A county dispatcher was fired last year after he was accused of running his private auction business out of the sheriff’s office in the Greene County Law Enforcement Center. (Photo via Google Earth) A Greene County police dispatcher was justifiably fired last year for the “brazen conversion of county taxpayer resources to personal gain,” an Iowa judge has ruled. Newly released state records indicate Matthew J. Roberts was fired last September from the Greene County Sheriff’s Department after it was alleged he had been using county staff, computers and other equipment to run his private auction business from the front counter of the Greene County Law Enforcement Center. The records show Roberts was employed by the sheriff’s department as a full-time dispatcher from 2010 until September 2022. He was tasked with answering 911 emergency calls, dispatching law enforcement and emergency medical personnel, and handling warrant information for the sheriff and the Jefferson Police Department. Last May, Roberts was regularly working the overnight shift, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., when Sheriff Jack Williams grew concerned over the high printing expense associated with certain employees who appeared to be using the county’s equipment for personal business. At the time, Roberts […]
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