Sheriff says county misled him on plans for police force

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For months, Carroll County?s sheriff had no doubt about it: He?d hire more deputies to police the county as it scaled back patrols by state troopers.

Sheriff Kenneth Tregoning was wrong, caught off guard when commissioners voted to phase out troopers? patrols, cut the role of the sheriff?s office and form a countywide police department.

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