(Halls, TN) A
Halls, TN police officer has been arrested by the Tennessee Bureau of
Investigation. Jason Colvin was indicted yesterday by the Lauderdale County
Grand Jury for official misconduct and other charges yesterday.
Colvin was indicted on 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 the TBI, “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 pawn shop in Halls.” Colvin has
been booked into the Lauderdale County Jail and is on unpaid leave from the
police department.