Montgomery, Al.
Charges have been dismissed against the five Bullock County commissioners arrested last May on bid law violations.
The Alabama Attorney General's Office filed the motion to dismiss after all five commissioners were indicted on charges of improperly purchasing food for jail inmates.
Commission Chairman Ronald Wynord Smith, 56; and Commissioners John Livingston Adams, 43; Dock McGowan, 82; Alonza Ellis Jr., 45; and James McArthur Perry, 64, were all arrested in mid-May.
Alabama's Attorney General Luther Strange said the Examiners of Public Accounts found the commission spent at least $61,000 for supplies and $24,000 for food in fiscal 2009 without going through the competitive bid process.
A grand jury indicted each commissioner on one count of intentionally, knowingly or recklessly spending an amount greater than $15,000 for inmate food at the Bullock County Jail without entering seeking competitive, sealed bids. Smith was additionally charged with failure, as the head of a governmental agency, to report a possible ethics law violation.
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