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A scathing grand jury report on the Franklin County Sheriff's Office describes a dysfunctional agency where the sheriff's teenage daughter disrupted the chain of command and lax evidence handling allowed seized drugs to show up at the high school.
Sheriff Ewell Hunt was arrested Monday after a special grand jury indicted him on a misdemeanor charge of not properly maintaining the records Virginia law requires a sheriff to keep.See the full content of this document
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Franklin County Sheriff Arrested
A statement from Hunt's attorney, William Stanley, said Hunt is innocent.
"We completely disagree with the conclusions, speculations, and conjecture that are the underpinnings of the report," the statement said.Hunt, who is finishing his second year as sheriff, has no plans to resign, the statement said.The charge against him follows other ...See the full content of this document
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