Citizen Portal
Sign In

Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!

Get email alerts on the Public Safety Staffing topic

No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

Sheriff’s Office shifts personnel, hires two deputies and reports crash trends

Somerset County Commission · December 3, 2025
AI-Generated Content: All content on this page was generated by AI to highlight key points from the meeting. For complete details and context, we recommend watching the full video. so we can fix them.

Summary

Sheriff Lancaster reassigned a patrol deputy to the detective division and the Commission approved hiring Nathan Jalbert II and Wyatt Brown; deputies reported 57% (72) of recent crashes were deer-related and one cruiser totaled.

Sheriff Lancaster told commissioners that he had moved Patrol Deputy Slate to the Detective Division on a temporary assignment and that the department currently had 18 open cases. He reported that, of crashes deputies responded to over the past five weeks, 57% (72) were deer-related and included one totaled cruiser.

Separately, commissioners approved Resolution 25-223 to hire Nathan Jalbert II and Wyatt Brown as Patrol Deputies for the Somerset Sheriff’s Office on a 5-0 vote. The meeting also included the recommissioning of Lt. Michael Knight (Resolution 25-206, approved 5-0).