Former Rutherford County Sheriff Receives Four Years in Prison

Former Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold has been sentenced to four-years in prison. The ruling from Senior U.S. District Judge Marvin E. Aspen came down Thursday.
The former sheriff, according to terms of the plea deal, will have to pay 60-thousand dollars in restitution to Rutherford County.
In January, Arnold, 40, pleaded guilty to three counts of a 14-count federal indictment lodged against him in connection with an unauthorized scheme to sell e-cigarettes to county jail inmates and pocket the money instead of sending the proceeds to the county general fund and trying to conceal his involvement.
He has already served eight-months of his 50-month sentence and will get credit for time served. (WGNS Radio)