December 14, 2023

Sheriff’s Report

 

A deputy was dispatched to check a possible disabled 1993 Freightliner semi in a field near the intersection of Johnson Road and Rapp Dean Road at 3:53 a.m. Nov. 28. The driver was found to be unresponsive and units from the Northwestern Fire District responded and pronounced the driver deceased. The Union County Coroner’s Office was called to the scene.

Deputies and units from the Northern Union County Fire and EMS District responded to a property in the 25000 block of Neel for a deceased hunter found in a tree line at 10:08 a.m. Nov. 28. The Union County Coroner’s Office was called to the scene.

Deputies were sent to a residence in the 9700 block of Wasserbeck Road to investigate a domestic dispute between an ex-boyfri…

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