July 11, 2014 Editor s Note: The Sheriff s Office Weekly Rap-Up comes out on Friday afternoon If you have a submission, please send it to me and I will be happy to include it. Send it to beckyherrin@keysso.net, or in the courier to Deputy Becky Herrin, Community Relations Division, Headquarters building on Stock Island. This publication can be viewed on line at www.keysso.net/employees/weekly_rap_up Communications Officers Ben Elmore and Ben Fox volunteered for and ran in the Crime Stoppers / Rotary 5K run/walk on July 4th in Key West. Ben Elmore is attending a law enforcement academy on a scholarship funded by this yearly event. Sheriff Ramsay gave certificates to the two managers of Sunbelt Rentals recently for being great community partners. Duane Francis (pictured above) and Mike Werner are quick to volunteer services and equipment when we need them for our various community activities and it is much appreciated. School supplies for needy families The Sheriff s Office, the Department of Juvenile Justice and other local organizations involved in working with youth and their families will be collecting school supplies over the next few weeks for kids in their programs. Youth in our Teen Court, Civil Citation and IDDS programs will be included in this effort. There will be donation boxes placed in Sheriff s substations county-wide by Monday. When you are out shopping, pick up a few supplies for those who can t afford to buy their own. The deadline for donations is August 4th. Thanks in advance for your useful donations! Sheriff s Office traffic enforcement deputies helped out at an active shooter drill this week end at Naval Air Station Boca Chica.
Explorers attend State Delegates Conference Sheriff s Office Explorers and their advisors traveled to Osceola County in June to compete at the state level against many other explorer programs. Competitions included firearms, active shooter, physical agility, traffic stops, crisis intervention, dealing with domestic calls and crime scene investigation. Monroe County took first place in the active shooter competition, second place in physical agility and firearms in the.38 caliber category. They did very well in a number of other areas, including drill team and other firearms categories. Congratulations to Explorer Thomas Mirabella who was voted in as chaplain for the state explorer board. Advisor Deputy Will Schlegelmilch was also voted range master at the state level for his third consecutive term. Advisor Deputy Nancy Torrijos and the first place Active Shooter explorer team with heir trophy. MCSO drill team did well in competition with other counties in Florida. Competitions included felony traffic stop scenarios. Explorer Thomas Mirabella talks to a suicidal subject during Crisis Intervention training. Explorers during domestic violence scenario training. Weekly Rap Up - Page 2 Advisor Deputy Will Schlegelmilch gives safety instructions at the range prior to firearms competition.
Sgt. Juan Morales and a team of inmates work on spiffing up the outside of the Marathon jail recently. Sheriff s Office boats were on the water county-wide over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Here is one of our boats in the Lower Keys stopping to check a vessel on the water. Birthday Name Job Title The Communications Division wants to thank Sgt. Marc Maison who has been helping out while on light duty. 07-12 Woodson Elaine Victim Advocate 07-13 Carey David Lieutenant Deputy Sheriff 07-13 Rahming Roxanne Civil Clerk 07-14 Huff Jon Deputy Sheriff 07-14 Simmons Janessa Detention Records Assistant 07-14 Walter Phyllis Training Coordinator 07-15 Moore Donna Executive Director-Human Resources 07-17 Anderson Anthony Deputy Sheriff 07-17 Jodlowski Raymond Deputy Sheriff 07-17 Madiedo Franklin Deputy Sheriff 07-17 Pena Lorraine Accountant Weekly Rap Up - Page 3
K-9 team Deputy Danielle Malone and Tracer made an appearance at the Florida Sheriff s Association Summer Camp going on this week at Gerald Adams Elementary School on Stock Island. They showed the kids how Tracer finds drugs and the kids got to meet Tracer up close. Dive Team members and boat handler Spencer Curry spent time Thursday cleaning trash from the Boca Chica bay bottom. They picked up three garbage cans full of bottles and cans, along with a lower unit from a boat, car tire and a foam mattress. This will be an ongoing effort as there is considerably more to clean up in that area. This terrific team from the Sheriff s Office and Armor Correctional Services volunteered at the Lower Keys Hospice Fourth of July Barbecue. Weekly Rap Up - Page 4
The Sheriff s Office was out cleaning up after all the Fourth of July celebrations county-wide last weekend. Top left, some of the trash picked up from Indian Key fill in Islamorada by Lt. Patrick Major and a team of inmates; bottom left, Deputies Caridad Bellon and Shaun Lones from Sgt. Mike DiGiovanni s squad pick up discarded and sometimes still live fireworks from the bike path at the 80 mile marker of the highway. In the two right hand photos, inmates from the Marathon jail pick up trash on Sombrero Beach after the fourth. Deputy Lazaro Valdes, on Sgt. Linda Mixon s squad in the Lower Keys, spends time each week working with Monroe County Public Works to clean up various areas of Stock Island. Here, he helped them with areas at 10th Avenue and on 5th Avenue. Weekly Rap Up - Page 5
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COMMUNITY CLEANUP DAY BEHIND KEY HAVEN SHELL FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2014 at 9AM ORGANIZED BY: DEP. FLECK Commitment to Community Weekly Rap Up - Page 7 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!