Sheriff Swanson and his team have arrested more than 100 individuals for sex trafficking throughout the state of Michigan and has garnered a 100% conviction rate of trafficking offenders. He and Marisol Nichols have successfully worked together on operations that brought child predators to justice.
Sheriff Swanson is a licensed paramedic and certified Medical Examiner Investigator and has led special protection teams for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Vice Presidents Al Gore, Dick Chaney, and Joe Biden. A career police officer for more than two decades, Sheriff Swanson’s agency is one of the only agencies in the State of Michigan with dual police officers and paramedics assigned to road patrol. He earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.