A plea agreement is reached in the case of a former Carroll County Sheriff's Deputy facing several charges involved with claiming money from a program fraudulently.
According to court documents filed earlier this month, Blake Ringberg pleads guilty to three over over two dozen charges he was facing for collecting over $11,000 of money from the Carroll County’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program without supplying the proper documentation that work had ever been done.
The probable cause affidavit filed by the Carroll County Prosecutors office indicated that Ringberg had collected money from the program known as STEP, a federally-funded grant administered by the Arkansas State Police that requires law enforcement officers to conduct traffic stops and write citations for various traffic offenses. An investigation by the ASP showed that Ringberg had not conducted many of the stops that he claimed in turning in information for timed work.
Ringberg was sentenced to four years of unsupervised probation and will also give up his certification as a law enforcement officer in Arkansas.
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