Sheriff's Office Names Employee of the Quarter

Deputy First Class Clint Thaxton has been selected as the Headquarters Bureau Employee of the Quarter for the first quarter of 2012, according to Lt. Col. D.T. Smith of the .

He is recognized for being instrumental in working with the U.S. Marshals Service Taskforce in extraditing a suspect, wanted for statutory rape, back to Forsyth County.

In April 2010, a warrant was issued for Victor Rojo, now 20 years old, for the rape of a 14-year-old girl. In October of that year, the same teenage girl disappeared from her home. Rojo was again a suspect.

A month later, in November, the young girl returned home and was charged as a runaway. During this time period, on a couple of occasions, information was obtained regarding Rojo’s probable whereabouts as he moved from state to state.

In September 2011, DFC Thaxton was assigned to work on the case with the Taskforce.

“DFC Thaxton still had no leads until February 2012, when he received more reliable information that Rojo was in the Chicago area,” said Lt. Col. Smith.

The new information was relayed to the U.S. Marshals Service in that city, and on March 6 of this year, Rojo was arrested in Cook County, Illinois. He was extradited back to Forsyth County on March 22 and is currently in custody at the awaiting trial.

“Although the case was worked by many different individuals in both the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office and the United States Marshals Service, it was the diligent efforts and excellent investigation techniques of DFC Thaxton that eventually brought this fugitive to justice,” Lt. Col. Smith said.

DFC Thaxton has been with the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office since February 2005 and is currently assigned to the Warrant Unit, Support Services Division.