Rodney received his associated degree in Police Science from Central Piedmont Community College in 1989, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Pfeiffer University in 2003.   Rodney’s experience, and ability to draw upon a vast selection of real-life stories, makes his classes enjoyable, and thought provoking. 

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.