Congratulations to Deputy James Tredore for successfully completing the Field Officer Training Certification.

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 11am, the RCSO hosted a press conference at The Foundation Club, 1006 Azalea Drive regarding the below K-9.

In 2012, K-9 Max was donated to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office as a fully trained explosive K-9 through a government program and K-2 Solutions, Inc.  As it became time to retire K-9 Max, his history was researched in an effort to possibly return him to his original handler.  It was learned that Marine Corporal Paul Robbins joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 2009 as a heavy machine gunner.  The unit he was with was getting deployed in 2011 to Afghanistan. While training at Camp Pendleton, CA before heading over, he was told he was going to be crossed trained as a dog handler for an IED Detection Dog.  He flew out to Southern Pines, NC and trained with K2 solutions for 5 weeks and was teamed up with K-9 Max.  Paul has described K-9 Max as an amazing worker and they worked well together.  Paul felt that no matter what happened, K-9 Max would not let anything happen to him or the guys he was deploying with.  They then flew back to Camp Pendleton where they continued to train with one another until deployment.  They were deployed to Southern Helmand Afghanistan where Paul and Max worked countless hours with MAP 3 walking around the desert making sure it was secure for other platoons to work in.  They were there until December 23, 2011, which is when they got on a plane to travel home.  They spent a couple days in travel together and once back in the states Paul had a couple minutes with Max to say goodbye, then he had to hand K-9 Max over to the trainers of K2 and get on a bus to head back to base.  Paul didn't think he was ever going to see K-9 Max again.  In 2012, Sergeant John Gray of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit traveled to K-2 Solutions, Inc. and Max was donated to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office and assigned as an Explosive Ordinance Disposal K-9 to Sergeant John Gray.  Max has worked well for the RCSO over the past two years, had conducted numerous searches for weapons and cleared buildings from bomb threats.  Additionally, Max has been assigned to work the past two Masters Tournaments at the Augusta National helping to ensure the safety of patrons from all over the world.

As it became time for K-9 Max to retire, the aforementioned information was researched and Marine Corporal Robbins was contacted to see if he would like to have K-9 Max returned to him, which he was ecstatic.  Marine Corporal Robbins is now a Police Officer in the Patrol Division of the Lowell Massachusetts Police Department.  The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office through the use of donated funds has arranged to fly Officer Robbins to Augusta to pick up K-9 Max as well as the flight home.  K-9 Max was officially handed over to Officer Robbins at 11am on 2/10/15 at the Foundation Club by Lieutenant Lewis Blanchard and Sergeant John Gray on behalf of Sheriff Roundtree and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office 

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office would like to thank Sgt. Greg Meagher for 30 years of distinguished service to this agency and the citizens of Richmond County.

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office would like to thank Cpl. Russell Schaffer for 15 years of distinguished service to this agency and the citizens of Richmond County.

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office would like to thank Deputy Walter Lamkin Jr. for 15 years of distinguished service to this agency and the citizens of Richmond County.

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office would like to thank Cpl. Charles Berry for 15 years of distinguished service to this agency and the citizens of Richmond County.

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office would like to thank Deputy Susie Gilmore for 10 years of distinguished service to this agency and the citizens of Richmond County.

Congratulations to Deputy Daryl T. Oehrlein on his promotion to the rank of Investigator.

Congratulations to Deputy Lucas F. Grant on his promotion to the rank of Investigator.

On Thursday, 010815, Deputy Craig Usry received a call to the Kroc Center in reference to a Theft. Upon Deputy Usry’s arrival he met with the complainant who stated her purse had been taken from her pocket book while she was inside the Kroc Center. Deputy Usry viewed the video from the Kroc Center and determined that a B/F (Suspect) had taken the purse and walked out of the Kroc Center west bound on Broad St. Deputy Usry went to the Family Dollar on the 1900 block of Broad St. and asked if the B/F (Suspect) had been into the store. The manager stated that the B/F (Suspect) had made a purchase with a charge card. Deputy Usry obtained the information from the charge. The information was the complainant’s information and charge card from the Kroc Center Theft. Deputy Usry did a case report for the Financial Transaction Card Fraud in addition to the initial Theft. Deputy Usry then started canvassing the area. Deputy Usry showed a picture of the suspect to several citizens in the area. Deputy Usry received information that the suspect lived at 1931 Ellis St. On 011315 Deputy Usry, along with Deputies Pete Stewart and Travis Clark went to 1931 Ellis St and located the suspect (Bridgette R. Busch). Inv. Jimmy Wren had placed a BOLO on the RCSO email for the suspect. Deputy Usry transported the suspect to CID and turned her over to Inv. Wren.  Deputy Usry showed tremendous initiative by taking the investigation to the next level by identifying and apprehending the suspect even before CID had identified her. Deputy Usry did an excellent job and deserves recognition for a job well done.