David Drew

704-562-1728

David has 29 years of law enforcement experience. Before retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after 24 years, David was an Officer in the United States Navy and a Police Officer with the San Diego Police Department in California. When David retired from the FBI, he was a Supervisory Special Agent managing complex criminal investigations of national gangs, narcotic trafficking organizations, and violent Incident crimes to include cyber threats, cyber stalking, interstate domestic violence, and violent assaults. 

In his time as a Supervisory Special Agent, David also managed and investigated complex financial crimes, heath care fraud, money laundering, civil rights violations, and public corruption at the local, state, and federal levels. He also supervised all of Charlotte Division’s Critical Incident Response Programs including Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, Crisis Response and Negotiations programs, Special Agent Bomb Tech Programs, the FBI Surveillance Program, and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) programs, Radiological, Biological, and Chemical, throughout the state of North Carolina.  

David received extensive training in forensic crime scene analysis and was a Team Leader with the FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT). Between his experience as a police officer and a Special Agent, David has investigated hundreds of crime scenes, homicides, and violent crimes. David was also first responder to the Pentagon on 9/11 with the FBI’s ERT.  

As a Special Agent, David was the case agent on numerous investigations involving wire taps, undercover operations, consensual monitoring, surveillance, and search warrants. He has testified extensively in federal and state court cases and before the federal grand jury. David has worked on FBI Task Forces most of his career with Detectives and Agents from state and local law enforcement agencies. He is widely respected by local, state and Federal Agencies throughout North and South Carolina. David is licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina as a Private Investigator. 

As an Instructor, David has extensive training in firearms, tactics, arrests, and use of force. David was a certified FBI firearms instructor for over 18 years of his FBI career. David has also attended the North Carolina Justice Academy for training in the laws governing concealed handguns and the use of deadly force. He is certified by the National Rifle Association as a Basic Pistol Firearms Instructor. David is also certified by the North Carolina Department of Justice, Criminal Justice Standards Division, as a North Carolina Concealed Handgun Instructor. 

Julie Drew

Julie has 5 years experience as a Police Officer with the San Diego Police Department. She is originally from San Diego, California and attended college at Grossmont College in San Diego and the University of North Carolina - Charlotte (UNCC). During her tenure as a Police Officer, Julie worked in undercover operations and investigated gangs and narcotics trafficking in one of San Diego's patrol divisions with the highest crime rate. Julie relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina when David was hired by the FBI and assigned to the Charlotte Division. In 2005, Julie was hired by Red Bull Racing and spent the next 9 years working in NASCAR as a staff accountant, purchasing and manufacturing coordinator and an engineering liaison. Julie also has 9 years experience with United Parcel Service (UPS). Julie is licensed as a Private Investigator Associate with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Private Protective Services Board, and also works as the V.P. of Operations for Drew Investigative Consulting.

704-650-0553

Eric has worked in law enforcement for 21 years. Before retiring from the FBI as a Supervisory Special Agent, Eric managed the complex financial crimes, public corruption, health care fraud, forensic accounting and civil rights programs for the Charlotte Division of the FBI, covering the entire state of North Carolina. 

As a Special Agent, Eric investigated and supported the prosecution of public corruption, complex financial crimes, violent crime, crimes against children and illegal drug distribution. Eric performed investigations, collected evidence, interviewed and interrogated subjects, documented case activity, coordinated with prosecutors, and testified in court proceedings to secure convictions. Eric also investigated child kidnappings as the Crimes Against Children Coordinator. 

While working as a Special Agent, Eric was the Chief Division Counsel for the Charlotte Division of the FBI, advising agents, providing legal training and serving as the Chief Compliance/Ethics Officer.

Eric also served as a Team Leader, the Senior Team Leader and the Supervisor of the FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT). Eric deployed as a first responder to the Pentagon on 9/11 and deployed with the ERT in 2002 for World Trade Center recovery operations. Eric was a Team Leader on the ERT search of Top Ten Fugitive Eric Rudolph in 2003. Eric worked hundreds of crimes scenes to include over 50 homicides. Eric testified in numerous federal and state court cases, regarding investigations, interviews and crime scene collection and analysis. Eric investigated airline accidents to include Airways Express Flight 5481 at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in 2003.

