ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
In a response to several questions from WTCA, Marshall County Sheriff Matt Hassel responded about the outbreak of COVID-19 in the jail on Wednesday morning.
Hassel said, “Since the Emergency Declaration was issued for COVID-19 the jail has been operating under the CDC guidelines for residential treatment facilities. Basically the same as nursing homes and hospitals.” The sheriff said two weeks ago they had an inmate that was going to have a procedure done at the hospital but needed to be COVID tested before the procedure. The inmate tested negative on the rapid test, had no symptoms but tested positive in the laboratory test.
The Marshall County Commissioners questioned Sheriff’s Deputy Neal Wallace on why Sheriff Matt Hassel was not at their meeting on Monday to request a pre-pay for Oliver Ford Lincoln to replace two patrol vehicles that were totaled in two separate accidents. Wallace said he was out of town.
Wallace said one vehicle was totaled when a sheriff’s deputy was involved in a car-deer accident and the second was a crash with a UTV on Flat Lake Road.
Commissioner Kevin Overmyer asked what the amount of the pre-pay request was and Wallace did not have that information. He did have a check from the Sheriff, using the commissary funds to cover the remainder of the cost which was $11,447.