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Guadalupe County unleashes new crime fighting tool Sheriff 's office Top 12 Most Wanted List now available Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- The Guadalupe County Sheriff ’s Office is again turning to social media for help in putting fugitives back behind bars. Many might have noticed the new online collage of fugitives dubbed the Guadalupe County Sheriff ’s Office Top 12 Most Wanted. The list is the sheriff ’s new way of serving out its warrants. Guadalupe County Chief Deputy Joshua Ray says while the list of mugshots has always been publicly available, circulating the fugitives via social media has now made them more publicly visible. “The sheriff ’s office is responsible for housing all of the warrants and that has to do with our dispatch 911 center and the requirements that the
DPS puts on us. We have to actually have the original warrants on house at the sheriff ’s office. We also have a warrant’s section that that is what their job is to go out and find these fugitives and execute the warrants that have been authorized by the courts. Probably what is bringing a little more attention to it is here recently, we put the Sheriff ’s 12 Most Wanted on social media, Facebook, and we had not done that previously. It’s always been on website. It’s been on our website for some time but for the first time, we put it on social media and clearly it got more of a response from the public and it’s something that we are going to continue doing. It’s something that the sheriff ’s office has been doing since
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long before I was here and it’s our job to go out and find fugitives and bring them back and we are going to continue to do that,” said Ray. Ray says the sheriff ’s office is responsible for the selection of fugitives who make the list. He says the subjects are all wanted on a variety of crimes. “We concentrate on the felony
offenses. If is not a felony offense, it is not on there and then we start off with the more violent offenses at the top, usually and it works its way downward,” said Ray. Ray says the sheriff ’s office is already appreciative to the community for its help in identifying some of the individuals listed. Crime, pg. 3