KAHLO IS HONORING OUR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS
RESOURCE OFFICER BUY PERSONAL VEHICLES JASON SHONK WILER AT GOVERNMENT PRICING later, she said I looked like the guy in the show Magnum, P.I. I decided to keep it.”
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Known as “Shonk” or “Stash,” Jason Shonkwiler recently completed his first year as one of two school resource officers at Noblesville High School. His job entails being an informal counselor and educator but foremost a law enforcement officer. As a member of the Noblesville Police Department and a military veteran, he takes his assignment seriously but sincerely enjoys the interactions he has with students.
didn’t seem interesting. He decided to pursue a long-time desire to be a police officer and, in 2014, graduated from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in Plainfield.
Shonkwiler grew up in Noblesville until his family moved to Wisconsin just as he was beginning high school. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where Shonkwiler is an employee of the Noblesville City Police Department. He he played football and ran track. In 2003, he enlisted in the army and saw combat in Iraq. While he was there, his mother, Peggy, reached out to family and friends and asked them to send him letters. One such person, Deb Epperson, ended up being his future mother-in-law.
(317) 399-9069 | HELLOKAHLO.COM “I actually grew up just down the street from the Epperson family,” he says. “Deb had her third-grade class at Forest Hill Elementary write to me and in the process, “It’s fun that the kids know me and I reconnected with her daughter, Alaina. recognize me when they see me out in the Today we are married, live in Noblesville community,” Shonkwiler says. “It’s partly and have two kids. One is in middle school due to my mustache which I grew as a joke. I and one is in elementary.” take my job seriously but not myself. When I first started as a police officer, I was dealing After getting out of the army, Shonkwiler with a suicidal woman in her 80s. She told worked in a series of management jobs for me I didn’t look old enough for the job. So, companies such as Amazon and Target. I grew a mustache. When the lady saw me However, the career path ahead of him
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