The Gooding Police Department would like to welcome our newest officers to the department. This will bring back up to full staff once training is completed.
Officer Emanuel Marin is a certified officer. He has worked as an officer with the Idaho State Police as well as the Shoshone Police Department / Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
Officer Grady Morrill has several years of experience as a Correctional Officer in Elmore County and has a Criminal Justice degree. He also graduated from Gooding High School.
Officer Skye Sabin is beginning her law enforcement career with a degree in criminal justice. She also graduated from Gooding High School.
It is tax time, which brings about a rise in scams from callers claiming to be the IRS, banks, creditors, or even a sector of the government. DO NOT BE FOOLED. The IRS, or any other businesses and agencies will contact you by mail if there is an issue. Nearly every scam in use follows the same pattern, and is much like Phishing attempts on your computer. They want you to take quick action and provide them with your personal information such as account numbers, passwords, pictures of documents like your driver’s license, etc. They will tell the victim that failure to follow their directions will result in a number of things up to and including arrest as a scare tactic. Should the caller want you to pay for something with a gift card, this should be an automatic red flag of a scam. Other methods are for the victim to cash a check, keep a portion of it and return a check, or gift cards to the scammer. Usually this ends with the original check being fake and the victim charged for the amount of the check. If you feel you need to follow through with such directions, please contact a published number of the company or agency calling you (from your records or from a known phone directory or website) not a phone number provided by them. Even in Gooding victims are losing thousands of dollars to these scams.
Spring is finally here and I would like remind everyone to clear their yards of unwanted appliances or other rubbish. If your neighbor seems to have no way to take care of theirs, see if you can be of assistance. The city should have a spring clean-up day upcoming and the tree and brush yard will be open soon. Any lumber will have to go to the transfer station near Wendell. Some may not wish to use the transfer station as they feel there is a fee to do so. In most cases, this is not the case with the exception of certain items like refrigerators, freezers, tires, or large items, like a hot tub. They do accept nearly everything else to include motor oils, paints, batteries, and construction waste, such as concrete.
