Undersheriff Brian News Today

VIRGINIA BEACH — Democrats in Virginia Beach are “demanding” Sheriff Ken Stolle set a retirement date now so that a special election to replace him can be held in November, instead of next year. On Aug. 1, Stolle announced that he plans to retire later this year but didn’t provide a date. His elected term is set to expire at the end of 2025. The Republican sheriff said Chief Deputy Rocky ...

The sheriff's office says deputies and medical staff at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center save the lives of two inmates after a suspected opioid overdose on Sunday.

WATERTOWN — Pending legal action to force Jefferson County to treat inmates at its county jail for opioid use disorder will likely become a class-action lawsuit.

WATERTOWN — After eight years away from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, former Deputy Sheriff Peter R. Barnett has announced that he will run for Jefferson County Sheriff, and being

WATERTOWN — Jefferson County legislators on Tuesday accepted an altered version of a resolution that caused some controversy last year. At Tuesday’s meeting of the county Finance and Rules committee, legislators voted to accept the fiscal year 2019 Operation Stonegarden grant. The Stonegarden program gives federal grant money to police departments, via county sheriff’s offices, along the U.S.’s national borders, to enhance their abilities and ultimately strengthen border sec...

WATERTOWN — The New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project filed suit against Jefferson County on Monday for its denial of prescribed medication to people with opioid use disorder in the county jail. The civil liberties unions, on behalf of a Watertown man identified as P.G. in court documents, filed a federal lawsuit Monday in United States District Court, Northern District of New York, against Jefferson County, county Sheriff Coll...