In mid-June of this year, Tom Hammonds of Grays River called me and offered to donate an AKC lab for the purpose of a narcotics K-9 detection unit. I explained to Mr. Hammonds that the budget was set a year in advance and that I wasn’t sure I c...

I would like to take a moment and again remember the four fallen Lakewood Police Officers whom were murdered senselessly on November 29, 2009 while protecting and serving their community. On December 8, several sheriff office personnel and several Ca...

In 2007, I started writing a monthly column in an attempt to keep you, our citizens, in touch with various avenues of information relating to the sheriff’s office. It was pretty well received, but within the last several years, the budget for our o...