 – Fremont County Sheriff Ryan Lee gave his monthly report to the Fremont County Commission on Tuesday.){kind=link}
(Lander, WY) – Fremont County Sheriff Ryan Lee gave his monthly report to the Fremont County Commission on Tuesday.
As of this week, he said there were 139 inmates being housed at the Fremont County Detention Center, including 23 people that were booked in over the weekend.
The inmate population includes 98 men and 41 women, he said, plus one adult at the Wyoming State Hospital and another at the Hot Springs County Jail.
Thirty-eight of Fremont County’s inmates have been sentenced to the local jail, Lee said, including 29 men and nine women.
The other 101 inmates are pre-adjudicated, Lee said, and of those, 54 percent originated out of the Riverton Circuit Court, 41 originated out of District Court, and 5 percent came out of the Lander Circuit Court.
Over the last 28 days, Lee said 247 criminal defendants have been booked into the detention center, including 108 from the Riverton Police Department, 79 from the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, 45 from the Lander, Police Department, seven from Wyoming Highway Patrol, five from the Shoshoni Police Department, and three from the U.S. Marshals Service.
Calls for service
During the month of May, Lee said the Fremont County Dispatch Center took 5,300 calls, and of those, 2,000 were dispatched out, including 1,194 to law enforcement.
Of those law enforcement calls, Lee said 700 went to the FCSO, 397 went to the LPD, and the rest went to the Shoshoni and Dubois police departments.
The dispatch center took 637 calls related to requests for medical services, Lee said, including 603 that went to Frontier EMS.
He noted that Frontier’s total includes “non-emergent” transfers.
The rest of the calls for medical services involved “air assets” that were dispatched in Fremont County, Lee said.
The dispatch center also received 204 calls related to fires, including controlled burns, Lee said, calling it a “busy time of the year for that here in the county.”
So far this year, the FCSO has responded to 2,875 calls for service, Lee said, and local search and rescue crews have conducted 25 missions during the fiscal year – down by one compared to the same time last fiscal year.
“Our search and rescue folks are gearing up for (what’s) probably going to be a busy summer here,” Lee said, noting that a water rescue incident already took place last weekend in Lander. “Obviously the rivers are pushing, and they’re going to continue to do that for the next few weeks. My personnel is on standby to assist with whatever needs to be done … to make sure that we can logistically take care of problems as they may arise.”
For more information, call the FCSO at (307) 332-5611.