Local State Trooper receives promotion

A Highway Patrol Trooper from the immediate southwest Missouri area is receiving a promotion.

Corporal Timothy A. Barrett is being promoted to the rank of sergeant and will remain in his present assignment in the criminal interdiction/canine unit at Troop D. Barrett was appointed to the Missouri State Highway Patrol in January 2007, as a member of the 86th Recruit Class.

After graduating from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy, he was assigned to Troop D, Zone 14, which serves the citizens of Barry County. In April 2010, Barrett transferred to Zone 5, Jasper County, and continued his work as a road officer. In March 2016, he was assigned to Troop D’s criminal interdiction unit as a canine officer. In April 2018, Barrett was promoted to the rank of corporal and remained in that assignment.

Sergeant Barrett was born in Joplin, Missouri.

He graduated from Carthage High School, Carthage, Missouri, in 2000. He graduated in 2002 from Missouri Southern State University, in Joplin, with an associate degree in law enforcement. Prior to his appointment with the Patrol in 2006, he was employed as a police officer with the Carthage Police Department. Sergeant Barrett is married and has three children.

Also, Corporal William J. Wood is being promoted to the rank of sergeant and designated the supervisor of Zone 9, which serves Cedar and St. Clair counties. He is a native of West Plains, Missouri.