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Chief Deputy Brad York, Sheriff Steve Levorchick and Deputy Bud Chasteen receive a $1,500 donation for the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department’s ‘Project Lifesaver” from President Mike Garber, Mark Kozlok, Ray Kroft and Terry Hartley of the Port Clinton Lions Club.
Project Lifesaver of Ottawa County, a program managed by the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department to quickly help law enforcement recover people who are confused or lost, got another big boost from the Port Clinton Lion’s Club.
The local Lions Club initiated a $1,500 Community Impact Grant from the Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF) at its recent Lions District Convention to support Ottawa County law enforcement officers trying to find people who have Alzheimer’s disease or other cognitive impairments which may cause them to wander away from home.
Feb 5, 2021
SALEM The number of cases may be down, but drugs remain a problem that did not slow up during COVID-19 in Salem.
That’s what Police Chief J.T. Panezott indicated during a recent interview regarding 2020 police department statistics.
“We saw an increase of people going through drug abuse crises. The big concern to me is the amount of methamphetamine we’re seeing,” he said.
According to Panezott, it’s not unique to Salem, but something everybody else is seeing, with a surge of methamphetamine statewide and not the homemade kind, but the pure meth from super labs in Mexico. They’re also seeing fentanyl, but the amount of methamphetamine is dwarfing all other drugs.