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HENDERSON COUNTY — In the past two months, the Henderson County Sheriff\u2019s Department has arrested 50 people for drug related charges, many of them have led to arrests made by residents. According to our news partner KETK, recent arrests have involved lengthy investigations that have led to warrants.<\/p>\n
Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse spoke about how most of his recent arrests have initially been search warrants allowing them to enter their homes. \u201cMost of them have been through investigations where we\u2019ve gotten some information and been able to get a search warrant and go and actually search a house,\u201d Hillhouse said.<\/p>\n
Hillhouse has been the sheriff since 2016 and his main focus has been on getting drugs off the street. He has asked residents to call in credible tips to his office, local law enforcement and Crimestoppers, recently those tips have resulted in arrests.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey filter information into me and then I\u2019ll filter it over to our investigators, so it\u2019s been really successful early this year, working with the community and then taking these investigations that are leading to arrest,\u201d Hillhouse said.<\/p>\n
Hillhouse acknowledged that drugs have always been the number one problem in his county, but its not the only crime committed as a result. Hillhouse stated that many people in the jail have a drug charge and also other crimes like, theft and assault.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say, probably 80 to 85% of the people that are locked up in the Henderson County Jail have some type of substance abuse issue. They may be in jail for burglary, but they committed the burglary to try to support their substance abuse habit,\u201d Hillhouse said. As of Feb. 11, 145 people had been booked in the county jail on a drug charge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had 87 people booked into the jail over this past weekend and with those 87, as we went over, we could see that the majority of them were somehow connected to drugs,\u201d Public Information officer with the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office Larry Christian said.<\/p>\n
Christian said most of their arrests involve methamphetamines while claiming that the increased level of drug related crime comes from the boarder crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is it more prevalent in this country maybe now than it was 10 years ago, 20 years ago? A lot of it is because of the porous border that we\u2019ve had over the last several years,\u201d Christian said.<\/p>\n
Christian said meth is not the only drug that causes concern in the county but fentanyl is also a major problem in the community and his killing young people across the country.
\n\u201cDrugs were free flowing into this country. The sheriff\u2019s mentioned it many times, the fentanyl problem that we have here, fentanyl is killing our children. It\u2019s killing our teenagers, our young people at an alarming rate across the country,\u201d Christian said.<\/p>\n
Hillhouse acknowledged that fentanyl it\u2019s a problem across the state and nation including in Henderson and is growing worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just getting worse and worse, seeing more and more fentanyl is what scares me,\u201d Hillhouse said.<\/p>\n
Both sheriff\u2019s offices said they will continue to work hard to get these criminals and drugs off the streets.<\/p>\n
Hillhouse encourages people to continue to call in tips to his office. He added, \u201cif you see something, please say something.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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