2003 Conference Speakers


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John Moriarty, Inspector General
Texas Board of Criminal Justice

Mr. Moriarty is a graduate of the FBI National Academy with a career in law enforcement that has spanned over 20 years. He has served the state of Texas through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and the Texas Board of Criminal Justice (TBCJ) for 13 years and has over 8 years of service with local law enforcement. Mr. Moriarty began his law enforcement career as a uniformed police officer. In the progression of his career Mr. Moriarty has held a number of positions including, detective, sergeant, lieutenant, chief of the Fugitive Apprehension Unit and most recently, the Inspector General position for the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the TBCJ. As Inspector General, Mr. Moriarty is ultimately responsible for all criminal and administrative investigations of the TDCJ to include 105 prison facilities, 10 contracted prison transfer facilities, 151,000 prison or state jail offenders and 75,000 parolees.

John led the Texas 7 escape and apprehension investigation and conducted an in-depth presentation of the investigation from pre-escape to post-capture.

Investigator Patrick McCarthy
Chicago Police Department (Retired)

Back by popular demand!!

Pat McCarthy is a nationally recognized Gang Crime expert with over 25 years of law enforcement experience with the Chicago Police Department Gang Unit. Assigned to the FBI Violent Crime/Gang Task Force, Pat also worked as an undercover gang member, a "corrupt" cop, and a sniper on the Chicago S.W.A.T. Team. For the past 11 years he has served on three separate federal task forces. Pat instructed at the 2002 Western Robbery Conference and conducts a Street Crimes and Surveillance Techniques seminar for John E. Reid & Associates, Inc.

Pat lectured on interview and interrogation and will present effective techniques to obtain confessions.

Pat also conducts a full three day Street Crimes and Surveillance Techniques seminar. He donated a certificate entitling the bearer to attend the full seminar which was given away on the last day of the conference. Go to www.reid.com/training-gang2001.html for more details about Pat's seminar.

Detective Mike Woodings
Los Angeles Police Department

Mike has been with the LAPD since 1974. From 1988 to 1989 he was the intelligence officer for the Colombian Task Force, developing intelligence on organized South American theft group suspects. Det. Woodings is currently the officer-in-charge of the Organized Theft Detail, supervising efforts directed at the South American groups. Det. Woodings has received training on the South American groups from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Los Angeles Police Department. He has provided expert testimony in numerous courts.

Mike discussed the South American Theft Group and their relationship to armed robbery and other crimes throughout the country.

Officer Greg Romero
Denver Police Department

Greg worked as a patrol officer with the Northglenn Police department for five years before coming to the Denver Police Department in 1982. Greg has worked patrol, the mounted horse unit and the impact team and is currently assigned to the gang unit. Greg has lectured on identification and tracking of gangs to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies as well as at the National Gang and S.T.I.N.G. conferences.

Greg spoke to us about gang motivated and gang involved robbery.

Jim Wilson, Area Safety Supervisor
Loomis, Fargo & Co.

Jim is the Area Safety Manager for Loomis, Fargo and Company. He is responsible for the safety and training of 325 employees covering Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska. Jim worked in law enforcement for 21 years, serving with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department as an investigator working in the areas of Environmental Crimes, Special Investigations, Bomb Squad and Hazardous Materials. He began his law enforcement career with the Littleton, Colorado, Police Department. He has been a P.O.S.T. instructor for Arapahoe Community College for the Law Enforcement Training Academy, and EMT certification courses. An Instructor for Fire and Law Enforcement Departments, HAZMAT First Responder, and as an adjunct instructor for the EPA, FBI, BATF, OSHA and the Colorado Safety Association. Jim also served 4 years in the U.S Army, Military Intelligence.

Jim discussed the importance to us, as robbery investigators, of being familiar with armored truck safety and security procedures.

Detective Mark Woodward
Denver Police Department

Mark has been a Denver police officer for 27 years. He worked patrol for 12 years and has spent the last 15 years in the Criminal Investigation Division, 13 in the robbery unit. Mark has been associated with CARI throughout his tenure in the robbery unit.

Mark lectured on how to conduct serial robbery investigations and presented a recap of serial robberies in the metro-Denver area in 2002.

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