Eric was a certified Special Agent Bomb Technician, receiving intensive training at Redstone Arsenal in the disruption, exploitation and mitigation of IEDs. Eric also has extensive post blast and large vehicle bomb training. 

Prior to his law enforcement career, Eric was engaged in the private practice of law for 5 years. Eric is licensed to practice law in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Eric received a law degree from the University of Baltimore and a BS in Psychology from Virginia Tech.

Greg Forest

704-450-0189

Greg’s career in law enforcement has spanned 34 years which began with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, where he served in several capacities from 1986 to 1995. While at CMPD Greg served on a Federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, as a Vice and Narcotics Investigator and as a member of the Narcotics Interdiction Task Force. He then joined the U.S. Probation Office in the Western District of North Carolina, rising to the rank of Senior U.S. Probation Officer, Drug and Alcohol Treatment Specialist. 

In 2002, he was appointed United States Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina by President George W. Bush. He served in this capacity until 2004, when he returned to the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Office as Chief U.S. Probation Officer until his retirement in 2015. As Chief U.S. Probation Officer Greg was responsible for the management of the organization to include the day-to-day management, administration, and direction of operations throughout the district. He directed and coordinated federal criminal investigations on defendants and offenders under supervision.

Following his retirement, Greg was the Deputy Director of International Trade Compliance for IOMAX USA, Inc. an Aerospace and Defense Contractor, located in Mooresville, NC.

In 2018, Greg was again appointed as the United States Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina.  As U.S. Marshal Greg was responsible for the management, administration, and direction of operations throughout the Western District of North Carolina. Greg directed a staff that covers a thirty-two-county area in the protection of the United States Courts, United States Courthouses, federal criminal investigations, execution of federal court orders and other law enforcement activities. 

In 2021, the Federal Judges in the Western District of North Carolina asked Greg to return to the Western District of North Carolina as the Chief U.S. Probation Officer, a position that he held until his retirement in 2023.

Forest holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  

Carl Robbins served as the Town of Mooresville (NC) Chief of Police from 2008 until his retirement in December of 2015. He began his career with the Mooresville Police Department in 1994 as a detective. During his 21 year career in Mooresville, he served in various capacities including supervision of the Criminal Investigations unit. 

While serving as chief, the Mooresville Police Department earned the distinction of achieving National Accreditation. Robbins and his department were recognized for their focus on service to the community, collaborative efforts with community stakeholders, community partnerships and successful crime prevention initiatives. Robbins also served as a Regional Director for the North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police and is the former coordinator of the local crime stopper board.

Before joining the Mooresville Police Department, he served as a police officer in his hometown of Cornelius, North Carolina. In addition to his experience with the Cornelius Police Department, he also spent time as an on-call investigator with the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office in Charlotte. While serving in that capacity, he assisted in the investigation of homicides, suicides, accidental and equivocal deaths. He also served as an Adjunct Instructor for Mitchell Community College in Statesville and taught various curriculum courses in Criminal Justice, including a course in Criminalistics. 

Carl graduated from Presbyterian College and received his Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Alabama. He participated in additional post graduate work in Leadership and Management at the University of Louisville. He is a graduate of the 113th Session of the Administrative Officers Course through the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville and of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Carolina Command College. His training and experience in policy development, administrative investigations and cold case investigations have contributed to his focus on professionalism and effectiveness. Through training and practical application, he is also well versed in recruiting, hiring and retaining police officers.

Kevin Pakulniewicz

Kevin retired from the FBI after 23 years of fieldwork as a Special Agent. Most of those years were spent as a Technically Trained Agent where he performed wiretaps, conducted covert audio and video surveillance, worked with sophisticated monitoring equipment to perform “bug sweeps”, worked with transmission and receive devices, GPS trackers, and network delivery solutions related to every aspect of complex FBI investigations. Kevin received his Technical Surveillance Counter Measures (TSCM) training at the U.S. Government Interagency Training Center.

