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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 13, 2024

The Tennessee sheriff who was indicted and arrested on more than a dozen official misconduct charges in Gibson County is now facing charges in Davidson County, Action News 5 reports. Gibson County Sheriff Paul Thomas yesterday was indicted on 18 criminal counts and booked into Nashville’s detention center. The actions were taken in both counties after an investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office identified a scheme by Thomas to “enrich himself and a group of investigators by profiting from the labor and care of Gibson County and Tennessee Department of Correction inmates.”