Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
Serving all of Eastern Laramie County since 1908
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During the Sheriff's Office's Annual Awards Ceremony, Shane Blackmon, a local FedEx driver was awarded the Civilian Lifesaving Award. On August 20th, 2024, while delivering packages on his route, Shane Blackmon noticed a passenger car overturned on railroad tracks in the 600 block of I-80 Service Road and a female setting by the car. Shane exited his vehicle and ran to check on her. The female told Shane she had crashed her vehicle onto the tracks to try to kill herself. Shane called 911. When...
Sheriff Kozak led a contingent of Wyoming Drug Recognition Experts to the International Association of Chiefs of Police-Impaired Driving and Traffic Safety Conference in Washington DC, August 16-18, 2024. Sheriff Kozak was joined by Lt. Storch and Sgt. Johnson of the Laramie County Sheriff's Office, Lt. Frakes of the Rawlins Police Department, and Trooper Duncan of the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Rock Springs. At this conference, Sheriff Kozak participated as a subject matter expert on a panel...
Sheriff Kozak and his new command staff took office on January 3,2023. They began to reorganize the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office by having the employees focus on three overall goals: 1. Invest in the employees by implementing professional leadership to focus on employee development, retention, and recruiting. 2. Reconnect with residents and businesses to fight crime. 3. Restructure jail operations to focus on drug addiction, mental health, and other programs to lower recidivism and crime. These three overall goals led the agency and its e...
The Laramie County Sheriff's Office held our first annual Holiday Dinner and Awards Ceremony on December 5th. We started our awards ceremony by recognizing those individuals who took actions in the line of duty that resulted in saving someone's life. These individuals received the Life Saving Award. Deputy Herlihey received two Life Saving Awards. One for her response to an overdose call on June 17th and her second award for an overdose on June 18th. Herlihey administered Narcan in both...
Sheriff Brian Kozak and the staff of the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office conducted a facility wide shakedown of the Laramie County Detention Center on October 11th, 2023. Our deputies worked together with law enforcement from the Platte County Sheriff’s Office, Wyoming Highway Patrol and Wyoming Department of Corrections to search for contraband within the jail. This was the first time a full shakedown of the entire facility had been completed. Each inspection team was assigned two K-9s certified in narcotic detection. The K-9s and their han...
LARAMIE COUNTY SHERIFFS: The Laramie County Sheriffs Department will be at two locations on Saturday, April zs", 2018 from 1 0:00AM through 2:00PM to take back any unwanted, unused, prescription, or over the counter drugs. The Sheriffs Department will join other local law enforcement agencies in continuing this successful program for county residents. The two locations are the Safeway Grocery Store and Pharmacy at 700 South Greeley Highway, and Laramie County Fire District #2 at 5800 North College. The Laramie County Sheriffs Department has...
The Laramie County Sheriff’s Department has received reports from several individuals saying that they received calls either promising to show up and present awards, or that they had received a real looking check in the mail that looks authentic. However, both scams require people to submit money back to the originator using Publisher’s Clearing Houses name before receiving a prize. Publisher’s Clearing House does not require any monies for receiving a prize. One states that the individual is winning an unclaimed 1.5 million dollar prize. Inclu...