INVESTIGATOR ROWAN NOW HELPING SPECIAL VICTIMS ........................
Date Posted:7/5/06

Sheriff Young honors Inv. Rowan witha plaque for his servie as a narcotics investigator.

Sheriff Morris A. Young honored Investigator Matt Rowan on Friday for his service as a Narcotics Investigator with the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office. Investigator Rowan has been with the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office Vice & Narcotics Unit for the last 5 years and has arrested and helped prosecute several drug dealers, users, and traffickers on both the state and federal level. Investigator Rowan, who is known for his thoroughness and meticulous paperwork, thought there was a need for a change in his career and when the need to have a Special Victims & Violent Crime Investigator at the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office he answered the call.

Sheriff Young states, "I was very pleased with Investigator Rowan as a Narcotics Investigator, his reputation as a law enforcement officer precedes him. His experience and thoroughness as an Investigator is what we need in a Special Victim's & Violent Crime Investigator and with the recent increase in these type cases requires a fulltime investigator with his work ethic. I am excited that he is stepping up to fill the position."

Lt. Corder, who was partners with Investigator Rowan for the past 8 years at both the Quincy Police Department and the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office, states "I was surprised that we lasted as partners and friends as long as we have. Everything between us was different, he is a Gator and I am a Seminole, I was in the Army and he was a Marine. His presence, experience and friendship will leave a void in the Unit."

Investigator Jenkins, who has experience with the Gadsden County Drug Task Force and has assisted the Vice & Narcotics Unit on previous investigations, will replace Rowan within the Vice & Narcotics Unit. Investigator Rowan's new duties will include, but not be limited to, investigating crimes against persons, sexual assaults, homicides and lewd and lascivious acts. Also honored was Special Agent Tonya Bryant-Smith of the Florida Department of Law Enforcemet for her work with the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office Vice & Narcotics Unit.