CLAYHATCHEE: 4:33 PM Recebtly the Clayhatchee Town Council voted to disband the Clayhatchee Police Department and place all law enforcement under Dale County Sheriff Mason Bynum and the men and women of Dale County Sheriff Department. And daily RSN has heard Dale County Sheriff Deouties on patrol in Clayhatchee. An abandoned vehicle was reported by one shift and later checked checked by another shift. So the deputies are serving and protecting all of the residents of Dale County but are close patrolling Clayhatchee providing the citizems with more detailed law enforcement coverage than before.
DEVELOPING TODAY, like now, Dale County Sheriff Deputy Gabe Hall was working Clayhatchee. Deputy Hall, a new graduate of the police academy, went to make a traffic stop. The vehicle Deputy Gabe Hall went to stop, not Deputy Gabe Hall, made a conscious decision not to stop but rather run. Deputy Gabe Hall announced he was in pursuit of the vehicle with two occupants.
The chase traveled from Clayhatchee into Bellwood. As soon as safe Dale County Sheriff Deputy Gabe Hall performed a “text book” pit manuever on the vehicle and spun them out of control and into a stop. The vehicle was occupied by two people. Deputy Hall was able to quickly exit his patrol vehicle and apprehend one suspect. The second suspect was able to run while Hall was busy wiht the first suspect.
Multiple Dale County Sheriff Deputies, Dale COunty Sheriff Mason Bynum, ALEA – Troopers, Geneva County Sheriff Deputies, WASP ( Wiregrass Aviation Support Program ) air unit is in the air and K-9 tracking dogs are searching for the second suspect.
As RSN said, THERE IS A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN and the men and women of Dale County Sheriff Department do not play. HATS OFF to Deputy Sheriff Gabe Hall on a text book law enforcement action, chase and pit manuever.
