Parke County Sheriff speaks on Warrant Wednesday program
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — One local sheriff's department is using the power of social media to help find individuals with active warrants.
Parke County Sheriff Jason Frazier says that they have been doing Warrant Wednesday for over two years now. Every Wednesday, the department posts a photo of the person in hopes that the public can provide information that may lead to their arrest. Frazier says that each photograph gets between two and three hundred shares, along with around 100,000 views on each photo.
'I'd say we're at about an 80 percent success rate with it, so I think it's successful,' Frazier says. 'There's many arrests that I'm proud of, we've had many arrests made, people turn themselves in. We even had an individual turn himself in saying he did not want to be featured on Warrant Wednesday, which I thought was amusing.'
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