Thousands of honey bees invaded the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Somewhere between 40,000 to 50,000 honey bees set up a home for themselves inside an old vent from the jail, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
But this was a problem deputies, corrections officers and maintenance staff couldn’t handle on their own.
So the sheriff’s office recruited beekeepers Bill Case and Jim Lenke to handle the stinging bugs.
Case and Lenke had to be lifted more than 30 feet in the air to reach the vent, where the bees had nested.
The bees were removed and relocated to a local farm.
“They are both heroes in our books,” the sheriff’s office said.
