A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency division chief who began his career as a cop in Baltimore will be the newest deputy commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department.

Gary Tuggle, a DEA agent of 26 years who stepped down just last month as head of the agency’s Philadelphia Division, will be the deputy commissioner of the BPD’s Strategic Investigations and Support Services Bureau, according to a BPD release. He and Andre Bonaparte will both serve as deputies to newly appointed Commissioner Darryl De Sousa in his reorganized department. Bonaparte will oversee the department’s Operations Bureau.

Tuggle, a Baltimore native, first worked as a Baltimore police officer before taking a job as a DEA agent here 1992, according to his agency bio. He went on to work in Miami, Barbados, Chicago, Washington D.C., Trinidad and areas of the Caribbean and Latin America, spending years building “complex international drug investigations.”

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