A drunk driving case against former Cherokee County Metro Narcotics Unit Agent Kevin Wilson will be tried in York County.

Sixteenth Circuit Assistant Solicitor Ashley Anderson confirmed Tuesday she will prosecute the case in York County Magistrate Court. Anderson said a trial date has not yet been scheduled.

Wilson was a Gaffney police officer assigned to the countywide narcotics unit. He was traveling east on Hamrick Street at 11:23 p.m. April 8 when his vehicle went off the right side of the road, struck a bridge abutment and traveled down a gully before overturning in a creek. He was reportedly working as a security officer at the nearby Broad River Electric Co-Op building.

Wilson was not wearing a seat belt, according to the S.C. Department of Public Safety. His undercover Ford F-150 pickup truck was totaled.

He resigned after being charged with driving under the influence.

The Seventh Circuit Solicitor's Office asked the neighboring solicitor's office to handle the prosecution of the case because it could pose a potential conflict of interest.

Wilson became a reserve police officer for the Gaffney department in 1999 and after three months was hired as a full-time police officer. He worked with the narcotics unit for three years.

He was named law enforcement officer of the year in August 2005 by the Seventh Circuit Solicitor's Office for disarming a murder and kidnapping suspect while allowing a hostage to escape.

Wilson assisted the York County Sheriff's Office when the pursuit of the murder suspect entered Cherokee County on Victory Trail Road (Hwy. 329). Wilson used his pickup truck to force the suspect's vehicle off the road at Wilkinsville Hwy. The hostage escaped from the driver's seat as Wilson, who was still in the driver's seat of his unmarked vehicle, began struggling with the suspect for the weapon through the vehicles' windows. The murder suspect died during the struggle when he shot himself in the chest with a high-powered rifle.