Sheriff Scott announces Command Staff, promotions
January 8, 2025
Press release from Alachua County Sheriff’s Office
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – We have some celebratory news and new leadership here at Alachua County Sheriff’s Office! Sheriff Scott would like to congratulate and highlight the following employees on their promotions.
- Captain Joshua Crews is promoted to Undersheriff
- Captain Dorian Keith is promoted to Major with the assignment of Jail Director
- Lieutenant Christopher Sims is promoted to Captain and assigned to the Public Information and Community Services Division
- Captain Jonathan Schabruch is promoted to Major and assigned to the Department of Support Services
- Lieutenant Edward Bennett is promoted to Captain and assigned to the Patrol Operations Division
- Lieutenant Kenneth “Jason” Cruse is promoted to Captain with the assignment of Deputy Director of the Department of the Jail
- Sergeant Michael Hurlocker is promoted to Lieutenant and assigned to the Department of Operations Patrol Operations Division
- Sergeant Fred “Todd” Thomas III is promoted to Lieutenant and assigned to the Patrol Operations Division
- Deputy Madison Telle is promoted to Sergeant and assigned to the Department of Operations Patrol Operation Division.
- Deputy Christopher Dasher is promoted to Sergeant and assigned to the Department of Operations Patrol Operation Division.
- Classification Caseworker Reshone Flanders is promoted to Contract Monitor in the Department of the Jail
- Senior Executive Assistant to the Sheriff Courtney Barreca is promoted to Deputy Director and assigned to Department of Administrative Services
Congratulations again! We know you will continue to make us proud and serve the citizens of Alachua County and our agency with dignity and grace.
Hey, look—it’s the ego-driven undersheriff who berates handicapped people in front of the Tower Road Library.
Please tell us about the incident.
You must be talking about ExPIO Art Forgery. Yeah I thought he looked familiar. Saw it when I was leaving church.
Ok Art, You retired, now go home.
Clovis 2.0
Wow! Married Chris Sims is on a dating site. Great example of dignity and honor.
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Yeah, hopefully he doesn’t mess with Lisa Sacassio like he did with Deputy Spencer and the others. He’s already been removed from PIO once before.
What about the PIO In south Florida he was banging while on “conferences”
Crews has an ego the size of a hot air balloon. That and the deputies lack of respect for him will be his downfall. No question about it.
The blue voters who didn’t do research but instead just stuck to party line when voting for Scott have no idea what they’ve done to ASO and in turn the County’s citizens. Unfortunately it’s really bad.
Clovis Mini me in charge! Maybe the ACSO will jump in and fund the old Reichert House Youth Academy since the new ACSO old friends are looking for more free taxpayer money over what SBAC approved back in May last year! Watch your wallets!
If crime falls he’ll take credit instead of thanking Trump, MAGA.
Trump lied to you about crime rates and you probably believed him. You know he lies at least as often as he stumbles on the truth – because he doesn’t care what the truth is. You get that, right?
“…The FBI data also shows a 59% reduction in the U.S. property crime rate between 1993 and 2022, with big declines in the rates of burglary (-75%), larceny/theft (-54%) and motor vehicle theft (-53%).
Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those captured in the FBI data. Per BJS, the U.S. violent and property crime rates each fell 71% between 1993 and 2022.
While crime rates have fallen sharply over the long term, the decline hasn’t always been steady. There have been notable increases in certain kinds of crime in some years, including recently.
In 2020, for example, the U.S. murder rate saw its largest single-year increase on record – and by 2022, it remained considerably higher than before the coronavirus pandemic. Preliminary data for 2023, however, suggests that the murder rate fell substantially last year….”
Pew Research April 24, 2024
If you believe anything the FBI says, then you’re a bigger fool than I thought.
Then who are you listening to that is more credible?
Baloney. Fake news
I suggest you look at the FBI crime stats, they’re a lot more reliable.
The Biden administration and FBI miss calculated it’s crime state and got it wrong again. Seek treatment for you’re TDS.
Wait, do you mean the George Soros FBI, the FBI that let Hillary Clinton have her own “at home” sensitive information network, or the FBI that FJB used to prosecute anyone who opposed his family? You are such a BELIEVER of BS! Maybe you are hoping for a Medal from FJB like the rest of the America Hating Pric*s!
Yeah….he has to fill all those vacancies with his political cronies.
Best of luck to everyone left at ACSO.
Clovis Watson has always been an awesome public servant of North Central Florida. This is a man who grew up in the projects. Worked his way up to be the Deputy Police Chief in Alachua, City Manager, served 8 years in the State House of Representatives and was the first black Sheriff of Alachua County. Knocking out an incumbent of well over a decade.
Whatever monster you think he is you have mistaken. He is loved by many, respected by even more. He’s intelligent has fought for those who can’t fight for themselves for many decades. Leftover Darnell scum keep trying to tear this great man down. My friends, you can’t possibly tear him down. When Clovis resigned because of illness and allowed Governor Desantis to make an appointment, he did so with dignity. Sheriff Gainey was to take over on October 1, 2023. Sheriff Watson turned the keys over two weeks prior to allow former Sheriff Gainey to transition and hit the ground running. Former Sheriff Gainey did not afford that same respect to the new Sheriff of Alachua County. No smooth transition there.
