FAYETTE COUNTY SGT. RANDY THUMANN RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS
A Fayette County Narcotics Unit was given national recognition at an awards banquet in San Diego, California.
Last week, Sergeant Randy Thumann was presented with two awards at the annual Motor Vehicle Criminal Interdiction (MVCI) Conference.
The conference was hosted by the El Paso Intelligence Center and the Drug Interdiction Assistance Program.
Sgt. Thumann not only received an award for the largest cold-stop heroin seizure in the U.S., but he was also announced as the 2017-18 Criminal Interdiction Officer of the Year. This award is the highest attainable for any interdiction officer in the country.
To make the moment sweeter, MVCI staff flew Sgt. Thumann’s wife and family out to the conference, and they appeared as he received the award. Fayette County Sheriff Keith Korenek and Sgt. Ron Naumann also attended the conference with Sgt. Thumann.
Wow. Well-deserved award.
Keep up the good work.
It’s too bad Washington County can’t make large drug busts like they do in Fayette County. I always seem to read about them seizing big loads of drugs in traffic stops.
Good Job Fayette County!!!
Concerned Citizen
The reason for this is that a large portion of I-10 crosses through Fayette County. This section of I10 between Houston and San Antonio is a vey heavily traveled drug corridor, which is the reason for the amount of busts that they are able to make. Fayette County’s Sheriff has also been given immense support by their commissioner’s court to be able to provide support, equipment and training to Sgt. Thumann to be able to become an expert in the field of narcotics interdiction. We are very lucky not to have I10 and this large amount of narcotics traveling through, but we also are lucky that our deputies and city police are spending their time out in the community patrolling and keeping us safe rather than running around on the highway chasing drugs. Just my opinion here but let the federal and state government spend their money fighting the drug trade, local dollars should be spent policing neighborhoods and county roads.