SPORTS: LOCAL NEWS: Mustangs stampede BCHS honors into Region 3-AAA seniors during title game: Page 9 big night: Page 4 163rd YEAR • No. 14 16 PAGES • 50¢ CLEVELAND, TN 37311 THE CITY WITH SPIRIT TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2017 Fort Hill private BCSO deputy section owner slams sheriff fined by state in letter read for violations by Dan Rawls By LARRY C. BOWERS
[email protected] Adam Beard calls boss The private section of Fort Hill Cemetery, owned by Cleveland’s Joe V. Williams, has ‘dishonest, malicious’ been slapped with a $6,631 civil penalty by the Tennessee Department of Commerce and By BRIAN GRAVES Insurance.
[email protected] The violations and action against the A deputy from the Bradley County Cleveland cemetery were listed in a recent Sheriff’s Office, who was fired for insubor- report from TDCI’s Division of Regulatory dination by the previous sheriff, appeared Boards, which recorded actions taken in before the Bradley County Commission April. Monday to air his grievances against Kevin Walters, communications director Sheriff Eric Watson and offer an apology for the department, said the reason this case “on behalf of the sheriff’s office” to came up in April is that it is a continuation Commissioner Dan Rawls for things for a complaint and ruling against Williams Watson said about the commissioner. from more than a year ago. The letter from BCSO Deputy Adam In spring 2016, an order against Williams Beard was read by Rawls at the close of was entered by Joyce Carter-Ball, an admin- Monday’s voting session.