Sheriff: Pot Leads 2011 Drug Offenses, then Meth
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Daniel Riordan-driordan@timesuniononline.com
The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department released its 2011 year-end statistics to the Kosciusko County Commissioners Tuesday morning.
In total, the sheriff’s department received 27,479 calls for service.
KCSD served 1,527 warrants in 2011, and 3,625 people were booked into Kosciusko County Jail.
The Drug Task Force conducted 228 investigations while the Fatal Alcohol Crash Team took part in 26 investigations.
The Drug Task Force collected more than 100 grams of meth in 2011, 2 pounds of cocaine and nearly 20 pounds of marijuana.
Two cars were seized from drug investigations as were 11 guns.
Of those 26 crash investigations, 11 were fatalities. Of those 11 fatalities, seven involved alcohol or drugs.
The SWAT team was called out four times and the dive team was called out seven times.
Lake patrol logged 1,005 hours and the work release program averaged 57 inmates for 2011.
Overall, agencies in the county received 443 less calls in 2011 than they did in 2010.
Mentone Police Department saw the biggest drop at 19.2 percent (140 less calls) in 2011 as compared to 2010.
North Webster and Pierceton police departments saw respective drops of 15.6 and 13 percent.
Warsaw Police Department saw 444 more calls, or a 2 percent increase.
Winona Lake Police Department saw a 6.7 percent decrease, or 212 less calls.
There were 79,496 calls for service in Kosciusko County in 2011. That is 243 less than in 2010.
In terms of the county jail, 578 people were arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated.
The most arrests came in failure to appear/comply with 612.
There were 504 drug arrests in 2011. Marijuana was the top drug offense at 253, followed by meth with 193.
The jail’s daily population was 220 for 2011.
