Brian C. Dretke

Brian Dretke Brian grew up in New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1974 his family was transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Brian graduated from high school and went on to attend Oklahoma State University. He left college to enlist in the military where he trained as a Law Enforcement Specialist and was stationed at Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, Louisiana. While serving in the military, Brian completed his undergraduate degree at Louisiana State University. He and his wife, Khuelien, then returned to Tulsa where Brian began working for the Tulsa Police Department. He started in the patrol division and was selected for a position on the SWAT team where over the next few years he trained with the Los Angeles Special Enforcement Bureau and the Navy Seals. Thereafter, he was recruited to the departments fugitive warrants squad, a four-man plainclothes unit responsible for tracking and arresting violent offenders. Brian finished his police career assigned to the undercover narcotics unit, receiving the Chiefs Award in 1990 for a several month undercover operation in which he made dozens of hand-to-hand buys culminating in the arrest of over 30 suspects and the seizure of a significant amount of drugs and assets.