Two Russell County, Alabama Sheriff’s Detectives Indicted for Assaulting a Man in Custody

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The Justice Department announced today the arrest of Russell County Alabama Sheriff’s Office Detectives Kirby Dollar, 37, and Timothy Watford, 42.  

A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned an indictment on March 22, 2011, charging Dollar and Watford with civil rights offenses related to their assault of a man in custody on Nov. 26, 2010.

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Former Alabama Mayor Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Return – Caught Embezzling from City Two Years Before

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John Jackson, the former mayor of White Hall, Alabama pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Walker in U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Ala., to one count of filing a false tax return, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on March 11, 2011.

According to the court documents, Jackson admitted filing a false joint 2004 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040, that did not report all of the total income earned by Jackson and his spouse.

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