Summit County sheriff reports 2024 activity to Green City Council

Summit County Sheriff Candy Fabry gave a year‑end report to the Green City Council on March 25, 2025, outlining policing activity in the city of Green in 2024 and summarizing specialty units and community programs the sheriff’s office provides at no extra cost to residents.

Fabry said the sheriff’s office answered or initiated 31,156 calls for service in Green during 2024, and made 3,654 traffic stops. A total of 480 people were either arrested or issued summonses in the city last year, she said. The detective bureau conducted 421 investigations in Green, and the warrants division arrested “nearly 250” felons countywide, Fabry said.

The presentation matters because the city relies on a policing contract with the Summit County Sheriff’s Office for primary law enforcement services. The sheriff’s office provides patrol staffing, school resource officers, airport policing at Akron‑Canton Airport, and a range of specialty units that the city could not staff on its own, officials said.

Fabry described the sheriff’s office deployment and specialized units that support Green: three 24/7 cruisers dedicated to Green plus three additional eight‑hour cruisers; float cars that respond countywide; five school resource officers who also patrol parks; a SWAT team; crisis negotiators; a privacy and investigation unit; a crash investigation team; a bomb squad described as the only one in the region; an armored unit; a dive/rescue team; a mobile field force; a newly established drone response team; and the county’s largest canine unit. Fabry also described multi‑jurisdictional task forces, including a drug unit and a human‑trafficking task force.

The sheriff gave counts for several outcomes: the human‑trafficking task force “rescued 112 victims and arrested 50 suspects” in the last year, Fabry said. She also said the office maintains registries for sex offenders, arsonists and violent offenders and provides community programs such as Knox Box and Senior Watch, school safety instruction, Safety City for pre‑K children and seasonal outreach events.

“We’re a part of the fabric of this community, and we wanna see it to continue to grow and prosper and thrive,” Sheriff Candy Fabry said.

Council members asked questions after the presentation. Councilmember Neubauer raised the 421 detective investigations tied to Green and asked why that figure was high compared with other jurisdictions; Fabry said many investigations are driven by reports that do not always result in charges but still require investigative work. Councilmember Bennett thanked the sheriff’s office for its response to a property matter she has experienced and described repeated positive interactions across divisions.

Fabry also addressed fentanyl and drug trafficking, saying fentanyl remains a national problem and that local drug teams work with state and federal partners. “Fentanyl is a huge problem across the entire nation,” Fabry said, adding that task forces and interdiction efforts continue but that she does not expect the issue to disappear quickly.

Fabry announced three new chiefs: Chief Larry Brown (operations and specialty units), Chief Tim Miller (jail/brigade operations) and Chief Bill Holland (administration). She encouraged recruiting for deputy positions and noted a sheriff’s office careers site: summitsheriffsjobs.com.

Council members and the mayor praised deputies and named local contacts such as Captain McCutcheon for responsiveness, and described in‑person demonstrations at community events such as FreedomFest where multiple specialty units attended.

The council did not take formal action during the presentation; the session moved on after questions and thanks to the sheriff.