The indictment and an earlier sworn statement by an FBI agent say the sheriff tried to get federal agents to stop investigating a drug dealer who had provided the sheriff with methamphetamine.
Hot Spring County, Arkansas, Sheriff Scott Finkbeiner has stepped down from all law enforcement duties pending his trial on charges related to interfering with an FBI investigation.
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About a week after being arrested by the FBI and charged with obstruction of justice, we're now hearing from the Hot Spring County sheriff about the federal case.
Two Hot Spring County deputies were arrested Wednesday after a man who had been at the county jail said that they beat and pepper-sprayed him before leaving him on the side of the highway, a news release from the Saline County sheriff’s office stated.