Southern Justice

Ashe County Deputy Jeremy Munday leads a team to track down a man wanted for meth manufacturing and distribution. Ashe Deputy Josh “Hoppy” Hopkins goes after the son of a man who’s been arrested in the county more than 20 times. And Sullivan County Deputies Jackson and Poff literally go creek-diving to capture a man resisting arrest after a chase.

Sullivan County, Tennessee deputies conduct a manhunt for one of their most wanted fugitives, a man called “Berto.” Ashe County, NC deputies try to stop a man from taking his own life and another from assaulting his neighbor.

Repeat offenders take the stage with multiple DUIs, assaults and even a shooting.

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina, the search for a suspected drug offender takes deputies into the densely forested area of Brown Hollow, where a manhunt is literally like looking for a needle in a haystack. When deputies lose radio communication with backup officers, they are left alone as potential targets for an armed criminal on the run.

Sullivan County, Tennessee, Officers Travis Jackson and Jason Hite lead a team on a countywide hunt for a convicted felon. Sullivan County Deputy Michelle Gilliam yet again has to remind those she arrests not to call her “sweetheart” or “honey.” And Ashe County, North Carolina, Deputy Josh “Hoppy” Hopkins discovers there’s a reason why a man is bleeding heavily … and he doesn’t believe it is, as described, an “accident.”

Just when the deputies of Sullivan County, Tennessee, and Ashe County, North Carolina, are thinking they've seen it all, a dispatch call comes in to corral a donkey on the loose in the streets. It's one of the rare types of incidents not covered in patrol training.

Summer is approaching, which brings more trouble to Ashe County, North Carolina. Along the Appalachians, deputies deal with multiple domestic violence calls day-in and day-out, and even stumble upon a wanted drug dealer in the process. Deputy Hopkins faces uncooperative criminals, while Deputy Jackson must make a tough decision about a mentally unstable man.

The search is on in Sullivan County, Tennessee, for a “Blue Ridge bandit,” a woman with a rap sheet who is now wanted for a string of household burglaries. In Ashe County, North Carolina, Deputy Josh “Hoppy” Hopkins tries to track down a suspected meth dealer and finds he may collect not only drugs, but guns.