Medlock also ordered Noel, 53, to pay $270,000 in fines and more than $3 million in restitution to the agencies affected by his actions, telling the former sheriff he had “tarnished the badge and failed everyone in law enforcement.”
Prosecutors accused Noel and his family of spending millions of dollars for personal purchases that included travel, gifts, clothing and vehicles, the News and Tribune reported. Medlock said in June that Noel had used the firefighter association’s funds as a “personal piggy bank.”
The Indiana State Police conducted dozens of searches that uncovered questionable payments for classic cars, college tuition and an aircraft.
It’s great that this cretin is experiencing consequences for his actions, but how fucked up is it that a cop who embezzled gets over a decade in jail, but most of the cops who MURDER get paid suspension, if even that?
Cash is king!
I went to high school in Alabama, and this guy sounds like every other sheriff down there. He just had access to a richer county.
As firefighters, first responders and public servants, we take a higher oath. We are held to a higher standard of integrity,” said Roger Montgomery Jr., a first responder who worked for Noel from 2005 to 2011. Montgomery said firefighters and paramedics lacked proper equipment under Noel’s command, and that emergency personnel were tasked with driving Noel’s personal “limousines,” sometimes leaving just one firefighter on duty — and “putting citizens’ lives in jeopardy.”
He said, too, that non-emergency transfers were often prioritized over 911 calls because those runs netted “more money” from Medicare and Medicaid.
The disgraced former sheriff additionally admitted to tasking county employees with jobs related to his personal collection of classic cars. At least 40 vehicles were confiscated by law enforcement, including a bevy of classics, such as two 1970 Plymouth Superbirds, a 1959 Corvette, and 1966 and 1968 Chargers, according to search warrant returns.
Via raw story
The issue with non-emergency transfers is sadly quite common.
it’s refreshing to see a story about a cop just embezzling, instead of raping and murdering people
or framing people for murders, while the actual murderers go free. ffs… law enforcement isn’t just about putting some rando in jail for life or the death penalty, it’s about getting THE ACTUAL MURDERER off the streets.
I cannot fathom how this one principal is so often disregarded in law enforcement.
Did they get his handcuffs at Claire’s?
So is it twelve or fifteen? I read another article earlier and it said fifteen.
Audit every one of these fucks.
Yeah how in hell could that go on for more than 5 minutes without everyone knowing.
You can mess with someone else’s life but don’t you dare mess with the money of someone more powerful than you. Good to see our legal system functioning exactly as it was designed.
