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Hall jailer arraigned on bribery, smuggling charges
Austin-Herring
Austin Herring
A Hall County jailer has been arraigned on federal charges that he accepted bribes and smuggled contraband into the jail. Austin Herring, 19, of Gainesville on multiple occasions “delivered what he believed to be illegal drugs to an inmate in exchange for financial profit,” according to a news release from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office. Herring had been employed with the sheriff’s office since November and was fired Friday.