By Maegan Prejean
ABC 9 KTRE
LUFKIN, TX — An armed warrant team has been added to the Angelina County adult probation officer department. Nine officers have finished their training this week and will soon be carrying weapons and making arrests.
Officers will now have different authority over probationers as a warrant team.
“The warrant team will go out and search for absconders, or fugitives from probation, or maybe people who have left treatment that we want to get back into treatment before they do something that bad like commit a new felony,” said Adult Probation Supervisor Dustin Fore.
Last week, officers fired more than 6,000 practice rounds to make sure they’re ready to make any necessary probationer arrest.
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