Madison County is in the process of recovering a bulk of the $2.7 million that had been sent to a cyber scammer posing as a legitimate vendor. Last Monday, Madison County Board of Supervisors President Gerald Steen announced that the county was the victim of a cyber scam. The scammer.
An investigation is underway after Madison County was swindled out of nearly $3 million. Madison County Board of Supervisors President Gerald Steen on Monday announced that the county was the victim of a cyber scam. Steen said that the scammer was fraudulently posing as a vendor and had received $2.7.
A week and a half later, we now know who officers took into custody after a body was found inside a Madison County home on Feb. 5. Dawton Gage Whatley, 19, has been charged with murder after officers were called to a residence in the 100th block of Haley Creek.
A Madison attorney serving a 12-day jail sentence for shooting a rifle at a neighbor’s dog in 2018 has since been charged with aggravated assault of a corrections officer and escape after allegedly attacking a female guard as she was serving him breakfast on Friday.