Welcome to the Ellis County Sheriff's Office website. This is another avenue, for me as your Sheriff, to help keep you informed of what is happening in your County and YOUR Sheriff's Office. Please visit the site often for updates.

The mission of the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office is to provide professional law enforcement services to citizens and visitors of Ellis County. This Office will strive to enforce the law and maintain order in a fair and impartial manner.

The Sheriff and his Deputies recognize that no law enforcement agency can operate at its maximum potential without supportive input from the citizens it serves. This Office actively solicits and encourages the cooperation of all citizens to reduce criminal activity and within legal limits, to assist in bringing to justice those that prey on the person and property of others.

When you elected me as your Sheriff I promised a new philosophy for the office and changes that would enhance county law enforcement services to you. This website is just one example of the updating we are doing. It is my goal for you to be able to learn of the services available and to provide contact information should you need help from the Sheriff's Office.

Since taking office in 2009 and with the help of Ellis County citizens, we have reduced major crime in Ellis County by 40 percent (figures reported through August 2012). Your Sheriff's Office has the only active narcotics unit in the county to attack local drug issues. We have more marked units on the county roads and highways, have initiated an air wing, marine unit, opened up 288 more beds in the jail, started charging inmates a co-pay for medical services, have put more inmates out on county roads picking up trash and started a vegetable garden (worked by inmates), to name a few. And we have done all this with the same budget the retired sheriff had in 2008.

Come by and visit. Let me know you are coming and I will have hot coffee or iced tea ready for you. My direct office number is 972-825-4901.

ELLIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Johnny Brown, Sheriff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sheriffs’ Association of Texas scholarship winner announced

Waxahachie, Texas – May 16, 2013

Cody Dino Martin of Waxahachie has been awarded a $2,000 academic scholarship from the Sheriffs’ Association of Texas. A 2012 graduate of Waxahachie High School, Cody has completed his first year of studies at Clarendon College in Clarendon, Texas. He will transfer this fall to Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, where he will pursue a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. His career goal is to enter law enforcement.

Cody is the son of the late Capt. Dino Martin, who was serving with the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office at the time of his passing. His mother, Nora, and stepfather, Jeff Brock, reside in Waxahachie.

Cody is the grandson of Teresa and the late Armando Sanchez, Linda and Butch Nelson and the late Frank Shelkosky.

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ELLIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Johnny Brown, Sheriff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sheriff Johnny Brown swears in new Deputy

Waxahachie, Texas – May 13, 2013

Ellis County Sheriff Johnny Brown recently swore in Benton Wright as a Deputy. Wright was hired in April 2009 as a Detention Officer. He obtained his Jailer’s license in October 2009 and passed his Peace Officer’s test in October 2012. Wright will be assigned to the Patrol Division.

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