Six degrees of separation? Try one. Two, tops.
Seven rooms at 401 Walton Way formerly belonging to the court system are now full – full – of flat screen TVs and computers and game systems and lawn mowers and everything else you can imagine.
On a walk around after Sheriff Strength’s press conference, reporters were taken down the dark back stairwell to look at the rooms of items recovered by the operation, and more than a few wondered aloud if any of it could be theirs.
The rooms represent more than half a million dollars of stolen property, but the frightening thing about it is, the stuff wasn’t taken by some seasoned, coordinated organization. It was taken by dozens and dozens and dozens of freelance criminals and opportunists. There was no kingpin. There was no hierarchy to dismantle.
If one thing was clear, though, it’s that Scott Pebbles is the chosen one. That doesn’t necessarily mean now – the operation prevented Strength from announcing whether or not he is going to run (he says he’s made his mind up and will let everyone know mid-March – but it hardly takes a visionary to see that someday, Pebbles will be Sheriff.
Peebles was at Strength’s side on a stage that held 18 other law enforcement representatives, a literal right hand man. And Strength did his best to single him out, telling the assembled press that Operation Smoke Screen was his baby. Though Strength did most of the on-camera work because it’s the sheriff the cameras want to film – the Sheriff and all those guns – Peebles acted as unofficial host, efficiently and effectively answering questions, guiding reporters and offering his own version of the charm needed to rise to the upper levels of law enforcement.
Being personally responsible for giving all those people back there stuff – that won’t hurt, either.You Might Also Like:
Operation Smoke Screen Clears the Air
Odds are that we’re going to be talking about Operation Smoke Screen the way we now talk about Augusta Ink, the undercover sting that garnered nationwide attention for the way deputies and agents used a Tobacco Road tattoo parlor to close the noose on some of Augusta’s most hardened gang members. Though not as dramatic as the undercover sting, cracking down on the city’s runaway burglary problem affects even more of the public, because burglary is a crime that reaches out and touches that much more of the community.
Six degrees of separation? Try one. Two, tops.
Seven rooms at 401 Walton Way formerly belonging to the court system are now full – full – of flat screen TVs and computers and game systems and lawn mowers and everything else you can imagine.
On a walk around after Sheriff Strength’s press conference, reporters were taken down the dark back stairwell to look at the rooms of items recovered by the operation, and more than a few wondered aloud if any of it could be theirs.
The rooms represent more than half a million dollars of stolen property, but the frightening thing about it is, the stuff wasn’t taken by some seasoned, coordinated organization. It was taken by dozens and dozens and dozens of freelance criminals and opportunists. There was no kingpin. There was no hierarchy to dismantle.
If one thing was clear, though, it’s that Scott Pebbles is the chosen one. That doesn’t necessarily mean now – the operation prevented Strength from announcing whether or not he is going to run (he says he’s made his mind up and will let everyone know mid-March – but it hardly takes a visionary to see that someday, Pebbles will be Sheriff.
Peebles was at Strength’s side on a stage that held 18 other law enforcement representatives, a literal right hand man. And Strength did his best to single him out, telling the assembled press that Operation Smoke Screen was his baby. Though Strength did most of the on-camera work because it’s the sheriff the cameras want to film – the Sheriff and all those guns – Peebles acted as unofficial host, efficiently and effectively answering questions, guiding reporters and offering his own version of the charm needed to rise to the upper levels of law enforcement.
Being personally responsible for giving all those people back there stuff – that won’t hurt, either.You Might Also Like:
Six degrees of separation? Try one. Two, tops.
Seven rooms at 401 Walton Way formerly belonging to the court system are now full – full – of flat screen TVs and computers and game systems and lawn mowers and everything else you can imagine.
On a walk around after Sheriff Strength’s press conference, reporters were taken down the dark back stairwell to look at the rooms of items recovered by the operation, and more than a few wondered aloud if any of it could be theirs.
The rooms represent more than half a million dollars of stolen property, but the frightening thing about it is, the stuff wasn’t taken by some seasoned, coordinated organization. It was taken by dozens and dozens and dozens of freelance criminals and opportunists. There was no kingpin. There was no hierarchy to dismantle.
If one thing was clear, though, it’s that Scott Pebbles is the chosen one. That doesn’t necessarily mean now – the operation prevented Strength from announcing whether or not he is going to run (he says he’s made his mind up and will let everyone know mid-March – but it hardly takes a visionary to see that someday, Pebbles will be Sheriff.
Peebles was at Strength’s side on a stage that held 18 other law enforcement representatives, a literal right hand man. And Strength did his best to single him out, telling the assembled press that Operation Smoke Screen was his baby. Though Strength did most of the on-camera work because it’s the sheriff the cameras want to film – the Sheriff and all those guns – Peebles acted as unofficial host, efficiently and effectively answering questions, guiding reporters and offering his own version of the charm needed to rise to the upper levels of law enforcement.
Being personally responsible for giving all those people back there stuff – that won’t hurt, either.You Might Also Like:
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