Legislative Audit Committee moves to Subpoena Newton County Sheriff

The Arkansas Legislative Joint Audit Committee for Counties and Municipalities has filed a motion to subpoena Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler.

He was the only one of three county officials not appearing before the committee on Thursday to discuss probation fees previously collected by the county.

According to KYTV/KSPR, the committee also called District Judge Gail Inman-Campbell and Clerk Kortine House. They told the committee the collection, started by the previous administration, had reportedly not been done correctly and has since been halted.

Sheriff Wheeler was meant to speak on the committee’s reported findings from a transaction involving the office in June 2019. Tim Jones of the committee said, “The county sheriff sold 103 seized firearms to a gun dealer for $12,150. Rather than issuing a payment to the county, the dealer issued payment to a car dealership and subsequently purchased a vehicle from the dealership with the gun sale proceeds as credit.”

After Sheriff Wheeler did not appear, the committee filed a motion to have him summoned at their meeting on June 3.

(From KTLO)