Sheriff Young won’t seek reelection
By Bridget Huber, Bangor Daily News Staff
Piscataquis County Sheriff Bob Young will not seek reelection, he announced Jan. 8 in a message on his office’s Facebook page.
His term ends on Dec. 31.
LUNCH WITH THE SHERIFF — Piscataquis County Sheriff Bob Young chats with Piscataquis Community Elementary School kindergarteners during a Thanksgiving lunch in 2019. Young has announced that he will not seek reelection when his term expires at the end of 2026 after eight years as sheriff and decades in law enforcement.
Young was elected sheriff in 2018 after decades of working in law enforcement, starting out as a corrections officer and dispatcher and rising through the ranks to become chief deputy at the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office.
He also served as a special investigator with the Piscataquis County District Attorney’s Office, working mainly on child abuse and sexual assault cases, according to the Piscataquis Observer.
In the message, Young said that while he had made a few enemies, he would miss the “salt-of-the-earth” people of Piscataquis County.
“I’m finding it’s not the bad guys you remember, rather the folks you could help along the way, and who helped you as well,” he wrote.