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Former South Carolina Sheriff Begins 46-Month Prison Term for Corruption
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2023
by Ashleigh Dye
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2023, page 49
Filed under:
Police Misconduct.
Location:
South Carolina.
by Ashleigh N. Dye
On October 14, 2022, a former South Carolina sheriff reported to the U.S. Penitentiary in Big Sandy, Kentucky, to begin serving a 46-month sentence for fraud and corruption-related charges.
Alex “Big A” Underwood, 59, was the Chester County Sheriff from 2012 until he was suspended by ...
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