Top cop uses seized bike for personal transportation




Most law enforcement officials get around town in a Dodge Charger or similar car. Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe had a ride that carried a lot more chrome.

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Ashe sometimes used a 2003 model Harley-Davidson motorcycle seized in a drug raid to get to and from work in the summer, the sheriff acknowledged last week. He kept the bike in his basement during the winter.

The Sheriff's Office got the motorcycle on May 5, 2008, from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives after a federal judge ordered that it be forfeited.
The bike had belonged to a Jackson County resident who pleaded guilty in 2006 to selling methamphetamine.

The investigation was a joint operation between ATF and the Sheriff's Office.

Deputies put 145 hours into the case, although they didn't offer “indispensable assistance” or incur any special expense, according to federal form DAG-71 that the Sheriff's Office filed to get the bike.



Source: Top cop uses seized bike for personal transportation

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