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What did Scott Jenkins do? Culpeper Sheriff charged alongside 3 Virginia businessmen over bribery allegations

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Mia Horton

Published Dec 31, 2025

Scott Jenkins, the 51-year-old Sheriff of Culpeper, Virginia, has been prosecuted on a few counts of monetary offenses for taking ladies to mishandle his chosen office. He had been supposedly taking hush-money as political race assets from eight individuals in any event, including three eminent finance managers and two spies with the Government Buereau of Examination.

Scott Jenkins purportedly got pay-offs surpassing $72,500 from three money managers – Rick Tariq Rahim, Fredric Gumbinner, and James Metcalf, and something like five others since April 2019, according to court records. In return, he supposedly selected the givers to the place of assistant delegate sheriffs.

According to court archives that structure part of the prosecution, Scott Jenkins has been accused of one count of intrigue, eight counts of government programs pay off, and four counts of legitimate administrations mail and wire extortion.

In return for the pay-offs he got, Jenkins delegated the benefactors to formal places that qualified them for convey firearms and an identification. The powers vested in these people is commensurate to those allowed to policing paid representative sheriffs. Jenkins’ co-plotters were likewise captured on June 29, 2023.

Aside from getting pay-offs, Jenkins is likewise blamed for pressuring and controlling public authorities to support proposition to reestablish the weapon freedoms of Rick Tariq Rahim, one of the co-charged in the extortion. Purportedly, he attempted to utilize his leverage to pressure a Circuit Court judge and representatives in the Ward’s Lawyer’s Office to deal with Rahim’s solicitation.

In January, 2023, the Government Department of Examination seized practically every one of the assets from Jenkin’s records. Court reports give apparently cursing proof of the discussions and financial trades that happened among Jenkins and the bribers. Jenkins didn’t reveal the sums that he purportedly got in pay-offs in his mission finance reports that were submitted to the Virginia Division of Races. Talking about Jenkins’ lead, the arraignment states:

Sherriff Scott Jenkins of Culpeper Virginia has been indicted on 13 federal charges ranging from Obstruction to bribery and faces 165 years in prison for selling sherriff badges and credentials.#CulpeperVirginia#Corruption#BadCops

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Christopher Kavanaugh, the ongoing U.S. Lawyer said something in regards to the arraignment in which he said:

“Scott Jenkins disregarded government regulation as well as abused the confidence and trust put in him by the residents of Culpeper Province by tolerating cash pay-offs in return for helper appointee identifications and different advantages… Our chosen authorities are supposed to maintain law and order, not misuse their power for their very own, monetary benefit” Scott Jenkins and different suspects are at present in government authority and have not disclosed their perspectives on the arraignment as of the hour of composing of this article.