The Homicide Task Force will fill a void left when Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez announced in December that he would be disbanding the Metro Homicide Unit and deploying those detectives elsewhere within the department. Six Gary Police detectives will be assigned to the task force along with two ISP troopers. A member of the state excise police will be assigned to the task force to assist in investigations.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Department is disbanding its Metro Homicide Unit effective Jan. 16, a couple months shy of the division’s eighth anniversary.
"God Bless Ron DeSantis. Good for him. He s unwilling to allow this thing to happen in the state of Florida, and Florida is doing pretty well," said state Sen. Aaron