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HENDERSON â Vance County Sheriff Curtis Brame says the three deputies facing criminal charges that accuse them of conspiring to mount an end run around North Carolinaâs asset-forfeiture laws are suspended pending the resolution of their charges.
But the sheriff also said that while an internal investigation found âviolation of office policy and [a] lack of training,â he also believes that âprotocol was followedâ and âat this time, I do not have any evidence that would warrant the charges brought against them.â
Brameâs comments, issued via an emailed written statement, responded to the booking the day before of his second-in-command, Maj. Steve Staton, and narcotics deputies Mitch Pittman and Purav Patel.
HENDERSON â Prosecutors have secured new indictments in a case involving the Vance County Sheriffâs Office that accuses its second in command and two deputies of conspiring to dodge North Carolina laws on civil asset forfeiture.
A grand jury handed up the indictments of Maj. Stephen OâNeal Staton, Deputy Purav J. Patel and Deputy Mitch Taybronn Pittman on April 14, but they remained sealed under a judgeâs order until Monday.
On Tuesday, all three were booked at the Wake County Jail, according to a Twitter post by managers of that facility. Court documents indicate that all three received unsecured bonds, of $50,000 in Pittmanâs case and $35,00 in Patelâs and Statonâs, that allowed them to go free.