(Photo Provided) From left, retired Sgt. Commander Guy L. Brown II poses with Joe Manchin, the former governor and U.S. senator from West Virginia. Brown was the lead safety liaison for Manchin and developed the safety protocols for when he made visits.

PARKERSBURG — A hometown hero from Parkersburg is an accomplished sexual predator investigator.

Retired Sgt. Commander Guy L. Brown II was the commander at the Parkersburg detachment of the West Virginia State Police where he also worked with the U.S. Marshals Service hunting and preventing sexual predators and human traffickers. He also was in charge of all registered sexual offenders in Wood County.

“I was important in the life of a child and that made all the difference,” Brown said.

He transferred to the detachment at St. Marys and retired in 2015.

Brown, 59, spent more than 30 years in the State Police and in government service. After he retired from the State Police, Brown went to work with the Division of Military Affairs and Protective Services with the Capitol Police under the administration of Gov. Jim Justice from 2017-2021. His nickname was G-Force.

(Photo Provided) One of the awards received by retired Sgt. Commander Guy L. Brown II. He was the detachment commander in Parkersburg.

“I was on the governor’s protection team,” Brown said.

Besides the Marshals Service, Brown has worked with numerous federal agencies including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and the Secret Service and ATF, among others. He received an award for dedication from the Marshals Service in 2007.

Brown also is the only trooper from West Virginia to be included in Who’s Who and was put in the publication in 2024.

“The West Virginia State Police was created in 1919,” Brown said. “I was the only one selected for Who’s Who in the Most Distinguished Americans in Law Enforcement in the entire 106-year history of the State Police.”

In his work finding sexual predators and human traffickers and helping their victims, Brown was involved with Operation Underground Railroad that hunts human traffickers and saves their victims, both nationally and internationally, after he retired.

“My husband is very humble about it all and very few people know about this,” his wife, Laura, said. “My husband was one of the most decorated State Troopers of his era, plus having a distinguished 100% conviction rate for suspects gone to trial in a 25-year career.”

His service, awards and affiliations include being an instructor with the FBI, a 911 board member in Wood County, School Safe Protocols lead member, BEARS Against Drugs, the youth safety program Read to Children, community policing and he ran carrying the torch for the West Virginia Special Olympics.

He has written for the American Association of State Troopers Magazine and was Trooper

of the Year in Harrison County, received the United States Department of Justice Sherlock Holmes Investigator Award of the Year and has received awards from the U.S. attorney general, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Department of Justice and an award for bravery and courage in the line of duty.

Brown also was the lead safety liaison for then-Gov. Joe Manchin and developed the safety protocols for when he made visits.

Brown began his career at age 22 on April 2, 1990.

He was influenced by his family’s military service.

His father served as a K9 Corps Officer in the Air Force Strategic Air Command, responsible for guarding the Starfighter of Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier. Brown’s great uncle was a tank commander in World War II under Gen. George Patton. His uncle served in Vietnam and retired as a master sergeant.

Brown graduated with honors from the West Virginia State Police Academy where he was the top 5%, graduated summa cum laude from Marshall University, graduated from the Northwestern University Traffic Institute for Supervision of Police Personnel in 1998 and took the FBI’s Violent Crimes Scene Management courses in 1995.

He graduated from the FBI Instructor Development course and was a Radio Detection and Ranging instructor for many years with the cadets of the State Police Academy and was a department field training officer for new graduates.

His first assignment was in Bridgeport where for five years he had the highest number of DUI arrests, criminal cases and arrests.

In Harrison County, Brown helped solve a case involving a Bridgeport resident who kidnapped a teenage girl in Statesville, N.C., in 1992. Brown stopped the suspect a year prior to the kidnapping on an unrelated traffic violation and remembered that the following year when the suspect disappeared and was reported missing by his wife.