Prosecutors allege Jenkins accepted a total of $72,500 in campaign cash contributions from at least eight people, including two undercover FBI agents, in exchange for giving them auxiliary deputy ...

A Virginia sheriff is facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges as the US Justice Department claims he handed out deputy sheriff badges in exchange for money to help fund his reelection campaign ...

Part of Jenkins' scheme involved issuing the men Culpeper County Sheriff's Office badges and ID cards, though none of the individuals received the mandatory training for the auxiliary deputy ...

The former Virginia sheriff convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for handing out deputy badges and law enforcement credentials has received a full pardon from President Donald Trump. Trump ...

Benton, chief deputy coroner at that time, proposed making the purchase with money budgeted in 2023 for his office’s janitorial services, which was available because it hadn’t been spent.

Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Howard Jenkins, 51, and three other Virginia men have been charged with a conspiracy to exchange bribes for law enforcement badges and credentials, the US attorney ...