Former sheriff in Arkansas denies dirty office accusations

LITTLE ROCK—The new Hot Spring County sheriff said he'll likely ask Arkansas State Police to investigate what he calls the trashing of the department's Malvern office during the previous administration.

Sheriff Mike Cash said Monday that the office was a mess when he visited it a couple weeks ago, and it's worse now. Cash took office Sunday after defeating former sheriff's deputy Woody Perry in November,.

"There's a strong smell of urine and just trash," Cash said. "I mean there's just stuff thrown everywhere. There's holes in the wall where they've thrown knives. We found a knife sticking in a wall when we got here. We found where they shot a BB gun into a door across the hall."

Former Sheriff Ed Hollingsworth denied the allegations, saying Cash would've thought the office was "beautiful" if he'd seen its condition when he took over four years ago. Hollingsworth said the sheriff's office was built above an old hospital and morgue, and that the basement was flooded for at least six years.

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