Former Limestone County, Alabama, Sheriff Mike Blakely has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of theft and an ethics violation. Blakely was convicted of depositing a check for his campaign into his personal bank account and of borrowing up to $29,000 from a jail fund for inmates without paying interest and waiting months to repay the funds.
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