Carlos Sandoval is a senior law enforcement consultant and began his profession in July of 1986 serving as a Police Officer for the City of Arlington, Texas. In September of 1990 Sandoval began a 31-year career as a Special Agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives fighting violent crime. He was a member of the ATF National Response Team and assisted in investigating large scale arson and explosives violations. 

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Sandoval assigned to ATF in the Dallas Field Division, Tulsa, Oklahoma Field Office. Sandoval conducted investigative field work, and over one hundred undercover operations purchasing firearms, illegal firearms, explosives, contraband cigarettes, illegal liquor, controlled substances, and stolen property for Federal and State prosecution. Sandoval further conducted complex case investigations involving Mexican cartels, and ethnic gangs and utilized Rico statues to dismantle these organizations. Sandoval conducted over one thousand interviews with victims, witnesses, suspects, and defendants. Sandoval testified as an expert in Federal and State Judicial Districts in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and California for violations of firearm, controlled substance, violent offenses, and explosives. 

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Sandoval has served on assignment three federal judiciary districts in Oklahoma which include Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Muskogee, Oklahoma. 

 

Sandoval was born in Laredo, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.