24-04-2025
Senator tours local sheriff's office
WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) — Senator Jon Husted was in Trumbull County Wednesday, taking a tour of the Sheriff's Office and speaking with its newly elected leadership.
Senator Husted also went on a ride-along with a sheriff's deputy, after talking with Sheriff Mike Wilson to learn about the issues law enforcement face.
'We also talked about the challenges in the community, the challenges with addiction and mental health issues and how we can all work together on those things,' Husted said.
'We want to be able to provide addiction treatment. We want to be able to provide treatment for detoxing and we also want to be able to provide counseling and clergy, which we are all bringing back to our jail,' Sheriff Wilson said.
Husted is a proponent of the HALT Fentanyl Act, which gives Customs and Border Control the authority to seize illegal drugs crossing the border and gives longer sentences for those caught with fentanyl-related substances.
'There are a lot of drugs that come across borders. There are a lot of drugs that are manufactured in local communities but law enforcement needs the tools to be able to crack down on it, to hold people in jails,' Husted said.
Wilson says he hopes a visit showed the senator the need for more funding for the Trumbull County Sheriff's Department.
'We need funding, you know. Funding makes a big difference. If we had more officers on the street, more officers in our jail, we'd be able to do a lot more in fighting crime, especially the fentanyl epidemic that we experience,' Wilson said.
Currently, the Sheriff's Office has 140 deputies and corrections officers on staff. Wilson would like to see more funding to hire more deputies.
'Once we get the funding back and we're ready to go, we're ready to hire and get people trained so they can go out and fight the war on crime that we have here in Trumbull County,' said 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
