Tuesday evening several promotions took place for the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Marion County Sheriff Jason Sandholdt, hosted the event in the courtroom on the third floor of the Marion County Courthouse. Among those honored were Jake Van Voorst a new deputy and Jenae Kaster was named the first Mental Health Deputy.

Two officers were promoted to Sergeants. It is the first time since Sandholdt has been Sheriff that he has had Sergeants on his staff. Promoted to the rank of Sergeant were Deputies Jared Van Wyk and Isaac Short.

Sheriff Sandholdt, “Ever since I’ve been the Sheriff I don’t know if years and years ago if they did or didn’t but ever since I took over as Sheriff we haven’t had the opportunity to have that supervision throughout. We have promoted two deputies. Deputy Isaac Short and Deputy Jared Van Wyk. They were promoted to Sergeant.”

Van Wyk will be the Narcotics Detective; he started in Oskaloosa then came to Knoxville as a deputy.