News Release

For further information please contact: Sgt. Jason Clark
(573) 522-0980
DDCC12102008
December 10, 2008

EMPHASIS: Promotion



Captain Luke Vislay, director of the Division of Drug and Crime Control, announces the promotion of Corporal Bruce W. Houston.

Corporal Bruce W. Houston will be promoted to the rank of sergeant on January 1, 2009, and remain in his current assignment within the Division of Drug and Crime Control. Houston was appointed to the Missouri State Highway Patrol on December 12, 1987. After graduating as a member of the 59th Recruit Class, he was assigned to Troop B and worked in Brookfield, Missouri. Houston was promoted to corporal in 1995, while assigned to Troop A, Johnson County. He has been a criminal investigator within the Division of Drug and Crime Control for the past 7 years, and will remain in that position, working closely with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force within the Organized Crime Unit. Houston graduated from Tipton High School in 1985, and currently resides in Warrensburg, Missouri.



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