The Tennessee Bureau of
Investigation arrested a Halls Police Department officer on Tuesday after he
was indicted by the Lauderdale County Grand Jury on Monday.
Jason Colvin, 32, of Halls, Tenn. was charged in the indictments with three counts of official misconduct, one count of theft more than $500 and less than $1,000, one count of accessory after the fact, one count of facilitation of a felony and compounding.
According
to a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation release, the TBI was requested to open
an investigation on Colvin on April 12, 2012, after the Halls Police Department
received a complaint on him. The allegations against Colvin included that while
he was working as an officer for the Halls Police Department, he obtained a
handgun from a person known to be a convicted felon and attempted to sell a
stolen handgun at a pawnshop in Halls.
Colvin
was arrested and booked into the Lauderdale County Jail on Tuesday. He has been
on paid leave from the department, but he has now been placed on unpaid leave.