On-Demand Webinar: Understanding the Opioid and Methamphetamine Crisis - Trends, Dangers, and Protection Strategies

Brent Wood is a 31-year veteran of law enforcement in California. During his 31-years, Brent spent 27-years working on various narcotics related assignments. Throughout his narcotic career, Brent worked street level narcotics, methamphetamine and hash oil lab investigations, major narcotic traffickers and large-scale marijuana cultivations. For the final 15 years of his career, Brent was a CA DOJ special agent supervisor who served as a task force commander of a multi-agency, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) narcotic task force. The HIDTA task force’s primary mission was conducting large scale narcotic investigations on drug trafficking organizations operating in California. During the initial and ongoing phases of the fentanyl epidemic, Brent’s task force responded and processed each investigative scene involving a fentanyl overdose death. In 2021, Brent was the California Narcotic Officers Association (CNOA) President and is currently a member of the CNOA Executive Board.

Jeff Sweetin currently serves as a counter-narcotics consultant for Thermo Fisher Scientific. In 2012, Jeff completed a 30-year law enforcement career that began as a police officer in Arlington, VA, and continued with DEA, where he served in 7 domestic assignments including two executive leadership roles as the Special Agent in Charge of the Rocky Mountain Division in Denver, and the Agency’s Director of Training. After leaving the DEA, Jeff served in three private sector corporate security and executive leadership positions. In 2021, he brought his experience to Thermo Fisher Scientific, where he supports the company’s effort to bring technology to law enforcement. Jeff has a Bachelor’s Degree from Towson University and a Master’s in Education from the University of Virginia.