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Man arrested on six charges four days after publicly criticizing Etowah County sheriff [View all]
From February.
Retweeted by FridayLoomingChaosHat: https://twitter.com/Popehat
Here's one for you: That Alabama sheriff in the news for pocketing $740K in funds meant for jail food? Four days after a local guy criticized the sheriff, local guy gets arrested during a drug raid
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But here's the kicker: Dudes in the apartment were making weed butter, and but the sheriff's office counted the weight of ALL the butter toward his trafficking charge, even though there were only five grams in the butter itself http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/02/man_arrested_on_six_charges_fo.html …
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Man arrested on six charges four days after publicly criticizing Etowah County sheriff
Updated Feb 27; Posted Feb 27
By Connor Sheets csheets@al.com
A 20-year-old man was arrested last week and charged with drug trafficking four days after AL.com published comments he made criticizing Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
Matthew Qualls questioned why Entrekin paid him to mow the lawn at his personal home in 2015 using taxpayer funds allocated for the feeding of inmates in the county jail. Entrekin confirmed that he personally pocketed some of the funds.
As of Tuesday morning, Qualls faced six charges and was being held on $55,000 bail in the Etowah County jail, which Entrekin oversees. Qualls had not been arrested before, according to state records. ... Police say the arrest began with an anonymous tip.
Officers with the Rainbow City Police Department and the Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit arrested Qualls on Feb. 22 after responding to an anonymous call reporting the odor of marijuana emanating from within a Rainbow City apartment, according to the police report. The drug enforcement unit, which is a team of agents assigned from the Sheriff's Office and other agencies, accompanied the Rainbow City Police officers to the apartment because they were responding to a drug-related call.
Updated Feb 27; Posted Feb 27
By Connor Sheets csheets@al.com
A 20-year-old man was arrested last week and charged with drug trafficking four days after AL.com published comments he made criticizing Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
Matthew Qualls questioned why Entrekin paid him to mow the lawn at his personal home in 2015 using taxpayer funds allocated for the feeding of inmates in the county jail. Entrekin confirmed that he personally pocketed some of the funds.
As of Tuesday morning, Qualls faced six charges and was being held on $55,000 bail in the Etowah County jail, which Entrekin oversees. Qualls had not been arrested before, according to state records. ... Police say the arrest began with an anonymous tip.
Officers with the Rainbow City Police Department and the Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit arrested Qualls on Feb. 22 after responding to an anonymous call reporting the odor of marijuana emanating from within a Rainbow City apartment, according to the police report. The drug enforcement unit, which is a team of agents assigned from the Sheriff's Office and other agencies, accompanied the Rainbow City Police officers to the apartment because they were responding to a drug-related call.
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