Following his arrest, a county commissioner from Hardeman County, Tennessee, was charged with 13 charges of theft ranging and running a chop shop.
Records from the sheriff’s office show that Joseph Jenkins was taken into custody on Monday and is being detained on a $50,000 bond at the Hardeman County Jail.
Jenkins is listed as a District 1 commissioner on the building, police enforcement, ambulance, and civil committees on the Hardeman County website.
His court date is scheduled for September 17.
