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POLK COUNTY \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, five Polk County inmates and a woman have been charged in connection to the exploitation and assault of a disabled inmate.<\/p>\nPOLK COUNTY \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, five Polk County inmates and a woman have been charged in connection to the exploitation and assault of a disabled inmate.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 11 the jail captain alerted county narcotic detectives of an alleged exploitation and physical assault of a disabled inmate by a group of inmates. Following an investigation, officials issued 14 felony warrants for six individuals after it was concluded they conspired to manipulate and financially exploit the disabled inmate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe inmates forced the victim to release personal property, including his debit card linked to his Supplemental Security Income and disability funds, to an outside accomplice\u2014one of the inmates\u2019 girlfriends\u2014who was not incarcerated,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u201cThis woman then drained the account, using the funds to make unauthorized purchases for herself and to place money into the commissary accounts of several inmates within the jail.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victim was reportedly coerced into providing his PIN for his commissary account, as part of a larger scheme to control the victim\u2019s funds. Six people have since been charged in connection to the investigation:<\/p>\n
Michael Allen Riggins<\/p>\n
Injury to child\/elderly\/disabled
\n Exploitation of child\/elderly\/disabled
\n Engaging in organized criminal activity<\/p>\n
David Clough<\/p>\n
Injury to child\/elderly\/disabled
\n Exploitation of child\/elderly\/disabled
\n Engaging in organized criminal activity<\/p>\n
Blake McCreight<\/p>\n
Injury to child\/elderly\/disabled
\n Exploitation of child\/elderly\/disabled
\n Engaging in organized criminal activity<\/p>\n
Trevon Mallard<\/p>\n
Exploitation of child\/elderly\/disabled
\n Engaging in organized criminal activity<\/p>\n
Kenneth Lamar Lynch<\/p>\n
Engaging in organized criminal activity<\/p>\n
Carrie Jo Wilson<\/p>\n
Exploitation of child\/elderly\/disabled (Felony 3)
\n Engaging in organized criminal activity<\/p>\n
The investigation is currently ongoing and Polk County officials expect additional charges as more information is uncovered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
POLK COUNTY \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, five Polk County inmates and a woman have been charged in connection to the exploitation and assault of a disabled inmate. On Nov. 11 the jail captain alerted county narcotic detectives of an alleged exploitation and physical assault of a disabled inmate by a group of … Continue reading Disabled inmate reportedly abused, financially exploited<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1374168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-05_033739-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:49:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/12\/2024-12-05_033739-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374172,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374166\/revisions\/1374172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}