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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A former Green County sheriff’s lieutenant has pleaded guilty to stealing over $30,000 used in a ruse undercover drug operation. Allen Scott Pillow, 56, of Paragould, pleaded guilty Monday one count of theft of government funds. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced the guilty plea. Pillow entered his plea earlier Monday before United States District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky.
After receiving information that former Lieutenant Pillow might be abusing his role with the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, FBI special agents and task force officers conducted a ruse narcotics investigation and sought Pillow’s help with the investigation. On Nov. 4, 2019, FBI parked a rental vehicle in a commercial parking lot in Paragould and staged a glass drug pipe in the vehicle along with a red backpack containing $76,000. The cash was divided into
Former Greene County deputy pleads to stealing money in FBI sting
Former Greene County deputy pleads to stealing money in FBI sting
December 21, 20204:42 pm
Scott Pillow, 56, of Paragould, a former Greene County deputy, has pleaded guilty to stealing $30,000 when the FBI set him up for a sting in a fake drug deal.
From the news release from the U.S. attorney’s office in Little Rock:
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After receiving information that former Lieutenant Pillow might be abusing his role with the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, FBI Special Agents and Task Force Officers conducted a ruse narcotics investigation and sought Pillow’s help with the investigation. On November 4, 2019, FBI parked a rental vehicle in a commercial parking lot in Paragould and staged a glass drug pipe in the vehicle along with a red backpack containing $76,000. The cash was divided into ten bundles of $7,600 each, and investigators recorded the serial numbers.