CHESTER – Paul Arteta started in the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in November 1992 and 30 years later, he was elected on Tuesday as the agency’s new sheriff. A Republican, he defeated Democrat Bernie Rivers.
The new sheriff declared his own war on drugs and crime.
“If we can’t put them behind bars, we are going take the drugs a way from them. We are going to arrest them for trying to poison all of our children and killing off anybody between the ages of 18 and 50 right now – the age rate is going up and up – and it’s really disgusting, and we need to fight that,” he said. “We need to fight the crime and keep it away from Orange County,” he said. “New York City is a different animal. We are going to keep the New York City crime away from Orange County.”
Arteta, who previously was a captain in the sheriff’s office, is currently serving as deputy chief in the Montgomery Village Police Department.
