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In this July 7, 2006 photo, Pickens County Sheriff David Abston speaks with reporters about a jailbreak in Carrollton, Ala. Court records show Abston was arrested Friday, June 14, 2019, and is pleading guilty to fraud and filing a false tax return. He is charged with scamming a food bank and his own church to pocket thousands under a law that let state sheriffs profit from feeding prisoners. (Dusty Compton/The Tuscaloosa News via AP)

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