angelatc
02-27-2018, 05:15 PM
TLDR: Man writes op-ed questioning why the SHeriff is paying private bills with taxpayer money, man ends up in jail. Pot butter ...worth the read.
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/02/man_arrested_on_six_charges_fo.html
A 20-year-old man was arrested last week and charged with drug trafficking four days after AL.com published comments he made criticizing Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
Matthew Qualls questioned why Entrekin paid him to mow the lawn at his personal home in 2015 using taxpayer funds allocated for the feeding of inmates in the county jail. Entrekin confirmed that he personally pocketed some of the funds.
As of Tuesday morning, Qualls faced six charges and was being held on $55,000 bail in the Etowah County jail, which Entrekin oversees. Qualls had not been arrested before, according to state records.
Police say the arrest began with an anonymous tip.
Officers with the Rainbow City Police Department and the Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit arrested Qualls on Feb. 22 after responding to an anonymous call reporting the odor of marijuana emanating from within a Rainbow City apartment, according to the police report. The drug enforcement unit, which is a team of agents assigned from the Sheriff's Office and other agencies, accompanied the Rainbow City Police officers to the apartment because they were responding to a drug-related call.
The officers knocked on the door and when one of Qualls' friends opened it, the officers could smell marijuana and saw a small quantity of the drug sitting out in the open inside the apartment, according to the arrest report. They added that Qualls was cooperative throughout the entire process.
Officers arrested Qualls after they allegedly found "1,042 grams of cannabis" in his possession inside the apartment, according to an arrest warrant signed by Entrekin.
Seriously - there's more: http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/02/man_arrested_on_six_charges_fo.html
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/02/man_arrested_on_six_charges_fo.html
A 20-year-old man was arrested last week and charged with drug trafficking four days after AL.com published comments he made criticizing Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
Matthew Qualls questioned why Entrekin paid him to mow the lawn at his personal home in 2015 using taxpayer funds allocated for the feeding of inmates in the county jail. Entrekin confirmed that he personally pocketed some of the funds.
As of Tuesday morning, Qualls faced six charges and was being held on $55,000 bail in the Etowah County jail, which Entrekin oversees. Qualls had not been arrested before, according to state records.
Police say the arrest began with an anonymous tip.
Officers with the Rainbow City Police Department and the Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit arrested Qualls on Feb. 22 after responding to an anonymous call reporting the odor of marijuana emanating from within a Rainbow City apartment, according to the police report. The drug enforcement unit, which is a team of agents assigned from the Sheriff's Office and other agencies, accompanied the Rainbow City Police officers to the apartment because they were responding to a drug-related call.
The officers knocked on the door and when one of Qualls' friends opened it, the officers could smell marijuana and saw a small quantity of the drug sitting out in the open inside the apartment, according to the arrest report. They added that Qualls was cooperative throughout the entire process.
Officers arrested Qualls after they allegedly found "1,042 grams of cannabis" in his possession inside the apartment, according to an arrest warrant signed by Entrekin.
Seriously - there's more: http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/02/man_arrested_on_six_charges_fo.html