If you think the headline looks familiar, that's because folks never get enough of using illegal funds for powersports equipment, and we never tire of reporting about it. Whether it's a snowmobile club president buying a snowmobile or a fraudster buying millions worth of snowmobiles, where there's illegal money, there's usually cool toys. But this story is arguably worse because it involves not one, but two sheriffs.
The Curry County Sheriff's Office spent around $390,000 in private donations on a boat and a grill, a PWC, an ATV, off-road vehicles and trailers, and to pay for a retirement party complete with a DJ. All of the goods and services were for the sheriff and his predecessor, county leaders said on Monday. This wasn't one big, blow-out send-off, as the list of goods might suggest, but rather a slow, calculated case of illegal usage of funds spanning from 2009 to 2023.
