Pocahontas Sheriff’s Office Hires First Ever Female Deputy Sheriff

Pocahontas County Sheriff Troy McCoy introduced us to the three new Deputy Sheriffs who took their oath of office on July 7^th. The three include the first ever female Pocahontas County Deputy Sheriff, Aleea Carr. The other two new deputies are Sean Sharp and Stephen Simmons.

McCoy said that these new deputies will be riding along as trainees with experienced deputies until they leave to go to the academy, which hopefully will be on August 24^th. He said he has not yet had it absolutely confirmed by the academy that the new deputies will be able to start that August academy class, but believes it is likely. If they do, they will graduate from the academy on December 11^th, and will be fully certified Pocahontas County Deputies at that time.

Sheriff McCoy also said that his department also has another newly hired deputy, Mark Walton, currently attending the academy. Walton has a projected graduation date of August 21^st, after which he will return to the county as a fully certified deputy.

McCoy’s office has been critically short of deputies the entire time he has been in office, which has limited law enforcement activities, but he said that once all these deputies are fully certified and working on the street, law enforcement initiatives can be expanded here, including more anti-drug investigations and arrests.