Intelligence Led Policing in the Prison
Casey Clawson and Joe Adams 

Agents Clawson and Adams are presenting a training class that examines real-world threats and narcotics investigations drawn from their work with the Utah Department of Corrections. The class introduces the newly established UDC Intelligence Reentry Intervention Safety (IRIS) Center and highlights the department’s commitment to expanding intelligence-led policing and improving intelligence sharing across agencies. Through case studies, Agents Clawson and Adams illustrate the critical role of intelligence-led policing in corrections and its broader importance to the entire law enforcement community.
Casey Clawson entered law enforcement in 2017 at the Salt Lake County Jail. He joined Adult Probation and Parole in 2019, supervising a male caseload and serving on the Fugitive Response Team (FRT). In 2021, he became a part-time Task Force Officer with the Salt Lake Metro Gang Unit (MGU). In 2024, he was assigned full-time as a TFO with MGU through the Utah Department of Corrections Law Enforcement Bureau (LEB). He now works as a narcotics diversion and interdiction investigator at the UDC Intelligence Reentry Intervention Safety (IRIS) Center
Joe Adams began his career in public service in 2006 as a U.S. Army Human Intelligence Collector, later serving in counterintelligence roles supporting force protection and threat detection. He transitioned into law enforcement with the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office before joining the Utah Department of Corrections, where he currently serves in the Law Enforcement Bureau as a Threat Management Agent. His work focuses on investigating prison gangs and Security Threat Groups, analyzing inmate and third-party communications, mapping gang command structures, and conducting behavioral threat assessments to disrupt organized criminal activity and targeted violence. He is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute and holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

Build Your Team
Justin Mortensen 

This course was designed to encourage attendees to meet and network with deputies, officers, agents and detectives from attending agencies. In the world of gang investigations and enforcement, there will be a time you will need to reach out to someone or another agency for assistance with a case. Having the right name and phone number can be the difference between closing a case, locating a suspect or winning a court case. As we all know, in gang investigations, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
Justin “Morty” Mortensen retired from the Utah County Sheriff’s Office in 2025. He began his career in Law Enforcement in 1997 when he joined the UCSO as a civilian in the control room in the jail. Throughout his career he worked in the jail, was a member of the DRT Team and a 20+ year member of the firearm staff. After leaving the jail for patrol, Morty became skilled in narcotic investigations and was later selected as a detective for the Utah County Special Enforcement Team that specialized in street level drug distributions, community problems, fugitive apprehension and assisting in homicide cases. After SET he moved to the Major Crimes Task Force as a drug trafficking organization detective. Morty has a network of contacts from all over the world in narcotics and gang enforcement groups. He is a board member of UGIA and current member of the Tri State Intelligence Group and the International Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Investigators Association (IOMGIA).

Dark Web Investigations 
Martin Hurst 

The Dark Web is the part of the Internet that isn’t necessarily malicious, but is simply too obscure to be indexed, and fully identified.  It is used by those who are purposely trying to control access, because they have a strong desire for privacy, or because what they’re doing may be perceived as unlawful, unethical, and immoral. A pdf of this instructional session will be provided to every attendee for further review after the course. This course will cover dark web origins, using the TOR browser, launching investigations, how and why products get to consumers and more. 
Martin Hurst is the Police Inspector in charge of Innovation and Project Delivery for the Metro Vancouver Transit Police in British Columbia, Canada. He is responsible for tech-based start-up deliverables such as Artificial Intelligence integration, drones, body worn cameras, ArcGIS mapping, TAK monitoring, and Open Source Intelligence. He has lectured on Internet Investigation techniques throughout Europe, Australia, and North America. Martin is also an adjunct professor at the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the British Columbia institute of Technology, where he instructs on Internet. His nearly 30-year career path includes his time as a police officer, human trafficking social worker, and youth gang probation officer.
   
Human Trafficking Investigations
Bill Loucks

This provocative course includes classroom lessons enhanced by practical exercises to identify, expose, interdict, and investigate human trafficking crimes as well as the identification, protection, and rescue of trafficking victims. This class will expose the nexus between human trafficking, gangs, sex workers, drug traffickers, and the many types of human trafficking. Students will learn how to identify trafficking in their own jurisdictions. Students will learn the connection of human trafficking to terrorism, transnational criminal organization, drug cartels, street gangs, and learn various US trafficking routes, online sex trafficking and enticement, and the resources available to assist law enforcement and victims.
Bill comes with over 21 years of combined experience in law enforcement, primarily as a gang and narcotics detective, where he repeatedly identified human trafficking victims and traffickers within his casework. He further solidified his expertise by serving as the NC Senior Investigator for Hope for Justice, actively engaging in the prevention, investigation, and interdiction of human trafficking across the U.S. A career specialist in covert operations, Loucks dedicated significant time to working undercover, conducting surveillance, and planning and executing undercover operations while also training and supervising new personnel, leading him to be widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading investigators in human trafficking cases.

