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Vern Warnke
Vern Warnke is the Sheriff-Coroner of Merced County, California, sworn into office in December 2014 after a nearly four-decade career with the Merced County Sheriff's Office.
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Oct 17, 2026
2026-10-17 8AM SHOW
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6:13Vern WarnkeGUEST
Our, uh, new, um, public works director, Nathan Bray, uh, I tell you what, that man is sharp.
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6:20Vern WarnkeGUEST
He ended up w- I asked him point-blank, had him in the helicopter, and I said, "All right, really, whose responsibility is it?" And in history, uh, everybody's pointing fingers, 'cause there's, like, four or five government ain- entities-
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10:36Vern WarnkeGUEST
And w- a lot of the issues that, uh, you know, were discussed, I literally told, uh, all these, um, city managers, and like I said, the CEO was sitting next to me, and the two assistant CEOs were to my right.
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10:49Vern WarnkeGUEST
And, uh, I literally told them straight up that I, I want to be able to say, "We're the government, and we're here to help," and actually have it mean it instead of the joke.
2026-10-17 9AM SHOW
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16:14Vern WarnkeGUEST
And I, as I pull up, he's in front of the house, and he's got the gun stuck in his waistband.
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16:20Vern WarnkeGUEST
They got deputies rolling, and it was still probably a 15-minute ETA to get a deputy there-
