Stacey Cheeks began his law enforcement career in 2004 with the Fulton County Police Department, where he worked in crime suppression, narcotics, and the Criminal Investigations Division. Cheeks served as a member of the SWAT team. While assigned to narcotics, he was detached to the GBI West Metro Regional Drug Enforcement Office. Cheeks joined the GBI as a special agent in 2015 and was assigned to the Atlanta Regional Office. Cheeks worked in the Atlanta Regional Office for three years before being detached to the FBI Atlanta Airport Squad. While at the FBI, he worked on narcotics interdiction and insider threats cases at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. In 2023, Cheeks was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Atlanta Regional Office.