[3/14/18] 3 days after the "Etowah sheriff pockets $750k in jail food funds" story broke, the whistleblower that sparked the investigation was arrested and charged with 6 counts of drug trafficking. He's currently being held on $55,000 bond in the jail overseen by the corrupt sheriff. (link in post)

SourceI made my submission a text post because it's technically a repost so I can't submit the link. The relevant part is near the bottom of the article:Sheets spoke with a landscaper named Matt Qualls who mowed Entrekin's lawn in 2015 and noticed the name of the account on his checks — the "Sheriff Todd Entrekin Food Provision Account." He shared pictures with Sheets."A couple people I knew came through the jail, and they say they got meat maybe once a month, and every other day, it was just beans and vegetables," Qualls told Sheets. "I put two and two together and realized that that money could have gone toward some meat or something."Sheets' initial story was published on Feb. 18. On Feb. 22, Qualls was arrested and charged with drug trafficking after an anonymous call complained of the smell of marijuana from an apartment.Qualls, who had never been arrested before, faces six charges and is being held on a $55,000 bond, Sheets reports. He is detained in a jail that Entrekin oversees.Qualls was arrested by Rainbow City Police, not by the sheriff's department.The Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit added extra charges to his case, including a charge of drug trafficking, which the Rainbow City Police chief said was based on inaccurate weight calculations. (The unit counted 14 grams of pot, infused in five cups of butter, as more than than 1,000 grams worth of marijuana.)"Penalties for drug trafficking are extremely steep in Alabama, where people have been imprisoned for life for the crime," Sheets notes.The sheriff's office denies involvement in Qualls' case, noting that the landscaper was not arrested or charged by the sheriff's office. The extra charges were added by the Drug Enforcement Unit, which consist of agents drawn from the sheriff's department, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.The money scheme is bad enough, but this sheriff is now ruining an innocent man's life over it. This should be the main story. WHAT THE FUCK.