Monthly Report April 2026
Dear Citizens,
In April we celebrated National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. "Telecommunicators" is the professional title for those we affectionately call Dispatchers or 911 Operators. They are the true First Responder. The lifeline for not only the community, but for the Officers, Deputies, Firefighters, and Paramedics on the street. They are the hero most will never meet. Please take time to thank and honor these heroes in your community. Let them know you appreciate the job they do. We send them all our thanks and tip our hats in their honor.
These folks are a very special group of individuals. I am proud of our telecommunications officers, the job they do for our officers, fireman, first responders and our community each day. The stress, patience and multiple hats they must wear in a day is not known by most. Even when faced with a troubling or emotional call, those that can stick with you or even gets under their skin, the dispatcher remains calm and carries on. They take a breath, put their emotions aside and keep going because that's what it takes.
Once again, we are very grateful and thank everyone who brought gifts by to our dispatchers and for letting them know they are appreciated during the celebration of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. Your time, kindness and support of our staff is always greatly appreciated.
I was proud to recognize our great group of ladies in April for Administrative Professional's Day. I am grateful and thankful for each of them and the job they do. So, a large thank you and a Happy Administrative Professional's Day to Kristin Bates, Breanna Parks, Mikayla Hippard and Traci Milner. I do sincerely appreciate each of you, all your hard work, dedication and loyalty to me and to the N.C.S.O.
I want to recognize two Navarro County Deputies who have over 30 years of service at the NCSO. Deputy Darren Richardson who is assigned to corrections as the Correctional Food Services Manager and Deputy Fredia Wafer, who previously worked in corrections, patrol and is now assigned to Administrative Deputy. I am proud of these two deputies and want to congratulate them both for their many years of dedicated service to the citizens of Navarro County.
This month we congratulate: Patrol Sergeant Tony Villalobos who has been promoted to Sergeant in our Criminal Investigation Division. He is a certified crisis negotiator and has also been approved and assigned to the NCSO Crisis Negotiations Team,
Corporal Gary Wright on being promoted to Sergeant in the patrol division, Deputy Yakelin Ramirez and Deputy Dakota Yates who were both promoted to Patrol Corporal and Chad Rozanek on his transfer from correctional officer, to correctional maintenance. We wish all these officers the very best in their new positions.
This month I would like to introduce our newest employees to our Navarro County citizens:
Deputy Recruit Nicholas Cabano, who will attend the Navarro College Police Academy beginning in August, Kara Clagett is our newest NCSO communications officer, Adacella Sanchez and Adelynn Munoz as our new correctional officers and Jasmin Perales who is our new administrative assistant. These employees are all beginning their new law enforcement career and we proudly say congratulations and best of luck in your new career at the NCSO.
On April 21st we held a retirement celebration for Deputy Brad Steele. Brad served our citizens for over 26 years in corrections and maintenance at the NCSO. We wish him all the very best; to enjoy his retirement and we again thank him for his dedicated years of service.
The Sheriff's Office had approximately 2,885 calls for service in April and our dispatch received 1,555 calls for assistance to 9-1-1. There were approximately 164 persons arrested and booked into the Navarro County Justice Center and the average daily jail population was 198 inmates. Five inmates were transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and three inmates were transferred to State Jail and SAFP Units to serve their sentences.
In April we estrayed three bulls, sold two bulls at Corsicana Livestock Auction, sold one horse and one pony at Elkhart Horse Sale with a total of $7,019.96 in estray sales for the month.
We are accepting applications for all divisions and currently have vacancies in detention, dispatch, patrol, and the criminal investigation division. Again, the hiring age for dispatch and detention is 18 but with all other enforcement positions, you must be 21 or older to apply. Applications will continue to be taken for any vacancy until the position is filled.
"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday." -Matt's Mullins
God bless and be safe,
Sheriff Elmer Tanner