Warrant Service Signed June 11, 2025 View agreement →
- Signed by Catawba County Sheriff's Office: Don Brown
- Signed by ICE: Madison Sheahan, Deputy Director
- Public affairs contact: Major A. Turk, 100 Government Drive Newton, NC · 828-465-8349
- Agreement signed
- June 11, 2025
- Residential population
- 89,304FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 165FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 91FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 256FBI 2025
- Population policed
- 158,652
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Operating budget
- $18,014,449
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
On the ballot on November 3, 2026.
Don Brown
Republican unopposed signed the 287(g) agreement
Candidates: N.C. State Board of Elections, 2026 candidate list · archived copy
How Catawba County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 68.4%
- 59,577
- Harris
- 30.5%
- 26,569
- Others
- 1.1%
- 963
Trump won the county by 37.9 points over Harris. 87,109 votes cast.
Sources: MIT Election Data and Science Lab · Bolts · N.C. State Board of Elections, 2026 candidate list (a sheriff contest in all 100 counties on Nov. 3)
Memorandum of Agreement
The full agreement between Catawba County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
- Address
- P. O. Box 385 Newton
- Phone
- (828) 464-5241
Agreement History
Dated by when each agreement was signed; where ICE's public data lagged more than two weeks behind, the first-seen date is noted too. Changes we can't tie to a signed document are dated by when they were detected.
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- + Warrant Service Officer
Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: NC0180000.
Dive deeper
The 287(g) participation data doesn't tell us anything about what happened after the agreement was signed. To learn more, the public will need to ask or formally request information. MuckRock is organizing public records requests about immigration enforcement nationwide: