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Board approves sheriff's request to keep proceeds from evidence sales to buy training ammunition
Summary
Appling County commissioners passed a resolution allowing the sheriff's office to retain $4,774 from sold evidence to purchase ammunition for officer training; the board approved the resolution unanimously.
Appling County commissioners formalized a previously discussed arrangement allowing the Sheriff's Office to retain proceeds from sold items collected as evidence and use those funds for department training ammunition.
Sheriff Mark Melton told the board his department had sold items from the evidence locker that could not be returned due to case-related reasons and that the department collected $4,774 from those sales. The sheriff had previously asked to retain the proceeds rather than remit them to the commissioners' office so the money could be used to buy ammunition for officer firearms training. The board had approved the request at a prior meeting and signed a formal resolution Jan. 9 authorizing the arrangement.
Commissioner Theodore Wilkerson moved to adopt the resolution; Commissioner Doug Harris seconded and the board voted unanimously to approve it. The meeting record does not specify procedural controls for how the sheriff will document or report the use of the funds beyond the resolution itself.
