Chief Deputy Graduates

The Florida Criminal Justice Executive Institute announces the graduation today of Major Wallace Kitchings (Chief Deputy) from the Chief Executive Seminar at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) in Tallahassee, Fla. The graduates represent criminal justice agencies around the state who serve in a leadership role within their agency. The seminar met for one…

Phone Solicitations

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office has again been contacted by several concerned citizens about phone calls they have been receiving soliciting donations for the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and Lake City Police Department. Your state, county and local law enforcement agencies are publicly funded and will never solicit donations from the community. A fraternal law…

Man Arrested at County Fair

On Saturday, October 30, 2010, at approximately 11:15 p.m., a Lake City man was arrested at the Columbia County Fair for drug possession and resisting arrest. Columbia County Sheriffs Deputies were alerted by a vendor at the Fair that a man attempted to sell him crack cocaine. The alert vendor provided Deputies with a description…

School Custodian Arrested for Theft

On Thursday, October 28, 2010, a custodian at Ft. White High School was arrested by Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputies. Lonnie Albert Hudson was arrested following an investigation by CCSO School Resource Deputies Sgt Tim Ball and Deputy David Milligan. It was determined that Mr. Hudson had stolen two laptop computers, a welding machine and various…

Drug Evidence to be Destroyed

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office is slated to destroy nearly 400 pounds of drugs and drug paraphernalia. As part of an annual drug destruction program, representatives from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and State Attorney’s Office met at CCSO on October 29, 2010 to conduct a final inventory of the items to be destroyed. The…