Former Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold has been sentenced to 50 months in prison.
A sentencing hearing took place Thursday morning at the federal courthouse in Nashville.
A judge sentenced Arnold to 50 months - four years and two months - in prison. He’s already served eight months of that time, meaning he'll serve three years and six months total.
Arnold will be moved to a facility in Memphis, where he's expected to enroll in a mental health program.
He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and extortion after he made money off a company, called JailCigs, that sold e-cigarettes to inmates. Court documents revealed that he pocketed the money from sales personally instead of putting them in the county's general fund.
Arnold has been ordered to pay $52,500 in restitution to the county.
