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Brian Surber is currently the first assistant district attorney for the Twelfth Judicial District for Rogers, Mayes, and Craig Counties.  Surber was formerly a special agent with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics assigned to the Tulsa office.  Surber graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1993 and from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1996.  After graduating law school, Surber served as an assistant district attorney and director of the Eighth District Drug Task Force for 8 years.  In 2004, Surber went to work for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics as the deputy general counsel primarily supervising and prosecuting wiretap cases and overseeing practitioners registered with the Bureau.  He also was appointed a special assistant district attorney in numerous jurisdictions as well as a special assistant attorney general in 2005, 2015, and 2017.  In addition to his legal duties, Surber was commissioned as an agent in April of 2006.  Shortly after being appointed general counsel in late 2006, Surber resigned from the legal division to become a full-time special agent.  Surber is currently a special assistant United States Attorney (SAUSA) for the Northern District of Oklahoma.  

Surber has prosecuted thousands of narcotics cases and was the 2001-02 Association of Oklahoma Narcotic Enforcers State Prosecutor of the Year, the 2005 Distinguished Adjunct Faculty award winner for Northern Oklahoma College, the 2011-12 Association of Oklahoma Narcotics Enforcers State Officer of the Year, the 2012-13 recipient of Association of Oklahoma Narcotic Enforcers Outstanding Achievement award, and the 2015 Rogers County Co-Prosecutor of the Year and has received additional awards from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Postal Inspector.  He has also taught over three hundred (300) seminars in fourteen states, primarily in the areas of the Fourth Amendment and narcotics laws.  Surber also authored The Police Officer’s Guide to the Fourth Amendment and Miranda, The Investigator’s Guide to Search and Seizure as well as The Prosecutor’s Guide to Fourth and Fifth Amendment Motions to Suppress.  He is also the author of the Oklahoma Drug Prosecutor’s Desk Reference.  Surber has also written over twenty-five additional resources and numerous articles for law enforcement publications and the author of the recently released book Injustice for All – The (Familiar) Fallacies of Criminal Justice Reform available on Amazon and multiple digital platforms.