Morgan County Clerk Carol Hamby has been indicted on theft charges, according to the TBI.
Hamby was indicted by the Morgan County grand jury on one count of theft over $1,000, official misconduct, and violation of the three-day deposit rule after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigatio probe, a news release states.
According to the release, on Dec. 14, 2010, the state comptroller’s office alerted authorities aftert an audit of the clerk’s office. Auditors found $8,000 missing, the release states.
Hamby was booked Tuesday into the Morgan County Jail and released on bond, records show.
For complete details, see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.