Canyon County Sheriff elected to National Sheriffs’ Association’s Executive Committee
Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue is the first Idaho sheriff to serve on the executive committee in its 81-year history. Author: Joe Parris Updated: 5:56 PM MDT July 1, 2021
BOISE, Idaho Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue is now set to serve as a Vice President on the National Sheriffs’ Association’s Executive Committee. Donahue won election during the NSA’s Annual Conference and is now the first Idaho sheriff to be elected to a leadership role in the association’s 81-year history.
Donahue was elected as third Vice President, which puts him in line to become President of the National Sheriffs’ Association in 2024. Donahue, elected Canyon County sheriff in 2012 and now serving in his third term, will have the opportunity to advocate for Idaho and the western region.
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Members of local and federal law enforcement address the Idaho media Monday in Canyon County regarding the arrest of Erasmo Diaz in Mexico. Diaz has been wanted in the 2015 killing of his wife, Amparo Godinez Sanchez. | Jacob Scholl, Idaho Statesman
CALDWELL (Idaho Statesman) – After a multi-year search, authorities have arrested a former Idaho man accused of killing his wife in Canyon County in 2015 before fleeing the country.
Erasmo Diaz was arrested in Mexico on Saturday by Mexico Federal Police and members of the U.S. Marshals Service, according to a Monday morning news release from Canyon County.
BOISE — The Idaho Innocence Project at Boise State University and volunteer attorneys from Stoel Rives secured on Tuesday a certificate of innocence for Charles Fain, a man who spent
The issue of drug smuggling at the Canyon County jail turned deadly last December, leading to a renewed push from the sheriff’s office to find a solution.
Two inmates at the county jail in Caldwell have overdosed in the past four months while smuggling in drugs. One of the women survived, but the other died at a local hospital.
County jail Capt. Harold Patchett said visitors and inmates trying to sneak drugs into prisons and jails has been a problem for as long as he can remember. He’s worked in the jail for 18 years, and he said it first started with marijuana and cocaine, but now the big problems are heroin, opioid pills and fentanyl.
CANYON COUNTY â The Canyon County Sheriffâs Office is not relenting on its search for the people responsible for the Dec. 17, 2014 murder of 25-year-old Christopher Reese, who was working as a night shift clerk at a Jacksonâs Food Store in Notus, as the sheriffâs office announced in a Dec. 17 news release marking the sixth anniversary of the killing.
The sheriffâs office continues to treat the case as a high-priority case, with detectives having followed up on over a thousand tips and leads. Despite these clues, the suspects remain at large.
âMy heart continues to go out to the family and friends of Mr. Reese, and I want nothing more than to bring them the closure they so desperately need,â said Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue in the release. âThis was almost certainly a planned, meticulous attack, and not some random act of violence like many of the homicides we see in this area. Thatâs why finding these two suspects and holding th