ST. LOUIS - While threatening to cut essential services, the Sheriff’s Office made a deal for a luxury buy in silence.

It’s a brand-new Chevy Tahoe the St. Louis Sheriff’s Office has avoided talking about.

FOX 2 found it parked in the city lot on Laclede after obtaining the Sheriff’s Office buyer’s order saying it costs $52,773.

This discovery comes after Sheriff Alfred Montgomery had threatened to stop transporting inmates to the hospital because of money problems.

On Monday, Alderwoman Daniela Valazquez told the Sheriff, “We’re in a budget hearing because your department doesn’t have enough money to--you’re in the red.”

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The Sheriff often blamed the media, at one point saying, “We can’t go by news sources. Their job

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