Written by a 30-year law enforcement veteran, this new look book takes a close focus at criminal evidence. The fresh approach shows the practical aspects of evidence collection and court admissibility as it effects police officers and criminal investigators. Designed to give an understanding of what evidence is, how it can be legally obtained, and how it is introduced at trial, Practical Criminal Evidence provides a great perspective for more effective law enforcement officers. Emphasizes real life situations that inform the reader of contemporary issues that face law enforcement officers today. Step-by-step approach on evidence collection, crime scene safety, search warrants and trial preparation. Extensive coverage on search warrants and an appendix with an actual state search warrant included. Serves as a desk reference for law enforcement professional throughout their careers.
Gregory D. Lee is a nationally syndicated columnist who is a retired Supervisory Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He is also a former instructor for DEA'S Office of Training at the FBI Academy, Quantico, VA. As a criminal justice consultant, he provides a wide range of consulting, training, and expert witness services for the legal community and law enforcement agencies.
He has appeared on CNN Newsroom, Larry King Live, and the Fox News Channel's On the Record, with Greta Van Susteren. He is a frequent guest on radio talk shows and has been quoted by numerous domestic and international newspapers and magazines.
Based in Central California's beautiful Monterey Peninsula, Greg writes a weekly column for www.NorthStarNational.com, and he is a Contributing Editor for www.FamilySecurityMatters.org. His columns can be found on many other websites and read by visiting his website: www.gregorydlee.com.
Greg literally wrote the book on drug investigations. He is the author of Global Drug Enforcement: Practical Investigative Techniques, published by CRC Press (2004). Prentice Hall publishes his other two books, Conspiracy Investigations: Terrorism, Drugs and Gangs (2005) and Practical Criminal Evidence (2006). At the invitation of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, he wrote "The Global Drug Trade and its Nexus to Terrorism," which is chapter 11 of Volume II, Part II, of Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives, Praeger Security International/Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (2007). Throughout his DEA career he wrote numerous articles for professional law enforcement publications.
He was the last Resident Agent in Charge of DEA's Karachi Office, and lived and worked throughout Pakistan between 1994 and 1998, experiencing terrorism first-hand. The office finally closed after it became too dangerous to continue operations there, even for the cowboys of DEA. In 1995, while assigned at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, he directly participated in the arrest of Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 New York City World Trade Center bombing, collected vital evidence and later testified at his trial. At the time of his arrest, Yousef was plotting to destroy 12 U.S. airliners simultaneously over the Pacific Ocean, which would have caused the deaths of over 3,600 people, more than that experienced on 9/11. He appeared on the Discovery Channel's documentary show, The FBI Files, concerning his contributions in the arrest of Mir Aimal Kanzi, the lone terrorist who murdered two CIA employees outside their headquarters in 1993. While in Karachi, he was involved in the initial investigation of the killing of four U.S. Citizen employees of the United Texas Petroleum Company, and their Pakistani driver, by terrorists.
Greg's last DEA assignment was at the Los Angeles Division as the Coordinator for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Program.
Prior to his assignment in Pakistan, Greg was an instructor at DEA's Office of Training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia where he trained many domestic and foreign law enforcement officials around the world.
In 1990, he was a counselor and graduate of the 160th Session of the FBI National Academy.
He has guest lectured for the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy, West Point the Defense Intelligence Agency's Joint Military Intelligence Training Center, Washington, DC and the Department of Defense Executive Management Development and Training Program, sponsored by The George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs, Washington, DC. He is also a frequent guest of radio talk shows throughout the country.
In 2005, Mr. Lee was selected as the Lead Instructor for the U.S. Department of State's Antiterrorism Assistance Program's 9-week "Preventing, Interdicting and Investigating Acts of Terrorism" course conducted in Islamabad, Pakistan. He last visited the Northwest Frontier Provence of Pakistan in 2007 when he trained Pakistani police in operational planning.
