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| Texas Sheriff's Department Investigated in Missing Inmate Money Case |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/26/2002 |
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Lie-detector tests were planned for several officers with the Cameron County Sheriff's Department after a county audit showed between $5,000 and $7,000 missing from jail inmate accounts. The missing money was discovered by County Auditor Mark Yates, who has been auditing the sheriff's department's inmate and commissary funds since October. The money, taken from inmates when they are booked into jail, usually is put into accounts in inmates' name while they serve their sentence. Anyone can deposit money into the accounts. Inmates can draw funds from the account to buy items from the commissary. Yates said he is looking into the 'infrequency' of some accounts. 'If you collect money (from inmates) every day, I should see a deposit (in the bank) every day,' Yates said in Tuesday editions of the Brownsville Herald. 'I was looking at what I call infrequency of certain deposits, things of that nature.' He declined to be more specific, saying he first would have to report his findings to Sheriff Conrado Cantu. Cantu said four lie-detector tests already have been conducted under the supervision of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He said one person refused the test and contacted legal counsel. |
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