Crenshaw to take the oath for a third term

Mike Crenshaw, now in his 33rd year in law enforcement, looks to the start January 1 of a new four-year term as Oconee County sheriff.  He appears to have no regrets, even though he once earned more money as a part-time mail carrier than he did when he was a rookie cop in Westminster. Law enforcement work is in his family.  His late father, James Crenshaw, was a deputy when Mike was a child.  His dad is remembered as a community police officer who often went door-to-door and enjoyed a rapport with those he served and protected. And there’s a picture that hangs prominently in the office that shows him as a 10-year old, his father, and the late Sheriff Myron Green at the scene of a moonshine still bust around 1975 in the Madison Community.  In 2013, Crenshaw succeeded the retiring Sheriff James Singleton after a calamitous election in which one of his opponents was arrested and went to prison when convicted on the charge of solicitation to commit a felony—a case that involved a plot to kidnap a judge.