Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office Employees Benevolent Association

06/16/2025

Our annual CCSOEBA scholarship has returned again for 2025 and several students from various school districts submitted essays that were in turn anonymously submitted to Sheriff’s Office employees to be voted on. We would like to congratulate Allen Root, a 2025 graduate of Randolph Central School for winning the scholarship. Allen is the son of Nathan and Peggy Root of Randolph NY. He is planning to attend Alfred State College in the fall to pursue his desire to eventually go into the law enforcement field. Best wishes and good luck to Allen in his coming years!

As always, we want to thank everyone who has continued to support our organization by donating to us! Without all of you this wouldn’t be possible!

11/07/2024

Hi everyone! We're running our yearly raffle!
Each ticket is $100 and you have a chance at winning $10,000. Only 300 tickets will be sold and drawing is on November 22nd!

An attached ticket is provided to you so you can see the prizes to be won. Top 3 prize winners will be paid out by check for tax and reporting purposes and the rest of the prizes will be paid in cash.

All proceeds of this raffle go directly back into our community to help with emergency situations, food bank donations, scholarships and many other things!

We can accept cash or paypal @ Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office Employees Benevolent Association

If you would like a ticket please message this account and we will get you set up with one!

Thank you all for your donations throughout the year as this association would not be possible without all of you!

10/21/2024

Thank you to everyone who helps keep our association going! We wouldn't be able to do this stuff and help community members without all of your donations!

DEPUTY DONATION: Pioneer School Resource Officer John Dowd presents a check to senior James Cook on behalf of the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office Benevolent Association. The association regularly makes donations to community members in need. Thank you!

09/13/2024

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

On September 13th 2024, at approximately 2:16am, Bradley E. Gabel, 38 of Gowanda NY, Brynn A. Haskins, 40 of Ferguson KY, Kayla M. Mitchell, 26, of Lawtons NY and Charles M. Braswell, 39 of Gowanda NY were taken into custody following a traffic stop conducted on South Main Street in the City of Salamanca. During the traffic stop deputies located 33.2 grams of suspected fentanyl, 4.2 grams of suspected crack co***ne, 1.8 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 7.1 grams of amphetamine/dextroamphetamine pills, and 7.0 grams of Clonazepam pills. Deputies also seized $4,347.00 and a plethora of drug paraphernalia from the arrestees. All were charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Narcotics 3rd with Intent to Sell, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Stimulant 3rd with Intent to Sell, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Narcotics 3rd, Criminal Possession of a Stimulant 3rd, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance 7th, Criminal Use of Drug Paraphernalia 2nd, along with V&T violations.

All arrestees were transported to the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office for processing and then to the Town of Ellicottville Court for arraignment. Gabel was remanded to the Cattaraugus County Jail without bail, Braswell was remanded to CCJ with bail set at $10,000.00 cash, $20,000.00 bond or $40,000.00 partial secure bond. Mitchell and Haskins were both released on their own recognizance. All arrestees are due back in the City of Salamanca Court at a later date for further proceedings.

08/26/2024

We would like to take a minute to first and foremost congratulate our former Sheriff Tim Whitcomb on his well deserved retirement after 34 years in law enforcement!

We would also like to introduce our new Acting Sheriff Eric A. Butler to all of our followers! He has honorably served 27 years in Law Enforcement in Cattaraugus County. Sheriff Butler holds a Criminal Justice degree from Jamestown Community College and SUNY Brockport, as well as being a 2009 graduate of the FBI National Academy.

Along with all these movements we would also like to introduce everyone to our new Undersheriff Nate Root. Undersheriff Root has served in law enforcement for 25 years total with 22 of those years being with the Sheriff’s Office and three years with the Salamanca Police Department.

If you see them out and about in your community make sure to stop and say hello!!

08/09/2024

Cattaraugus County Fair Bike Winners
The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) holds a raffle for a boys and girls bicycle every year in their tent at the Cattaraugus County Fair. The bicycles are purchased by the Cattaraugus County Benevolent Association (CCBA). The winners of the bikes this year were Charlotte Wilkey, 7 years old from South Dayton, and Brentley Worthington, 7 years old from Cuba. They are pictured below with CCBA President Kristi Weaver (left) and Administrative Lieutenant Melanie Churakos of CCSO. Congratulations to our 2024 winners!

06/19/2024

We are here to congratulate Xavier Hilmey of Allegany Limestone High School on winning the 2024 CCSOEBA scholarship award! Xavier is the son of David and Tamara Hilmey of Allegany NY. He is planning to attend the University of Pittsburgh for criminal justice based computer science focusing on cybersecurity. We want to wish the best of luck to Xavier in his future endeavors!

Also, thank you to all of our supporters because without you and your donations we would not be able to reward these hard working scholars!

05/07/2024

A large thank you goes out to Southern Tier Professional Pest Control Inc. and Sassy's Truck Stop for the generous monetary donation made to our association! We appreciate you both!

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05/07/2024

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05/02/2024

A sincere thank you to Geraldine Hart for the generous donation to our association! We appreciate your contribution!

Anyone looking to make a monetary donation to the association we have provided a slip for you to fill out and send it! Anything and everything helps! Thank you!