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Bank Repossess Sheriff's Patrol Cars
Produced by Rob Wildeboer on Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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The Alexander County Sheriff's department at the Southern tip of Illinois is trying to round up some vehicles, as most of the department's patrol cars were repossessed earlier this week.
Sheriff David Barkett surrendered five Crown Victoria's emblazoned with the Sheriff's seal to First National Bank in Cairo on Tuesday of this week. The bank won't comment on the cars except to say customers in Illinois have 21 days to try and reclaim them.
Barkett was left with only one county owned vehicle though a volunteer spokesman for the Sheriff says the state has been able to provide a 2004, Ford SUV to the department and he's hoping they'll be able to provide additional cars. And the spokesman says the department will try to figure out if there's a way to get their old patrol cars back. He says they took the lights off the roofs before turning the cars over to the bank.
Sheriff Barkett recently laid off 11 employees, three quarters of his workforce, because of budget problems.
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