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Friday, December 26, 2008

Sheriff Medford Doing Federal Time In NC

The former Buncombe County sheriff convicted of taking bribes from gambling machine operators has been assigned to a federal prison in North Carolina.

The Web site of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons shows that Bobby Medford has been assigned to Butner Federal Correctional Complex, about 35 miles north of Raleigh. He is in the section that houses low-security inmates.

Medford was convicted in May after accusations that he accepted more than $300,000 in bribes from illegal gambling operators over a dozen years as sheriff. Two of his captains and two lieutenants also were convicted.

The 63-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Medford had been held in an Irwin County, Ga., as federal officials decided where to send him.

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