MelThursday Evening, February 12th The Boar’s Head Morelville, Ohio We were maintaining a visible presence across the State Route from the bar. I didn’t want the ‘Z’ to think we’d just given up and get too comfortable. Meanwhile, my roadblocks were still in place and, out of their view, on down Salt Creek Drive, I was amassing a takedown team made up of the county’s Strategic Response Team augmented with as many of my own troops as I could spare. “Report, Sheriff...” Mason held my two way mike out the window of my SUV to me. I leaned in so I could hear my deputy that was currently on the scene. The SRT squad leader leaned in from the other side. “Go six,” I commanded him over the secure channel. “Down to one sentry in front. Shotgun. Back is reporting an intermittent sentry. Shotgun.

