Nodaway Co. Sheriff race featuring rematch, but reversed roles

Now, tonight on kq2 news at ten, we look at the very competitive race for sheriff in nodaway county.

Four the past four years, randy strong has been the chief lawman in nodaway county.

The previous eight, it was darren white, who strong beat out in the 2016 election.

This year, white is back again, looking to regain his job.

The randy strong vs.

Darren white for nodaway county sheriff race is much the same as it was four years ago -- two experienced lawmen touting their decades of experience in protecting their communities.

However, this time, it's strong as the incumbent, defending his job in office.

He says he's proud his work and he's accomplished all of the campaign goals he set out when he took office."i think one of the biggest achievements was working in the spirit of cooperation with other stakeholders and and getting our 9-1-1 centers consolidated.

I brought in a full time dare officer, sgt.

Snell, and he also works as our school resource officer."

Strong says he's also targeted on getting area drug dealers put in jail and is working with other area law enforcement to bring back the major case squad.strong says he believes the people of nodaway county appreciate his experience as an investigator and the right way of solving a crime."i think people want to know that their top law enforcement official in the county is working to make sure their particular case is being looked after.

The way you do that is with effective investigations and follow up.

Good crime scene work, good interview schools and beating the bushes to find out who committed their crime."

Election to strong four years ago, white has stayed in the community working at a family business.

He says he's continued to pay close attention to what's happening at the sheriff's office.(sot "a couple years ago, one of the local newspapers wrote a story up on the sheriff's office budget and how it had dramatically increased.

It has continued down that path.

I think for the amount of increase we've seen we haven't seen any progress."

) white says he'd like to see the sheriff's department once again get involved in the region's cybercrimes task force."those are the people who were dealing not only with our child pornographers and child predators but they were also dealing with all of our scams and horrible things we see online.white defends the work he did while sheriff, including the controversial daisy coleman case that gained national attention when the suspects did not get convicted of raping coleman."when you get a call and within four hours you have everybody rounded up, charged with a crime and ready to go to court.

You can't do any better than that."