Dan Aykroyd was sworn in as a Hinds County reserve deputy in the Mississippi City’s Sheriff’s Department on Friday, Jan. 24.
Aykroyd, an actor and comedian most known for Ghostbusters, which he wrote and stared in, The Blues Brothers and his time spent on Saturday Night Live, is a Canada native, but was in Mississippi filming his upcoming film Get on Up.
Hinds County Sheriff Tyrone Lewis says that Aykroyd contacted him with a letter, asking to be admitted to the reserve. Aykroyd studied criminology in college and previously served in law enforcement agencies for 16 years in Louisiana.
“He’s very qualified, he can hit the ground running, and he has credentials and has put in a letter of request. Today we’re going to honor that letter of request,” Sheriff Lewis said.
Of course, there are other perks that come with having a famous deputy in the Sheriff Department reserve.
Aykroyd, an actor and comedian most known for Ghostbusters, which he wrote and stared in, The Blues Brothers and his time spent on Saturday Night Live, is a Canada native, but was in Mississippi filming his upcoming film Get on Up.
Hinds County Sheriff Tyrone Lewis says that Aykroyd contacted him with a letter, asking to be admitted to the reserve. Aykroyd studied criminology in college and previously served in law enforcement agencies for 16 years in Louisiana.
“He’s very qualified, he can hit the ground running, and he has credentials and has put in a letter of request. Today we’re going to honor that letter of request,” Sheriff Lewis said.
Of course, there are other perks that come with having a famous deputy in the Sheriff Department reserve.
- 1/28/2014
- Uinterview
Look out lawbreakers, there's a new sheriff in town - and he ain't afraid of nothing. Dan Aykroyd joined the ranks of the Hinds County Sheriff Department's reserve unit on Friday, reports Jackson, Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger. The Canadian native, 61, approached the department after spending time in the Magnolia State while filming Get on Up, a James Brown biopic in which the Ghostbusters star plays the late singer's manager, Ben Bart. "It's an honor to join these ranks today. I understand the challenges that law enforcement face in today's world," Aykroyd said at the swearing-in ceremony, the newspaper reports. The original Saturday Night Live...
- 1/27/2014
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd
- PEOPLE.com
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