Sheriff Rogers outlines crime reduction and community engagement efforts since 2022

When I took office in December 2022, Lenoir County was facing real challenges: rising gun violence, growing drug activity, and neighborhoods worn down by years of unchecked criminal hotspots. I didn’t walk into this job with slogans, I walked in with a 30-year law enforcement career, a plan, and a promise to the people of this county, we will take our communities back.

And that is exactly what we’ve been doing.

Under my leadership, the Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office has executed aggressive, targeted enforcement operations against armed offenders, drug traffickers, and habitual criminals. Working hand-in-hand with state and federal agencies, also the community coming together with the Sheriff’s Office, we have been very successful and have made high-impact arrests, seized dangerous drugs, and removed violent individuals from our streets. When long-standing nuisance properties became magnets for crime, drugs, and violence, we shut them down permanently through strategic nuisance abatement action that brought real relief to families who had been living beside these problems for years.

But we’re not just reacting to crime, we’re attacking it at its foundation. We launched new youth engagement programs, brought education officers back into our schools, and introduced a dedicated DARE outreach vehicle to strengthen our connection with the next generation. We are investing in our children just as aggressively as we confront the criminals who prey on them.

I’ve also made it a priority to restore accountability, professionalism, and morale within the Sheriff’s Office. My deputies know this: we serve with purpose, and we serve with pride. We are visible, we are engaged, and we are focused on real results not politics.

Lenoir County deserves a Sheriff who doesn’t back down, who understands the stakes, and who has the experience to stand between this community and those who threaten it. I have spent my entire career protecting the people of this county from the streets of Kinston as a young police officer to the highways of North Carolina as a State Trooper and I will not stop now.

The work isn’t finished. The criminals who bring drugs, guns, and fear into our neighborhoods are not going to quit and neither am I.

With your support, I will continue pushing forward, fighting harder, and delivering the results this county deserves.

— Sheriff Jackie Rogers

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