On May 19, the Appling County Sheriff’s Office provided a security detail for the 2017 Appling County High School Graduation Ceremony.  Pastor Karl Sexton, of Sand Hill Creek Free Will Baptist Church, was the Chaplin for the week.  Sheriff Melton was the featured speaker for the May 22 Flag Retirement Ceremony performed by Boy Scout Troop 472.  Troop 472 is chartered to the First United Methodist Church in Baxley.   ACSO now provides a Safe Transaction Zone which is under security camera at all times, for Child Custody Exchange, Internet Purchases and Craigslist/Ebay Purchases, etc. The second meeting of the Appling County Search and Rescue Team was held May 23.  Volunteer Michael Flory is the Coordinator for this project. When completed, Appling County Search and Rescue Team will provide both land and water services.   If you would like to be a part of this team, please contact the Sheriff’s Office.
For the seven-day period of May 19, 2017 through May 25, 2017, the Appling County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) provided the following services:
Deputies/Investigators, wrote 38 citations, made 24 arrests which included 10 drug arrests, issued 42 warnings, served 53 criminal and 15 civil papers for various courts, completed 24 incident reports, and provided security for three (3) Criminal Jury Trial for the week that ended with two (2) verdicts, one guilty and one not guilty, and one (1) plea.   There were six (6) vehicle crashes worked by deputies, with assists from the Georgia State Patrol. Deputies patrolled 6,968 miles for the period. The Sheriff’s Office considered it an honor to provide six (6) funeral escorts throughout the week.  Investigators with the Sheriff’s Office initiated nine (9) new criminal investigations and completed/closed three (3) current cases.
The Appling County Jail provided protection for our citizens by safely housing an average of 83 inmates during the current period.  Jailers completed 36 new inmate intakes and processed 33 inmate releases, which includes inmates from other counties that request our assistance in housing their inmates.  The medical unit provided 100 medical checks for the week and food service served 1,754 meals.  We continue to provide one outside detail that maintains the grounds of most county facilities.
Our 911 Emergency Call Center Dispatchers received and dispatched 731 calls for service, 205 of which were emergency calls directly to 911.  These numbers do not include routine communications between dispatch and units nor does it include the normal calls for training and drills.