Bickel implores council to hire more officers

Huntington County TAB:

A man shoots a gun into the air and threatens to turn the weapon on his family. It's the middle of the night, and the shooting is taking place in a rural home in southern Huntington County.

A lone police officer responds.

A victim is tied up, bound and gagged in a strong-arm robbery in Roanoke.

Again, a solitary police officer responds.

Both incidents could have been deadly, and both happened over the past few weeks in Huntington County, Sheriff Terry Stoffel says. And the fact that one police officer was sent into each situation is not out of the ordinary.