To the Citizens of Humboldt County:
Where do they go? Yet another year in the history books and, as with the last two years, another successful and productive one. It was a year marked by more forward momentum toward our corporate goal of making the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office a model agency among Nevada’s more rural counties. This has been the driving force for the first and second years of my term and continues through this, the end of the third year. This was another year of progressive training for our staff, and a year of acquiring better and more up-to-date equipment. It was also a year of beginnings and endings.
Toward the first part of 2009, our agency received, at no cost to the taxpayers of Humboldt County, the first drug detection dog that this department has had in some time. “Lily”, a three-year-old yellow Labrador Retriever was gifted to our agency by the Elko Police Department. I chose veteran law enforcement officer Cory Allen to be our department’s K-9 handler and “Lily’s” new partner. Deputy Allen was sent to an extensive training course to become certified as a drug detection dog handler and then hit the streets with his new partner. Deputy Allen and “Lily” spent the remainder of the year very involved with trying to locate and seize illegal drugs from our streets. This crime fighting pair has also conducted numerous community presentations and has assisted other law enforcement agencies in the area with some of their individual drug investigations.