Building a Long Term Investigation
Kevin Worwood and Omar Flores 

The class instructors have vast experience and knowledge in various aspects of criminal investigations from simple drug possession to complex homicide cases. Instructors have been instrumental in identifying suspects and solving high profile gang involved homicides, which may have been delayed or gone unsolved without their knowledge and experience. Detective Worwood has been involved with an investigation into a local street gang that started with what appeared to be juveniles selling THC cartridges, that moved all the way through wire taps and ended with significant state and federal charges on numerous members of the gang. Detective Flores has been instrumental in investigations that appeared to be on the surface a simple shots fired with no suspect call, resulting in suspects being identified and arrests being made. Both detectives together have the skill of taking something simple and making it into a long-term and in-depth case. The two of them will take you through different techniques and experiences they have used to create these cases and get results that have made an impact on the streets and the community.
Detective Worwood has been in Law Enforcement for 10 years with the Sandy Police Department, where he has been in several different positions to include patrol, school resource officer, crime suppression unit, and most recently assigned to the Metro Gang Unit. He has been part of several long-term narcotics, gangs, and firearm investigations. He has gained a vast knowledge of how gangs are using social media and while investigating other cases he has been able to obtain information used to solve several robberies committed by local gangs. He has been a part of numerous federal investigations including a federal RICO case into a local street gang, assisting with dismantling the upper leadership of the gang.
Detective Flores is employed by the Unified Police Department. Detective Flores has 14 years’ experience in law enforcement to include a background in homicide, gangs, officer involved critical incidents, violent and major crime investigations, and patrol functions. Detective Flores is also currently assigned as a crisis negotiator and peer support team member. Detective Flores was formerly employed by the Salt Lake County Sherriff’s Office as corrections officer. Detective Flores graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelors in Sociology and Criminology.

Undercover Operations
Shane Abraham 

During the two-hour course, SA Abraham will focus on considerations in setting up and creating a law enforcement controlled undercover location and business, discuss current trends in the use of law enforcement controlled undercover locations, and provide specific case related examples using undercover videos and scenarios to illustrate how an undercover location can be used to specifically target violent crime, criminal street gangs, and transnational criminal organizations. SA Abraham will discuss case studies of recent undercover investigations to show how utilizing an undercover location enabled law enforcement to target criminal street gangs and transnational criminal organizations and establish credibility for the undercover agent and subsequently expand the scope of the investigation to both national and international targets resulting in a successful federal prosecution.
Special Agent (SA) Abraham has been employed as an ATF Special Agent since August 2000, and prior to becoming a Special Agent, SA Abraham was employed as Police Officer with the Denver Department Police in Denver, CO, and as a United States Border Patrol Agent in Douglas, AZ. During his career in ATF, SA Abraham has focused on conducting undercover operations and working complex criminal street gang investigations. Since 2014, SA Abraham has been a member of ATF’s Enhanced Undercover Program (EUP) and currently specializes in setting up and operating undercover locations and undercover businesses throughout the country. SA Abraham is currently assigned to ATF’S Special Operations Division/Undercover Branch as a Special Agent/Project Officer/Regional Undercover Operator. 

The Truth about OMG’s
Jeff Viles and Special Guest

This class will outline the 10-year career of Malachi, a former Vagos President, including his involvement in a shootout with a rival gang where his younger brother was murdered. Attendees will learn everything needed to know about OMG ranks, patches, protocol, tattoos, weapons, crash vehicles, and drug concealment. The instructors will describe in detail the seductive allurement into the criminal camaraderie that is nothing more than a facade to keep the well-oiled OMG machine churning out new members.
Jeff Viles is a 30-year veteran of law enforcement and has been assigned to the Mohave County GIITEM Gang Task Force for nearly twenty-five years. Detective Viles is tasked with investigating criminal activity, gathering, and disseminating intelligence as it pertains to Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMG). During his career, he has been involved in every type of criminal investigation at the local, state and federal levels. Detective Viles has been the case detective in many large-scale OMG investigations and has assisted in several multi-agency investigations involving the Hells Angels, Vagos, Mongols and Pagan’s. Detective Viles has cultivated numerous informants throughout his career that has assisted in successful dismantling of OMGs and street gangs alike. Detective Viles has proudly served as an AZGIA Board member for 15 years and currently serves as the association’s president.