Trumbull sheriff opens substation in Mecca

WARREN – Trumbull County Sheriff Thomas Altiere says he’ll be opening a substation to service the northern section of the county, a move his political opponent says is just political.

Altiere said Thursday that he will open the substation at the Mecca Volunteer Fire Department station on state Route 46 in about two weeks.

The sheriff said he has wanted to create the substation over the years, but didn’t have the equipment.

He can now use the computer outlet at the fire station so deputies can take a report at a crime scene, drive to the substation and file it with a link between the station and sheriff’s office in Warren.

“We saw an opportunity and we took it,” Altiere said.

The sheriff says he has 13 deputies on patrol in the north.

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