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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Johnette Cruz joins to discuss Clinton Co. sheriff scandal

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

From the WIBC Newsroom, Johnette Cruz is joining us in the studio.

0:09.0

Hey, good morning.

0:09.7

Good morning.

0:10.9

You have got some interesting articles up right now at WIBC.com and some good reporting.

0:18.0

The title of this one, you could not even put the full quote up on the website.

0:22.9

I was trying to be safe. Okay. So tell us about it. This involves the board president from

0:29.3

Clinton County Sheriff's Department. Yes. I literally feel like I'm seeing a soap opera unfold

0:34.8

right before my own very eyes. It's reaching a fever pitch.

0:37.9

It is going crazy.

0:39.1

So last week they had another sheriff's merit board meeting.

0:42.6

So the past few months and actually the past few years,

0:45.6

Clayton County, the sheriff's office, has been involved in lots of alleged accusations

0:51.3

of things happening.

0:52.6

You know you have the sheriff and his civilian wife, who's the jail matron, accused of

0:57.3

misusing funds.

0:58.4

And so they're going to be going to court in a couple of months because they're supposed

1:01.7

to pay back.

1:02.2

I believe it's about $329,000.

1:04.4

That's just one part of it.

1:05.6

Then the next part of it is that there was this rumor swirling around that a civilian

1:10.0

employee within the sheriff's

1:12.4

office was having an affair with a captain on staff. And so they keep saying it's a civilian

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