Almost $1 million taxpayer dollars spent on Sheriff’s Office

following the money, finding out how much this investigation so far.. from beginning to right now.. is costing you.. the taxpayers. krdo newschannel 13’s emily allen is on the money trail tonight and joins us live outside the sheriff’s office. emily.. the county sent us its most updated numbers… the county has to cover some of these costs because the alleged crimes were committed on the job. but taxpayers may have a hard time stomaching the cost. nats — money falling almost one million dollars. that’s how much taxpayers are shelling out for the maketa controvser y. 190000 that’s a lot of money. it’s kind of ridiculous actually 185914 the numbers are staggering. $818,000 is a lot of money 183934 i would like money to be spent on something else instead here’s a tally of the costs… 400- thousand dollars on an investigatio n into the allegations. … 10- thousand dollars on attorney fees… 100- thousand dollars in litigation … 320- thousand in settlements. and not all the cases are resolved… so that settlement cost will likely keep growing. 185440 those are very high numbers. those are what families make in a year. what multiple families make in a year. so where does this money come from? the county dips into its risk management fund that’s built into the budget to cover these kinds of costs. 183650 these are just the normal costs of doing business fees. su: we showed people these numbers and asked them what they’d rather see it spent on 183452 roads, schools … easy. 183938 i am married to a teacher so schools, that would be very nice. 185458 i would love to see it go into marketing for our community, our state maybe. because the county doesn’t have a choice… taxpayers will have to pay up… even though they can think of a million other ways to spend this cash. the county paid up to 10- thousand dollars for maketa’s legal fees… he’s represented by pamela mackey… the same attorney that defended kobe bryant. in cs, ea krdo nc13. and we have