TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 18, 2017
Former Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold pleaded guilty today to three counts of the 14-count federal grand jury indictment in the JailCigs case, in which Arnold was accused of illegally profiting from inmates in the Rutherford County Jail. According to the Daily News Journal, Arnold pleaded guilty to wire fraud, honest services fraud and extortion. Joe Russell, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office chief of accounting and a co-defendant in the case, is scheduled to appear for a guilty plea on Friday.