With only one other paid law enforcement officer on staff now to help him monitor a 231-square-mile area day and night, his department is stretched to its limit.
bare-bones department last month after county officials informed him they did not have enough funds to make good on a“We love our sheriff, but we just ain’t got the money,” said Roger Preece, 57, a county magistrate who took office at the beginning of this year. “If you ain’t got it, you ain’t got it.
But the latest cuts particularly rankle Kirk, a Republican who was elected on a platform of ridding the county of opioids.“I put the drug dealers on notice, but we’re handicapped,” he said. “If you’re a drug dealer and you want to transport drugs in this county, right now is when you want to do it. They know we’ve only got one police officer working.”Key county roads are rife with potholes as the road and bridges department tries to make do with rusty excavators, dump trucks and salt trucks.
Many locals blame former county officials for being slow to react to the sharp drop in tax revenue and exacerbating the problems withpoor financial decisions. In 2013, the county took out a 25-year loan to erect a massive government building that requires a monthly payment of $55,000. Instead, he handed a sheet of lined paper out the SUV window and asked her to detail what had been stolen.Probably, he admitted after he drove away, he would not have time to visit pawnshops to look for her flat-screen TV, Nikes, propane heater or generator.
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