Sounds like their cleanin' up the Sanitation Department!
LOL!
BTTT
From Helena Daily World - 09/23/02
Tampering suspect faces another charge
By STEVE RUSSELL
World Staff Writer
Already under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigat-ion, Helena sanitation director Larry Gray was arrested this weekend by Helena Police on a charge of "terroristic threatening," according to Gray's attorney, James Valley.
According to a sworn affidavit from Bobby Jones, Jones said that Gray told a city worker to plant drugs in Jones' car and alert the police. However, Jones said in the affidavit, the city worker notified Jones of Mr. Gray's intentions and told Jones that Gray said "he was going to get (Jones)."
"I do fear for my life," Jones wrote in the affidavit.
Helena Police arrested Gray Sunday afternoon and bond was set by Circuit Judge L.T. Simes at $100,000, Valley said. Chancery and Circuit Judge Kathleen Bell reconsidered Gray's bond and set it at $5,000, Valley said.
The bond was paid, Gray was released and he returned to work Monday, Valley said.
Gray also has been charged by the FBI for the alleged "tampering with a witness in an ongoing investigation," another charge involving Jones, Valley said.
The FBI alleges that Gray threatened a witness at gunpoint. According to Bud Cummins, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, the ongoing investigation concerns allegations of voter fraud in Phillips County.
Cummins would not comment on the details of the investigation, nor would he confirm or deny that the investigation concerns the allegation that Gray forged 300 absentee ballots in the primary election for state representative between Barbara King and Arnell Willis.
King won the election by 90 votes.
Valley said that both the federal and local charges pit the word of Jones against the word of Gray.
"Our defense is that it didn't occur," Valley said. In the case of the federal charge, he added, "(the incident) is a figment of Mr. Jones' imagination."
He called the most recent allegation "another bogus charge from Mr. Jones."
Amazing fellow, Mr. Gray.