Sheriff, Supervisors tussle over budget

County Supervisors and the Sheriff exchanged sharp words this morning over the county budget and the suggestion by the Sheriff the Ridgecrest jail should be shutdown.
There are holding facilities in Mojave and Ridgecrest where they are held temporarily.
The Sheriff says it would take about an hour for deputies to travel from Ridgecrest to Mojave to book people who are arrested if the Ridgecrest facility were shutdown as he propiosed.
But the Sheriff says it costs $9 million to operate the