PACG names Gainesville man Investigator of the Year

GAINESVILLE - Maurice Gregory, chief investigator for the Hall County District Attorney's Office, was recently named Investigator of the Year by the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia (PACG).

The award was presented at the group's summer conference.

District Attorney Lee Darragh said Gregory was honored for his career as a whole, but particularly for his work in a child molestation case involving the molestation of two young boys.

"He was especially effective in his assistance in the technological preparation of courtroom evidence and the transfer of seized video evidence to be courtroom ready," Darragh added. "He was instrumental in the prosecution team's evaluation and preparation of direct evidence and of rebuttal to the defense case. He and the others on the team worked many overtime hours at night and on weekends to assure that justice would be accomplished. His contribution in assisting the prosecutors in preparation and in court on the case, in which the defendant received two consecutive life sentences, significantly helped the team do just that."

Gregory is a veteran Hall County law enforcement officer, who began his career in 1987 as a patrol officer with the sheriff's department. In 1989, he was assigned to the sheriff's office Traffic Enforcement Unit and in 1992 he was promoted to sergeant and transferred to the sheriff's Property and Evidence Division. He joined the D.A.'s office as an investigator in 1999.