Welcome

Rensselaer County Sheriff, Jack Mahar welcomed Grace Bringing Good and Roger Minch, Jr. to the Rensselaer County Jail giving them an inside look at the facilities and explained some of the day to day operations on Rensselaer County’s Annual Senior County Government Day.

Sheriff Jack Mahar of the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office reports on the arrests of two individuals for over a million dollars worth of steroid and other controlled pharmaceuticals. After a 6 month investigation by the United States Postal Inspection Service, DEA Albany, Homeland Security Investigation’s, Rensselaer Police Department and Rensselaer County District Attorney’s Office, Zachery Wilkins, age 33 and Holly Fiato, age 28, of 111 Washington Avenue, from the City of Rensselaer were arrested and charged. 

Wilkins and Fiato were charged with Criminal Possession of a controlled substance 5^th degree on March 1^st 2013 after a search warrant was executed at their 111 Washington Avenue Address.

At this residence members of the law enforcement team seized a substantial amount of steroids and other controlled pharmaceuticals, 2 shotguns and packaging material.  It is estimated that over $1.8 million worth of steroid and controlled pharmaceuticals were seized from the residence.    

There are 44,825 liquid doses of steroids and 289,550 pharmaceutical pills.

On behalf of the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office it is my pleasure to welcome you to our new website. This website has been designed to provide a comprehensive guide to our agency’s many services and responsibilities performed here. Our mission is to provide our citizens with one of the best law enforcement offices in New York State. We will continue to update and make changes to this site in an effort to better keep the residents in our county informed.

We invite you to explore our new site and learn more about us.
We hope you find the information useful and informative,