NASHVILLE- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation today arrested the currently elected Jackson County Clerk today after she was indicted by the Jackson County grand jury earlier this week.

Mary Jo Matthews, 22, of Gainesboro, Tenn. was indicted on one count of official misconduct and one count of theft over $1,000. Between December 2011 and April 2013, Matthews took money from the cash receipts drawer several times. In one week’s time in April 2013, Matthews stole $1,200 and shortly after when confronted with an auditor from the Comptroller’s office, she hid the deposit in an effort to conceal the missing money. She then returned to the office to retrieve the hidden the deposit and replace the missing money leaving instructions for another clerk in the office to make the deposit the next morning in an effort to hide the discrepancy from the auditor. The 15th Judicial District Attorney General’s office requested TBI to investigate the theft in April of 2013.

Matthews was booked into the Jackson County Jail on $2,000 bond.

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