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Dallas County Sheriffâs Office employee arrested for theft
By FOX 4 Staff
DALLAS - A clerical supervisor for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office has been arrested for theft.
Umeka T. Myers is facing an enhanced charge of theft of property over $2,500, but under $30,000. She is out of jail after posting $5,000 bond.
The charge against Myers, who started working for the sheriff’s office in July 1994, was enhanced because she was a public servant.
Few details have been released about the alleged theft, but the sheriff’s office said Myers was arrested after an audit of the vault section showed discrepancies.
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Alongside her deputies, Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown listens during a press conference about the arrest of one of their own, deputy Austin Palmer, 33, during a press conference at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Friday, January 17, 2020. Palmer was booked on charges of assault causing bodily injury and official oppression, Thursday, both are misdemeanors. The Sheriff explained Palmer mistreated a man in custody during a Òprisoner transport. He has since bonded out. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to shatter records in Dallas County
ICU beds at all-time low, Jenkins says; Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton counties add combined 53 deaths Revised to include information on area hospital capacity.
Dallas County on Tuesday reported 1,129 more coronavirus cases, all of them considered new. Sixteen new COVID-19 deaths also were announced.
Meanwhile, the state reported that a record 11,775 Texans were hospitalized with the virus Tuesday.
The latest Dallas County victims included nine Dallas residents: a man in his 30s, two men in their 40s, a man in his 60s, two men and a woman in their 70s, and a man and a woman in their 80s. All had been hospitalized, and all except the woman in her 80s had underlying health conditions.