Crime Beat

Ashley Hunter ECB Publishing, Inc. Edward Sims, Jr. – January 28 On Monday, Jan. 28, Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Adamczyk arrested Edward Sims, Jr., 54, of Monticello, on a pre-existing Jefferson County warrant. On Nov. 3, 2018, Sims was involved in a burglary after he and another subject broke into a home and stole the victim's nine-week-old Chihuahua. The dog was valued at $1,000, making the burglary a case of grand theft. When a Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO) deputy s