MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
A Division Of The
Department of Public Safety
Public Information and Education Division - PO Box 568 - Jefferson City, MO 65102
NEWS RELEASE

For further information please contact: Capt. J. Tim Hull
Q4302013-2 (573) 526-6115
April 30, 2013
EMPHASIS: Colonel Ron Replogle Announces Promotion


Colonel Ron Replogle announces the following promotion, which will be effective May 1, 2013:

Sergeant Leslie D. Thurston is being promoted to the rank of lieutenant and designated assistant director of the Information & Communications Technology Division, General Headquarters, Jefferson City, MO.

Thurston joined the Patrol on July 1, 1996, as a member of the 72nd Recruit Class. After graduating from the Patrol's Law Enforcement Academy, he was assigned to Troop I, Zone 2, Phelps County. He was promoted to corporal on October 15, 2006. Thurston transferred to the Training Division, General Headquarters, on July 1, 2007. On August 1, 2009, he was promoted to sergeant.

Lieutenant Thurston grew up in Rolla, MO. He graduated from Dexter High School in Dexter, MO, in 1986. He earned a bachelor's of science degree in criminal justice from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO. Lt. Thurston and his wife, Lourdes, have two children: Taylor and Torie.

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