If you disgruntled officers would check your egos at the door and realize why you do this job, all would be fine.
Never mess with mama bear as they say. Sheriff Watson promoted a white female officer to one of the highest positions at ACSO. When her son who also works for the same department was reprimanded, mama bear lost control. This is common knowledge in the agency. This is why family should not work for the same governmental agency.
Many of you keep talking about an investigation and criminal charges. They say where there is smoke there is fire. When an investigation goes on for years needlessly, that smoke becomes fog. It was just a facade and the fog will clear.
When an attorney and her bestie and a state law Enforcment investigator team up to settle political scores, it spells corruption at the highest level. Thank goodness for the AG.
More to come…………
Thanks for stopping by Clovis.
“Eyes are Watching,” anyone who stands along side and supports corrupt racists should abandon their office as well. You are correct, eyes have been watching but what you didn’t count on was the fact that ears have been listening, and pretty soon mouths will be speaking.
What corruption happened? Curious to know.
Tell us why hundreds -yes HUNDREDS -of employees quit, got demoted or fired after Clovis took office. Tell us how many gallons of gas he allowed his family and friends to pump into their personal cars. Tell us why DeSantis was on a path to remove Clovis and install Gainey who took great lengths to repair the heavy damage Clovis did.
The investigation was done in a matter of months, wrapped with a bow, and presented to Brian Kramer on a silver platter. Kramer never held a grand jury to present the indictments, instead he allowed Clovis and his cohorts to resign. Kramer then sat on the case for over a year, only choosing to recuse himself after endorsing Gainey and with the belief that passing the matter off to the 3rd Judicial Circuit would show republican voters that he was “doing something.” The men and women of the agency and the residents of this county deserve far better.
Kramer is right up there with Scott and Clovis.
To Eyes: I look forward to your further attempts at rewriting and whitewashing history.
I am sure your future installments will include how Clovis is a fine upstanding example of a man with Family Values. I mean. any person who has five children with three different women, one which he bothered to marry, is a Family Man. Look at the courthouse records, before they get purged, between 1980 and 2000 to see the enormous amount Clovis was spending on lawyers to fight numerous child support actions filed by his baby mamas. And on the salary of a junior police officer.
I am sure your future installment will refute the old saying that “the apple does not fall far from the tree.” You can use your knowledge of red fruit, gravity, and GPS coordinates to explain why one of the sons of this fine Family Man is a Registered Sex Offender. Public records, so inconvenient.
I look forward to your rewriting of history. . .
You are full of crap.
Momma Bear earned her rank the honorable way. Unlike another female deputy who got hers the old fashioned way.
Better read some of the law suits
Can we throw up now from the taste of tge BS you are slinging. Clovis …. how many kids you got, run away from your obligations as a parent. That really shows integrity and honest living…
Hitler was also loved by many.
Let the clown show begin
WELL AT LEAST THEY ARE IN UNIFORM AND ARMED!!! MORE THAN THE WATSON FIVE BUT NOT AS MUCH AS SHERIFF GAINEY! IT A SHAME THE DEMORATS RIGGED THAT ELECTION WITH AN INDEPENDENT CANIDATE WITH NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE TO TAKE JUST A FEW VOTES FROM GAINEY…SAME OLD GOULOG.
We should have kept Sheriff Darnell and avoided all this foolishness. Shame on those of you who fell for the George Floyd BLM nonsense.
In other news, Sheriff Scott has announced his promotion from a Five Star leader to a Fifty Star leader, with the taxpayers funding the solid gold stars, which weigh one pound each. As the Sheriff is unable to move under all the weight, this is to announce the creation of the new position of Star Carrier Undersheriff to carry 45 of the stars for the Sheriff. This position is funded at a salary of $230,000 per year. Congratulations to the first Fifty Star Sheriff in the universe. He be da best!
Well racism is alive and well.
Yes, it is and as a White person I’m getting sick and tired of being attacked because of my race.
Congrats to Undersheriff Joshua Crews, I’ve seen the respect officers give him. We’ll deserved and hard_earned
A little birdie shared that in the wee hours of the morning, just a week or so before he was set to be sworn in as sheriff, the then-sheriff-elect, who was still an active City of Alachua cop at the time, made the brilliant decision to drive while intoxicated. According to the birdie, a City of Alachua trainee was told to pull over a dark-colored Chevy Challenger that had been swerving and driving all over the place. The trainee flipped on the lights, and the Challenger pulled over. As the trainee approached, the window rolled down, and—surprise, surprise—it was Chad Scott behind the wheel. After a casual brush-off, Scott went on his merry way. The trainee, understandably a bit shocked, went to his sergeant, who basically told him that if he valued his job, he’d better zip his lips and forget the whole thing ever happened.