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âThe appalling criminal actions of former Lt. Scott Pillow revealed his lack of integrity and greed.â
Targeted in an undercover FBI sting, a former Arkansas sheriffâs lieutenant recently pleaded guilty to stealing more than $30,000 in cash.
After receiving information that Green County
Sheriffâs Lieutenant Allen Scott Pillow might be abusing his authority, FBI
agents conducted a ruse narcotics investigation and sought Lt. Pillowâs help
with the investigation. On November 4, 2019, FBI agents asked Pillow to search
a vehicle parked on the Loweâs parking lot in Paragould, Arkansas.
According to the complaint, the agents
told Pillow that they were Tennessee
Former Greene County sheriffâs lieutenant pleads guilty to stealing FBI money
Former Greene County Sheriffâs Lieutenant pleads guilty to stealing FBI money By Region 8 Newsdesk | December 21, 2020 at 4:22 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 5:49 AM
GREENE COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - A former Greene County sheriffâs lieutenant arrested in 2019 pleaded guilty to stealing over $30,000 of FBI money.
According to a media release Monday from Cody Hiland, Office of the United States Attorney Eastern District of Arkansas, Scott Pillow pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government funds.
The investigation began in 2019 after investigators received information that Pillow was abusing his role with the Greene County Sheriffâs Office.
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.