Etowah county sheriffs office

AL.com’s report noted that Entrekin and wife Karen in September purchased a house for $740,000 in an upscale section of Orange Beach, Florida, and Etowah County residents questioned how a sheriff could purchases such as house on a five-figure annual salary. … [Read more...] about Alabama Sheriff Accused of Keeping $750K in Gov’t Funding Loses Re-election

Entrekin has worked in the Etowah County sheriff’s office in various capacities since 1982 and was appointed sheriff in 2007. (He lost the Republican primary in June, following a completely different scandal involving a beach house.) The seat of the county is Gadsden, a small town of about 35,000 people and the hometown of Roy Moore. Cross noted that her mother used to think she was going to the Gadsden Mall when she would go out — the same mall where, more than a decade earlier, a woman said Moore first approached her when she was 14. Moore has denied the allegations against him.   … [Read more...] about Sheriff Who Once Endorsed Roy Moore Accused Of Having Sex With Underage Girls

Ivey directed the state comptroller on Tuesday to stop paying a food service allowance — worth about $4,000 annually per sheriff — to sheriffs' personal bank accounts. Ivey is also asking lawmakers to clarify state law so that a larger pot of money for purchasing food, which totals almost $8 million annually, cannot be kept for sheriffs' personal use, spokesman Daniel Sparkman said. … [Read more...] about Alabama Governor: Sheriffs Shouldn’t Pocket Jail Food Money

AL.com had reported in March that Entrekin was able to pocket more than $750,000 over a three-year period thanks to a state law that allows sheriffs to “keep and retain” leftover prisoner meal money. Many sheriffs in the state have interpreted the law to allow them to personally keep leftover funds rather than turn the money over to their respective counties. … [Read more...] about Alabama sheriff who pocketed $750K in inmate food money thanks to state law loses in primary

Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin lost his bid for re-election months after a report from AL.com about his beach house purchase. The sheriff did not deny that he and his wife, Karen, own about $1.7 million in real estate, including the beach home with a built-in-pool worth about $740,000 and a two-story home in Orange Beach worth about $200,900. Entrekin’s annual salary is $93,178.80, AL.com reported. … [Read more...] about Alabama sheriff who bought beach house after pocketing $750G from inmate food fund gets voted out