A former police officer in Alabama who pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and burglary has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports 51-year-old Leon Todd Townson was sentenced Aug. 13. The former U.S. Marine is one of two former Prattville Police Department lieutenants charged with breaking into a home in 2015. The other lieutenant, 48-year-old John Wayne McDaniel, is set to be sentenced Friday.
Townson also was charged in 2017 with defrauding an insurance agency by filing a claim containing false information. The fraudulent claim prompted the agency to award Townson more than $190,000. He resigned from the police department in 2005 before pleading guilty to trying to sell a modified rifle seized by the department’s drug unit.
Topics Fraud Law Enforcement Alabama
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