Strange Files Impeachment Against Sumter Co Al Sheriff
Rickey StokesViewed: 3413
Posted by: RStokes
Date: Jun 30 2016 7:36 PM
SUMTER COUNTY AL:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's attorney general began impeachment proceedings Thursday against a sheriff accused of running his county jail more like a mob boss than a lawman.
The Alabama Supreme Court must now decide whether to remove Sheriff Tyrone Clark Sr. from office for corruption and neglect of duty, as recommended by a grand jury.
Clark is accused of allowing an inmate held on drug trafficking charges to leave jail, return with contraband and avoid being searched before roaming freely inside the Sumter County jail.
Rodney Coats, 39, was supposed to remain behind bars on $675,000 bond on charges of assault, methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking, receiving stolen property and more. Instead, Clark ordered staff not to shake him down, gave him access to firearms, enabled him to engage in human trafficking from inside the jail, and arranged an unsecured room where Coats had sex with visiting women who had not been searched or monitored, according to Attorney General Luther Strange's report.
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