As a Special Agent, Kevin was stationed in Arizona and North Carolina, where he worked a wide variety of violent crime, drug, counter terrorism, public corruption, white collar and cyber crimes. Kevin successfully investigated, prosecuted and convicted multiple public officials and was the lead investigator on dozens of murder and assault cases. Through this work, he gained extensive experience in undercover investigations, interview and interrogation, evidence collection and report writing. Kevin has testified extensively in federal, state, and local courts. Kevin served as a Team Leader for the FBI’s Evidence Response Team and worked hundreds of crime scenes in that capacity. Kevin has served as an FBI certified instructor for police agencies both domestic and international. He has taught over 500 students domestically and more than 300 international students in 13 different countries in the subject areas of crime scene processing, post-blast investigations, law enforcement tactics, interviewing, and public corruption.

Prior to his time with the FBI, Kevin worked for the DEA for 7 years as a Forensic Chemist in Washington, DC where he handled evidence and performed drug analysis on street level narcotics and regularly testified in court. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Old Dominion University.

Upon retirement from the FBI, Kevin established Paktech Security (paktechsecurity.com) and obtained his North Carolina Electronic Countermeasures license. He is one of a very small number of licensed operators in the state of North Carolina. He is also a licensed Private Investigator in North Carolina.

Daniel Lucero

Dan has over two decades of experience in federal law enforcement. As a Special Agent with the FBI, he focused on investigating and facilitating the prosecution of various offenses, including public corruption, civil rights violations, complex financial crimes, child exploitation, and healthcare fraud. His responsibilities included conducting investigations, gathering evidence, interviewing and interrogating individuals, documenting case activities, collaborating with prosecutors, and providing testimony in court to achieve convictions.

In addition, Dan held the position of Team Leader and subsequently Senior Team Leader for the FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT). He played a crucial role as Team Leader during significant investigations, such as the Boston Bombing, an officer ambush in Florence, South Carolina, and an international terrorism case in New Bern, North Carolina. Throughout his career, he oversaw the processing of more than 100 crime scenes related to homicides, shootings, and utilized specialized forensic techniques. His court testimonies have spanned numerous federal and state cases concerning investigations, interviews, and the collection and analysis of crime scene evidence.

Dan has also been an instructor for crime scene investigation courses tailored for state and local law enforcement agencies, both at the FBI Laboratory and the FBI Academy. Additionally, he taught classes on crime scene investigation techniques at International Law Enforcement Academies located in San Salvador, El Salvador, Budapest, Hungary, and Gaborone, Botswana.

Before embarking on his law enforcement career, Dan dedicated 11 years to working as an Environmental Engineer with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, serving in the regional offices of Philadelphia and Atlanta.

Tonya Smith

Tonya was a North Carolina Criminal Investigator and Federal Bureau of Investigation Task Force Officer with over 30 years’ experience in law enforcement until retirement in 2024.

A native of the Tarheel state, Tonya grew up in Warren County and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a degree in Criminal Justice. Following graduation, she became a NC Probation and Parole Officer prior to becoming a Criminal Investigator with the Special Operations and Intelligence Unit of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.

For the last 16 years of her career, she was assigned to the Raleigh Resident Agency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Task Force Officer serving on the Raleigh Durham Safe Streets Task Force for 4 years and the White Collar/Public Corruption Task Force for 12 years.

Tonya investigated numerous public corruption cases to include law enforcement and elected officials at the local, state and federal levels. She also investigated civil rights, money laundering, financial crimes, extortion, bribery, murder for hire, kidnapping, Hobbs Act violations, drug trafficking/conspiracy and gang cases. Tonya worked and led state and federal search warrants, undercover operations and Title III (Wire Intercepts). She has experience testifying in federal grand jury and state and federal courts. She also worked with the United States Department of Justice on public corruption and civil rights investigations.

In addition to her extensive investigative experience, Tonya responded to and assisted with critical incidents to include Amber Alerts, missing persons, homicides, kidnappings and natural disasters.

During her career, Tonya led a North Carolina fugitive initiative coined “Operation Arrow”. The initiative resulted in the capture and service of over 13,000 misdemeanor and felony warrants.

She has logged over 2,500 training hours in state and federal law enforcement to include advanced interview and interrogation, discovery training, uniform legal, law and policy training, cyber security, surveillance techniques, FBI evidence response and field medic.

Tonya was recognized for her exemplary work by receiving both the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Badge of Excellence in 2016 and the United States Assistant Attorney General Award for Distinguished Service in Public Corruption in 2022.