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Law Enforcement Officers from Liberty County meet outside of the courthouse Tuesday after a bomb threat was called into the County Judges Office. ATF was called out to conduct the investigation of the building before giving the all clear. The Vindicator |
On the heels of a long Memorial Day Weekend, the Liberty County Courthouse was back to business as usual until a call came into the office of County Judge Jay Knight around 9:45 am, claiming that there was a bomb in the courthouse scheduled to go off at approximately 10 am.
Knight did not say the call was directed at him or his office specifically, only that all calls that go unanswered in other departments roll to his office automatically.
Liberty County Sheriff Bobby Rader congratulated and spoke to the fifth graduating class of Correctional Officers that Training Division Supervisor, Cpl. Ann Marie Mitchell has put through an informational crammed class over a required three week training academy class. These new Correctional Officers will assume their positions within the confines of the Liberty County Jail shortly with two of the graduates being veteran Correctional Officers with State Correctional facilities.
A few of the many subjects taught in the Academy class are CPR and First Aid, Mental Health Response, Ethics in Law Enforcement and Stress Management for Correctional Officers to name only a few. All Correctional Officers have the opportunity to advance from a Basic C.O. Certification up to a Master Jail Certification through further training and testing by way of the Texas Commission On Law Enforcement (TCOLE).
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“What you are seeing today, is the product of about six years of talking and planning,” said Liberty County Judge J. Harrison Knight. For the next eighteen months anyone travelling on HWY 146 from Hardin to Liberty or vice versa will see progress in the making. According to Judge Knight, in “around twenty-four months at the most people will be moving,” into the new building. Judge Knight began by saying that years ago he, Commissioner Greg Arthur and Commissioner Leon Wilson began strategy for this project. All three have law enforcement backgrounds. Judge Knight worked for TDJC and part of his job descriptions was building prisons, Commissioner Arthur served first as Sergeant for DPS and then Liberty County Sheriff, and Commissioner Wilson was an area peace officer. The new 52-acre law enforcement complex will house offices for Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, Liberty County Commissioner Precinct 2, and Liberty County Precinct 3 Justice of