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BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey D. Sweetin
Special Agent in Charge
Denver Field Division

On January 12, 2003, Special Agent Jeffrey D. Sweetin was appointed to the Senior Executive Service of the United States of America as the Special Agent in Charge of the Denver Field Division for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The Denver Field Division encompasses eleven offices in four states including Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana. Mr. Sweetin is responsible for the agency's daily enforcement operations, drug diversion investigations, and administers DEA policy through three (3) Assistant Special Agents in Charge and a Diversion Program Manager.

Special Agent Sweetin began his law enforcement career in 1982 as an Officer in the Arlington County Virginia Police Department where he served in various capacities as uniform patrol, SWAT and plain-clothes investigations. Mr. Sweetin entered on duty as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1986 and was assigned to the Washington D.C. Division Office and subsequently to the Ft. Lauderdale District Office and the Office of Training, Quantico, VA. While assigned to the Office of Training, Mr. Sweetin developed DEA's Ethics and Professionalism Program and initiated training in Post-Shooting Response for Agents and Supervisors.

In 1995, Mr. Sweetin was assigned to the Miami Field Division as a Group Supervisor for the Florida Joint Task Force/Vice President's Task Force and held positions as the Supervisor for DEA Enforcement Group 15 and the Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) through 1998.

He later served as Staff Coordinator for the Mobile Enforcement Team Program at DEA Headquarters and in 1999 was assigned as Executive Assistant to DEA's Chief of Operations at DEA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. In July 2002, Mr. Sweetin was promoted to the Denver Field Division as Assistant Special Agent in Charge.

Mr. Sweetin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice that he received in 1982 from Towson State University, Baltimore, Maryland, and has attended George Washington University Graduate School eventually earning a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Virginia in 1994. He has been married to his wife Donna and has two sons Michael and T.J.