A former Texas judge and prison guard will be heading to the big house himself as an inmate after he was sentenced recently for stealing $133,333 in traffic ticket money from the county that had employed him.

Joseph Charles Boyle, the former justice of the peace for Precinct 2 in Holliday, Texas, was sentenced to two years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on April 11. O’Connor also ordered Boyle to pay back the money that he stole from Archer County, where he sat as a Justice of the Peace.

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