Posted on 02/13/2015 3:17:14 PM PST by Darren McCarty
ATHENS, Ohio — Suspended Athens County Sheriff Pat Kelly was led away in handcuffs yesterday after a jury found him guilty of 18 crimes, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.
Visiting Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove revoked Kelly’s bond. She said he needed to be incarcerated because he posed a flight risk and his conviction on the corrupt-activity charge, a first-degree felony, carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Kelly, 64, could face even more prison time if the judge orders the sentences for his convictions to run consecutively. Cosgrove set sentencing for March 20.
Kelly’s conviction automatically disqualifies him from being sheriff, a position that he said was his “heartbeat” and his lifelong dream.
Interim Sheriff Rodney Smith will remain in the post. He was appointed last year by county Democratic Party leaders after Kelly was placed on paid suspension from the $69,372-a-year job.
The jury in Athens County Common Pleas Court deliberated for about 16 hours over two days.
He was convicted of 12 of 13 theft-in-office charges that he faced, and three of four theft charges. He also was convicted of perjury and failure to keep a cashbook.
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His department must have been his personal piggy bank.
How bout all the people he arrested?
Do they get a retrial? Cut loose?
His testimony is worth dog poop. Vacate their convictions.
Also the epicenter of one of America's richest marijuana growing regions. :pca; product much in favor amongst cannabis gourmets. More dirty money in l'il ole Athens than in Moscow. Everybody in on it. No really. Everybody.
Sheriff Kelly? Great Guy! He must have forgotten to pay someone. Ya notice they had to bring a judge in from outa town and that no one is talking "drugs?" Dirty BIG secret!
BTW, Athens, on a whole 'nother level ... a wonderful, beautiful place.
Did not even pass “Go”?
Or even collect $200.
Way, way down in the article they mention that he is a democrat. If he were a republican it would have been mentioned in the headline and the first paragraph.
In re: Republicans; it's what they say about Quakers in Philadelphia. "We expect much better from them!"
Singing “I Fought the Law and the Law Won” despite the fact that I was “the law”.
Imagine. An Ohio Democrat crook. Who would have thought? Oh, I forgot about Cleveland.
Maybe we should be watching “Goodby Columbus”.
Top Party schools in US -
2014 Ohio University ranked 13th.
OU has made a steady drop on the list since it nabbed the top spot in 2011. It fell to third in 2012 and seventh in 2013
Until the OU students show some Old-Time Spunk, I am cutting the school outa my will. Bobcats? Harrumph! Pussies more likely!
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