Honor Roll

Jeremy Meyst

How You Can Help

Donations to the Meyst family can be sent to:

Jeremy Meyst Memorial Fund
Tulare County Deputy Sheriff’s Association
701 W. Main St.
Visalia, CA 93291

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Jeremy Meyst Memorial Fund
Valley Business Bank
701 W. Main St.
Visalia, CA 93291

About the Honoree

At approximately 2:40am on Tuesday, December 24, Deputy Jeremy Meyst with the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department was transporting two inmates from the department’s Porterville substation to the main jail in Visalia, traveling north on Spruce Road toward Highway 198. For unknown reasons Deputy Meyst lost control of his transport van and clipped the guard rail of the Friant-Kern Canal bridge. Deputy Meyst was ejected from the vehicle. Responding officers from the Woodlake and Exeter police departments arrived on scene and performed CPR. Meyst was rushed to Kaweah Delta Medical Center where, tragically, he succumbed to his injuries. The two inmates suffered minor injuries.

Deputy Meyst was raised in the Visalia area and graduated from Mt. Whitney High School in 2001. Deputy Meyst was hired by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department in October of 2004 as a Detention Services Officer. In April of 2006, he was promoted to Correctional Deputy. His last assignment was at the Sheriff’s Main Jail Facility.

Deputy Meyst, age 31, is survived by his wife and two young sons age 7 and 9.