LIMA — The process to replace Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish, who is resigning at the end of the month, will begin almost immediately, Allen County Board of Elections Chairman Keith Cheney said Tuesday.
The process will be turned over to Juergen Waldick, who in his capacity as the chairman of the central committee of the Allen County Republican Party, not as county prosecutor, will release a timetable in the near future.
Cheney anticipates Waldick will announce the process as well as set a deadline for people interested in the job to turn in a résumé. The applicant has to be a law enforcement officer.
Allen County commissioners will appoint an interim sheriff in the meantime until the local Republican Party can pick a person to take over the job, because Crish held the office as a Republican. That person would have to run in a special election next year to fill what would be two remaining years on Crish’s term starting in 2019. If that person wanted to remain sheriff after 2020, he or she would have to run for a four-year term in 2020, Cheney said.
Crish was re-elected sheriff in the Nov. 8 General Election. He was on the ballot unopposed.
Allen County Commissioner Cory Noonan said the board members will research the law to make sure the procedures are followed to replace Crish.
“Since it’s at the end of the month, we have a little bit of time to look at it,” Noonan said.
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Allen County Sheriff Samuel A. Crish
