{"id":4988,"date":"2012-03-20T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2012-03-20T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:58:57","slug":"lee-county-sheriffs-office-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/03\/lee-county-sheriffs-office-gives-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Gives Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4989\" style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sheriff-Mike-Scott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4989\" title=\"Sheriff Mike Scott\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Sheriff-Mike-Scott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Mike Scott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a continuing effort to give back to the community and help supplement a variety of great causes during these challenging economic times, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott recently allocated forfeiture funds totaling nearly\u00a0$150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last eight years, Sheriff Scott and his team have donated approximately $750,000 in cash and assets to numerous charitable, not-for-profit organizations.\u00a0These monies represent property seized through aggressive law enforcement and employ the sheriff&#8217;s philosophy that criminals should pay the price for their crimes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proud of the great work our brave deputies do and will continue to support our community both personally and professionally,&#8221; says Sheriff Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Forfeiture funds are used for training, equipment and charitable donation.\u00a0 Non-profit organizations benefitting from forfeiture funds include the Rape Trauma Center, NAMI Lee County and Quality Life Center of SWFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a continuing effort to give back to the community and help supplement a variety of great causes during these challenging economic times, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott recently allocated&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}