Gilberto Guerrero Jr.

Gilberto Guerrero Jr. is the Principal Associate Director for Prosecutorial Operations and Senior Component Official at the Executive Office for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF).

Mr. Guerrero has 26 years of prosecutorial experience, focused on organized violent crime and narcotics trafficking prosecutions.  He has been with the OCDETF Executive Office since September 2018 where he has furthered OCDETF’s mission of targeting, disrupting, and eliminating those priority Transnational Criminal Organizations posing the greatest threats to our nation’s public safety and our economic and national security.  Mr. Guerrero provides critical leadership of a variety of functions that impact the direction and oversight of the OCDETF program, including formulating, implementing, and managing guidelines, policies, and operational plans that synchronize law enforcement activities across agencies, incentivize cooperation, facilitate and expand information sharing, prioritize targeting national threats, and support joint operational planning.

Prior to joining the OCDETF Executive Office, Mr. Guerrero served as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia (USAO-DC) for 16 years, where he served as Chief of the Violent Crime and Narcotics Trafficking Section, supervising over 30 AUSAs investigating and prosecuting complex OCDETF cases, international narcotics investigations, and organized violent gang cases engaged in Racketeering (RICO) and violent crime.  As an AUSA, Mr. Guerrero served as the USAO-DC OCDETF Lead Task Force Attorney, Gang Coordinator, Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Coordinator, and Opioids Coordinator. Mr. Guerrero also served as the USAO-DC Coordinator for the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, representing four former United States Attorneys as a voting member on the HIDTA Executive Board.

Mr. Guerrero began his career in 1999, serving as an Assistant District Attorney for the Johnson County, Kansas District Attorney’s Office for three years, prosecuting drug offenses and violent crimes.

Mr. Guerrero earned his Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Kansas School of Law, where he was a member of the Criminal Prosecution Clinic and the Paul E. Wilson Defender Project, and his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Rhode Island, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Alpha Nu Honor Societies.