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Former sheriff gets 8 months

Former Newton County Sheriff Jerry Lynn Jones got an eight-month federal prison sentence, was fined $3,000 and ordered to pay restitution of more than $100,000 for failing to report self-employment earnings  while drawing disability payments.

Jones, who lives in Marble Falls, was sentenced today in Harrison. He concealed his earnings for 10 years, from 1997 to 2007, and pleaded guilty last summer.

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So old sheriff gets 240 days in jail for cashing 117 checks that he was not eligible for. That sounds like the amount of time he would have served for a crime in Little Rock since the jail is over crowded. Muggers and burglers are only held for a day or two before being freed to further pillage.

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