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Tennessee Comptrollers Find Fault Yet Again with How Law Enforcement Handles Drug Enforcement Funds

July 27, 2019July 26, 2019 Chris Butler

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Tennessee Comptrollers have called out law enforcement officers for yet again mismanaging money in their drug enforcement fund, this time in Tellico Plains in East Tennessee.

Tennessee Police Chief Arrested for Alleged Financial and Sexual Misconduct

July 13, 2019July 12, 2019 Chris Butler

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Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have obtained an indictment for a former police chief accused of misconduct and sexual impropriety. This week the Monroe County Grand Jury returned an indictment against former Tellico Plains police chief James Russell Parks, Jr., according to a TBI press release. Officials…