Bruce Colton, the State Attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, is not unfamiliar with investigations related to high-profile sex crimes.

Colton, who was tapped by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday to oversee the investigative probe scrutinizing Jeffrey Epstein’s plea deal with prosecutors and work release by law enforcement, has been working with his office on prosecuting defendants swept up in the same statewide sex trafficking investigation as New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.