Welcome CO’s Audinwood, Blencowe and Deputy Warriner
From Sheriff James Allard,
It’s a beautiful day in Steuben County. The heat wave has finally broken for a few days and sunny and 70s is a welcomed weather event. Today, August 1st, was my father’s birthday, so to any Coopers BOCES students or instructors from 1967 to 1987, Mr. Allard would have turned 93 today! It is easy for nostalgia to creep into my thoughts during summer as I smell fresh cut hay in the sun, see farmers working until nightfall and hear children outside playing after sunset. I feel incredibly grateful to be able to live and work in Steuben County and fully enjoy all that it has to offer, from farm fresh vegetables to swimming in the lake to hiking our parks and forests. The incredible sunsets over the past week have been nothing short of breathtaking. Although summer is already about half over, with back-to-school sales beginning, vacation season remains in full swing, and the Steuben County Fair will start in two weeks.
In July, we swore in two new Correction Officers and one new Deputy, Officers G. Audinwood and I. Blencowe, along with Deputy Noah Warriner, have now joined our family. Deputy Warriner is the son of Deputy and Mrs. Alan Warriner, who are extremely proud of their son’s accomplishments! The Inmate Garden gained new additions also in July; plum trees, blackberry and raspberry bushes. Captain Mills, Lieutenants Wetherby and Thompson, Sergeants Ames and Towner, attended the DCJS Principled Policing training. On Tuesday July 22nd, Captain Mills cooked a hot dog lunch for Jail staff. Sergeant Sorge and Deputy Butler taught another NYS Boater’s Safety Course, continuing our monthly presentation of this course. Deputies Bush and Bendzlowicz provided weekly water safety trainings to the campers at the Sheriff’s Camp on Keuka Lake as part of our navigational patrol. Deputy Butler taught Standardized Field Sobriety Testing to the SUNY Alfred Police Cadets and Sergeant Sciotti administered Defensive Tactics testing. Sheriff Allard attended the New York State Sheriff’s Association Summer Conference, with classes in AI, automatic drone response capabilities, liaison with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for border issues as well as a presentation from the US Customs and Border Patrol Swanson Sector. Sheriff Allard also attended training on a new DCJS resiliency program, attended the Senator Gillibrand NYS First Responder Summit and presented at the First Responder Wellness Symposium in Cortland, as well as appearing on the monthly “Frankly Speaking” interview.
July was another busy and challenging month in the Sheriff’s Office. Our investigators and deputies were tasked with a burglary investigation, a robbery investigation, ten assault investigations, a trespass investigation, two reckless endangerment investigations, two obstructing governmental administration investigations, two endangering a child investigations, one endangering an elderly person investigation, three sexual assault investigations, two stalking investigations, ten larceny investigations, six grand larceny investigations, one unlawful imprisonment investigation, one possession of a weapon investigation, two welfare fraud investigations, seven death investigations, two falsifying business records investigations, two filing a false instrument investigations, one criminal contempt investigation, two fire investigations, one unlawfully dealing with a child investigation, one bad check investigation, eight harassment investigations, seven criminal mischief investigations, four drug investigations, one obstruction of breathing investigation, one fraud investigation and one filing a false report investigation. Our Patrol Division was tasked with multiple domestic incident investigations along with mental health detainments, emergency medical aid, assisting other agencies, serving of warrants, and two intoxicated or impaired driving arrests.
All of our deputies and officers performed in an outstanding fashion, and we received multiple commendations from the public regarding their outstanding performance.
We continue to pray for our first responder colleagues and deployed military across the globe, as well as their families. We also pray for the victims of mass casualty events and state sponsored aggression.
Thank you for supporting the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office in these challenging times and stay safe!
Steuben County Sheriff Jim Allard
