Drug Awareness Program

An invitation to Superintendents/ educational leaders to attend a screening of this eye-opening documentary film produced by the FBI and DEA.

Please join us for an educational and impactful program dealing with the current drug abuse epidemic. This event will focus on prescription/ opiate drug awareness and the dangers of usage as a gateway to heroin addiction. The goal of this program is to provide you with strategies and resources that you can then make available to your own community. For more information or to reserve your seat, please call 330-954-2228.

What:

Screening of Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict

When:

Thursday, September 1, 2016 ~ 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Where:

Aurora High School Library

109 W. Pioneer Trail, Aurora, Ohio

There will be a panel discussion following the program with members of The Drug Enforcement Administration, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, The United States Attorney’s Office and the Aurora Police Department.

More details on the documentary Chasing the Dragon can be found at : www.fbi.gov/ChasingTheDragon

Timothy J. Plancon Special Agent in Charge Detroit Field Division

Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Timothy J. Plancon received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University in 1991. Mr. Plancon entered the Washtenaw Michigan Police Academy in 1992 and was a police officer for the City of Ferndale, Michigan from 1993-1997 where he became a SWAT officer, evidence technician and field training officer. Mr. Plancon became a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1997 at the Detroit Division Office and, upon completion of the DEA Academy in Quantico, Virginia, was transferred to the New York Division, New York City Office in 1997. In 1998, Mr. Plancon completed a Master of Liberal Studies (MLS) Degree in Interdisciplinary Technology with concentrations in Information Security and Police Administration from Eastern Michigan University. He continued to serve in the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force until 2004 targeting some of the most notorious domestic and international illicit narcotic trafficking organizations. SAC Plancon transferred to the Detroit Division Office in 2004 and was promoted to a Supervisory Special Agent (Group Supervisor) position at the Detroit Division Office in 2006 where he led the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) funded combined Financial Investigations Team, Asset Removal Group, and the Oakland-Macomb Interdiction Team, which comprised the largest Task Force Group in the Detroit Division. As a Group Supervisor he oversaw the successful investigation of several major cases that not only targeted violent inner- city Drug Trafficking Organizations, but also international drug distribution and money laundering networks. In 2011, SAC Plancon was reassigned to DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia as an Inspector in the Office of Inspections. In 2013, Mr. Plancon was promoted to the position of Senior Inspector where he led teams of Inspectors during the on-site inspection of multiple domestic divisions, foreign regions, and other internal components. In March 2014, Mr. Plancon was selected for the position of Assistant Special Agent in Charge in the Detroit Field Division's Columbus District Office where he was responsible for supervising five DEA offices (Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown) covering the majority of Ohio. Mr. Plancon was instrumental in the creation and expansion of heroin overdose investigation teams in conjunction with leading DEA in the fight against the heroin and opioid epidemic throughout the State of Ohio. In March 2016, Mr. Plancon was selected for the position of Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Detroit Field Division where his area of responsibility encompasses the states of Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.

Carole S. Rendon Carole Rendon is the Acting Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. In that role, she is the chief federal law enforcement officer in Ohio’s northern 40 counties. The office is tasked with enforcing a wide range of criminal and civil statutes, including the prosecution of crimes including public corruption, civil rights, drug trafficking, fraud, human trafficking, firearms crimes and other violations. Carole served from 2009 through 2016 as the First Assistant United States Attorney. In that role, she was responsible for the daily operation of the United States Attorney’s Office, including oversight of significant civil and criminal matters, litigation, strategic planning, community outreach, agency coordination, and office policies and procedures. During that time, she was lead counsel on U.S. v. City of Cleveland , an exhaustive investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police which resulted in significant changes to areas including use of force, crisis intervention with the mentally ill, community engagement, bias-free policing, search and seizure, accountability, training, equipment and staffing. It is viewed as a national model for police reform. She was also instrumental in developing the U.S. Attorney’s Task Force on Heroin and Opioids, which seeks to find comprehensive solutions to Northern Ohio’s opioid epidemic. She also was a driving force behind the Northeast Ohio Cyber Consortium, a cross-sector public-private partnership designed to reduce the region’s vulnerability to cyber attacks. Carole is a 1987 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. She began her career as a law clerk to the Honorable Joel Flaum on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Carole then entered the Attorney General’s Honors Program in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice and was assigned to the Organized Crime Strike Force Unit in Boston, Massachusetts, which later was merged into the United States Attorney’s Office. In the Strike Force Carole handled a series of investigations and prosecutions of corruption in the Boston Police Department and International Asian Organized Crime. In April 1994, Carole became Chief of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, where she oversaw all of the major federal narcotics prosecutions. In 1998, Carole returned home to Cleveland and joined Messerman & Messerman. She later started the firm of Kushner & Rendon. In 2007, Carole seized the opportunity to join the women-owned litigation firm of Giffen & Kaminski. In each of those firms, Carole had both an active civil and criminal practice in federal and state court.

STEPHEN D. ANTHONY

Stephen D. Anthony began his career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a Special Agent in February 1988 and was assigned to the Memphis Division where he worked Violent Crime and Criminal Enterprise matters and served as the Team Leader on the Special Operations Group. After serving four years as Coordinator of the Safe Streets Task Force, he was promoted to the position of Field Supervisor in the Memphis Division where he supervised a squad responsible for investigating Violent Crime, Criminal Enterprise, Cyber and Drug matters. In 2003, Mr. Anthony was transferred to FBI Headquarters where he served as a Supervisory Special Agent, Unit Chief, and Assistant Section Chief in the Executive Development and Selection Program, Human Resources Division. In 2006, Mr. Anthony was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Washington Field Office, where he had oversight for all administrative matters. In April 2007, he began serving as Special Assistant to Director Mueller and in June 2009 was assigned as Deputy Program Manager for the Leadership Development Program. On January 3, 2011, Mr. Anthony assumed the position as the Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Office of the FBI. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Anthony served as an intern law clerk for a United States District Court Judge, Northern District of Ohio; a law clerk in the United States Attorney’s Office; and as an Attorney.