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CARTHAGE, Texas - Panola County Sheriff Kevin Lake is retiring in May, and his third in command, Capt. Sarah Fields, was appointed by the Commissioner’s Court Monday to take over as sheriff after his retirement. Lake has spent 29 years in Panola County law enforcement, starting as a jailer at age 19. He’s been sheriff for the past nine years. He said his initial plan had been to retire sometime last year, but after the loss of Chris Dickerson he decided to stay on for another year. “It wasn’t fair to them, myself or the county to leave with that dark cloud over the department,” he said. “So I’ve done that, and in deciding on retirement, I kinda wanted to do it last year because I knew the election was coming up, and I know it’s a little maybe unfair to the court to have gone through the election and just be reelected and then put you folks in the position to appoint somebody, but due to the situation with losing Chris I had no choice but to d

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