Task Force Signed November 4, 2025 View agreement →
- Signed by Onslow County Sheriff's Office: Christopher D. Thomas
- Signed by ICE: Madison Sheahan, Deputy Director
- Agreement signed
- March 26, 2025
- Residential population
- 130,093FBI 2025
- Sworn officers
- 167FBI 2025
- Civilian staff
- 147FBI 2025
- Total personnel
- 314FBI 2025
- Population policed
- 197,683
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Operating budget
- $18,650,850
- As reported in the agency's MOA
- Memorandum of Agreement
- View agreement →
Elections
Sheriff
On the ballot on November 3, 2026.
Chris Thomas
Republican unopposed signed the 287(g) agreement
Candidates: N.C. State Board of Elections, 2026 candidate list · archived copy
How Onslow County voted for president in 2024
- Trump
- 67.3%
- 54,960
- Harris
- 31.4%
- 25,684
- Others
- 1.3%
- 1,037
Trump won the county by 35.8 points over Harris. 81,681 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 Onslow County Sheriff's Office and ICE is available below.
View agreement →Agreements on file
2 of 2 models on file
MOAs are not available for every agreement.
Warrant Service Signed March 12, 2025 View agreement →
Named in the signed 287(g) agreement
Contact
Contact information for this agency is not yet available.
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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- + Task Force Model
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First seen in ICE data · March 27, 2025
- + Warrant Service Officer
Data last updated October 16, 2026. ORI: NC0670000.
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: