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Gun Crime Investigations Training Conference and Seminar

Heartland Law Enforcement Training Institute Presents

Gun Crime Investigations

Training Conference and Seminar

May 18-20, 2026

Ormond Beach Police Department

A three-day (24 hour) training program designed for law enforcement investigators, officers, supervisors, administrators, intelligence analysts and prosecutors who are interested in combating gun related crimes within their communities.

The instructors for this program have combined in the prosecutions of over 500 defendants in Federal and State courts for firearms related violations and the techniques presented have been proven successful in targeting violent offenders that are the source of violent crime that impacts every community.

Of key importance is the fact that these techniques can be immediately implemented regardless of the agency size and can almost immediately show a reduction in gun crime which will also positively impact drug and gang activities.

Conducting Effective Interviews on Felons in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition
Gun Trafficking Investigations
Understanding NIBIN
Conducting Storefront Operations
The Nexus between Gangs, Drugs and Firearms
Case Preparation and Presentation
Murder for Hire Investigations
Gang Related Gun Crimes

Registration Form PDF

Please scan and E-Mail registration forms to hletitraining@sbcglobal.net

Instructors

Steve Cook - Steve is a Detective with a Law Enforcement agency in the Kansas City Metropolitan area and has over 31 years of Law Enforcement experience. Steve is considered an international expert in the area of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs and is frequently called upon by media Read More outlets in the US and abroad to be interviewed about on-going activities and trends relating to Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.

Steve has been featured three times on the History Channel’s Gangland program, on the Biography program Gangworld One Percenters, twice on the Biography program Gangsters “America’s Most Evil”, History Channels “Book of Secrets”, American Heroes Channel “Codes and Conspiracies-Outlaw Bikers”, Escape Networks “Deep Undercover”, WGN America’s “Outlaw Country”, A&E'S Secrets of the Hells Angels, and History Channels Gangland Chronicles and has been featured in a French documentary on the Hells Angels and Bandidos war in Europe. Steve also appeared on and was a consulting producer on VICE TV's United Gangs of America episode on the Bandidos and was a consulting producer on Investigation Discovery's show Operation Undercover-Guns and Drugs in Carolina. Steve has also been interviewed on The O’Reilly Factor, Inside Edition, Erin Burnett “OutFront”, NPR and Don Lemon Tonight.

Steve is a sought-after expert witness and consultant, and his services have been retained in several criminal and civil matters all over the country. Steve also provides training on Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Undercover Operations, and Firearm Investigations to Law Enforcement officers all over the country.

In addition, Steve has worked Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs in traditional Law Enforcement capacities as well as in an undercover capacity and has successfully prosecuted members of several international OMG’s in state and federal courts for firearms, kidnapping, aggravated assault, drug trafficking, and VICAR (Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering) charges in addition to working several patched members of different motorcycle gangs as sources. Steve’s knowledge of these types of investigations led to him being sent by the Department of Justice to Kosovo to train Judges and Prosecutors about how Covert Operations work. Read Less

Lou Valoze - The Only Undercover Agent in History to Buy Over 1,000 Crime Guns. Lou is a highly decorated federal agent who’s worked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), U.S. Marshals, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service for twenty-six years. Read More He spent the last two decades of his career working in an undercover capacity for long term, high profile and complex investigations of home invasion crews, outlaw motorcycle gangs, organized crime groups, murder-for-hire schemes, and conducting storefront operations. Throughout his career he was deployed to various areas in the country to work in an undercover capacity to infiltrate criminal organizations. Lou is the only undercover agent in history to purchase over 1,000 crime guns during his career. Lou once posed as a hit man in a murder-for-hire scheme where a doctor hired him to kill his wife and provided Lou with the gun to commit the murder. Based upon conversations Lou had with the doctor on his undercover cell phone, Congress was prompted to change the federal murder-for-hire statute as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in that case. Read Less

Other Instructors to be Announced