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Former NAACP Official Fails To Show Up To Serve Jail Time

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published October 24, 2013 at 12:33 PM EDT

Longtime Dayton civil-rights activist Reverend Raleigh Trammell has violated a judge's order to begin serving his jail sentence. Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies say Trammell is supposed to begin serving an 18-month sentence this week.Trammell's attorneys say he's too sick to serve his sentence. The former Dayton NAACP leader was convicted of stealing money from a county-funded meal program.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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