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Jury Convicts Athens County Sheriff On Corruption Charges

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A jury has found suspended Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly guilty of using his office for personal gain. Kelly has been found guilty of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, theft in office and other charges. Besides buying food and clothing with county money, Kelly was accused of selling county property to a scrapyard, and stealing copper wire from a county garage, among other allegations.  He will be sentenced on 18 of the 25 counts in the indictment on March 30.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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