After presiding over Kimble County grand juries for three decades, former District Attorney Ron Sutton has been indicted there on two charges of misapplication of fiduciary property, a third-degree felony, officials said.
Sutton, lead prosecutor in the 198th judicial district from 1976 until last year, declined to comment when reached at his Junction home.
Special prosecutor Bill Turner said the indictment issued Wednesday concerns expenditures of seized funds for travel and staff bonuses, in “a continuing course of conduct,” from January 2002 until Dec. 31, 2008, when Sutton retired.
Sutton was served with arrest warrants at the Kimble County Jail Thursday afternoon, then booked and released on a personal recognizance bond, officials said.
Turner, the district attorney in Brazos County who was appointed special prosecutor on the case in August, said: “The investigation is complete, from our end.”
Sutton previously defended his use of the forfeiture account funded by seizures from criminal suspects, which statutes say must go for law enforcement purposes. He dismissed criticism as “much ado about nothing.”
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5 comments:
When people who serve the public trust betray that trust, it hurts all the more.
He shouldn't be released on personal recognizance.
I hope the judge throws the book at him. And the bench too if he can lift it.
Lawyers get away with a lot of stuff, too easily. They should be treated the same as other criminals.
boy doesn't this scare the hell out of anybody a DA with a criminal mind? what else did he do cause you know this isn't the first time he went bad
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