Gardner named director of security for NASCAR (Nascar)

Official Release September 21, 2006 12:26 PM EDT (16:26 GMT) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR has named Gary L. Gardner, a veteran supervisory special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as its new director of security. Gardner will oversee all aspects of NASCAR's corporate and event security. Gardner, 58, retired from the FBI in 1999 after 32 years of service. Near the end of his FBI career, Gardner joined the bureau's Criminal Justice Information Services division. During that time, he ...