Polk sheriff weekly report

Published 12:23pm Thursday, October 18, 2012

During the week from Oct. 10 through Oct. 16, 2012, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office answered 352 service calls.

Officers arrested one for failure to pay child support, one for providing tobacco to an inmate, one for burglary, one for fraud and made one order for arrest.

Citations included one for failure to stop for a stop sign, one infraction, 13 for speeding ad one for no operator’s license.

Officers also took six incident reports, served 15 civil papers, conducted 331 church checks, 507 business checks, 58 residential checks and patrolled 5,381 miles.

- information submitted by chief deputy Andy Greenway

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