The back of a DEA vest is shown.
CATLETTSBURG While certainly Dr. Seuss didnât have Jack Sparks in mind when he wrote âOh the Places Youâll Go,â the message certainly tracks for the DEA agentâs long and well-traveled career.
Born in Boyd, Sparks put himself through college at then-Ashland Community College and Marshall University before becoming a patrolman for the Raceland Police Department back in 1989. In the 1990s, he worked as a detective for the Fivco Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, where he sank his teeth into narcotics work.
Sparks put in for a position at the DEA in 1994 â two years later, he found himself with a federal badge working drug cases in Miami, Florida. From there, Sparks went around the globe doing his part to stamp out the scourge of drugs â Texas, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cyprus and Washington, D.C., to name a few.