Custer County Chronicle

Custer County Sheriff’s Log
Call of the Week
Thursday, March 20
5:29 p.m.: A 21-year-old Custer male who should really know better stole two bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey from a downtown Custer grocery store. The liquor-lifter was subsequently identified and and a deputy went to his house to give him a ticket and confiscate the liquor. The male had only consumed about a third of one of the bottles, but this was apparently enough whiskey to make him a poor sport about the whole thing, yelling at the deputy and tossing the ticket away.           

10 YEARS AGO, 2015
— The North Pole Fire was reported Tuesday, March 10, at 4 p.m., located in the area of Highway 16 and Renegade Road west of Custer. What started as a small grass fire in private property quickly grew to 59 acres on Forest Service land, threatening structures, life and natural resources. Over 60 personnel from the U.S. Forest Service, Custer Volunteer Fire Department and South Dakota Wildland Fire Division worked to contain the blaze. The fire burned both private property and U.S. Forest Service land. It was contained Thursday, March 12.