Dustin Hamby, an 18-year veteran of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has been promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office (ARDEO) in Cleveland.
In his new role, Hamby will be responsible for the supervision of the Special Agents and Task Force Agents assigned to this work unit. ARDEO conducts high level drug investigations in the North Georgia area.
According to information released recently by the GBI, Hamby began his career with the agency as a Narcotics Agent at the Oconee Drug Task Force (ODTF) and the Macon Regional Drug Office. In 2005, ASAC Hamby was assigned as a Special Agent to the Region 1 Office in Calhoun. ASAC Hamby transferred to the Region 8 Office in Cleveland in 2006, where he was appointed as a Child Abuse Specialist, and served there until his promotion to ASAC. ASAC Hamby has also served as a Certified Law Enforcement Instructor for several years and has been one of the GBI agents responsible for teaching death investigations and interviews and interrogations to new GBI agents during that time.
Hamby's law enforcement career began in 2000 with the ODTF in Cochran as a Task Force Agent. He worked at the ODTF until 2002, when he accepted a position as a Narcotics Agent with the GBI. During ASAC Hamby’s time with the ODTF, he worked drug investigations in the Oconee Judicial Circuit.
Hamby received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of North Georgia in August of 2000.
