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    Official Misconduct Conviction Boots Indiana FD Trustee

    Sept. 1, 2009
    Lawrence Township Trustee Mike Hobbs will be removed from office after his conviction Monday.

    INDIANAPOLIS --

    Lawrence Township Trustee Mike Hobbs will be removed from office after he was convicted Monday of official misconduct.

    Hobbs received a suspended sentence and will have to perform 80 hours of community service. He pleaded guilty to using a $500 Castleton Volunteer Fire Department check to pay his rent in 2007.

    Hobbs had told the fire department that the check was going to be used for a charitable contribution.

    Hobbs, who was elected in 2006, was almost immediately in hot water. He was charged with drunken driving earlier in 2007 before the official misconduct case.

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