SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (WAVE) - Former Scott County Sheriff Kenneth Hughbanks will not serve prison time after pleading guilty to tax evasion, but he will spend the next 908 days on probation and repay the unpaid taxes at the center of his crime.

Hughbanks was part of the first audit that launched the Jamey Noel investigation , receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from Clark County’s jail fund. But that wasn’t the crime that now labels him a felon.

“It came about through the Jamey Noel investigation that this was uncovered, but this has nothing to do with the Jamey Noel investigation,” said Special Prosecutor Ric Hertel.

Hertel said Hughbanks cooperated with state police as part of the Jamey Noel investigation. But it was their search through his records that revealed the tax fraud on

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