Ex-Athens detective pleads to felony misconduct in cash theft
The Knowville News Sentinel by News Sentinel staff - May 28, 2009
LOUDON, TN - A former Athens, Tenn., police detective pleaded guilty to felony official misconduct in Loudon County Criminal Court on Thursday. Bill Matthews previously confessed to taking more some $8,900 from an Athens city safe, which a state comptroller's audit report verified was missing more than $46,000, drugs and a handgun last year. Loudon County Criminal Court Judge E. Eugene Eblen gave Matthews a two-year suspended sentence, ordered him to pay $11,600 in restitution to the city of Athens, plus court costs, and to undergo alcohol and drug assessment and any recommended treatment, according to a statement released Thursday by Ninth Judicial District Attorney General Russell Johnson. Matthews admitted to TBI investigators last year that he took the cash. A McMinn County Grand Jury, however, refused to indict him on any criminal charges. Johnson was appointed to prosecute the case after Tenth Judicial district Attorney General Steve Bebb recused himself.
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