Detective Sergeant
Lake County Sheriff'S Department
Worked in nearly every division of the department. Scott has extensive training and experience in law enforcement, computer technology, as well as computer forensics. He is a veteran investigator and retired Law Enforcement Officer holding the rank of Detective Sergeant. During the latter half of his law enforcement carrier, Scott was assigned to a HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) as a dually sworn Federal Task Force Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) where he received extensive formal training in Computer Forensics and was assigned to the High Tech Crime Support Unit where he was named Director. Scott worked very challenging and high profile cases, both federal and state, in crimes involving death investigations, kidnapping, drugs, clandestine laboratories, sex crimes, crimes against children, public corruption, missing juveniles, identity theft, fraud, & counterfeiting.Scott had significant experience providing training of computer forensic classes to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies as well as state and federal prosecuting attorneys.