KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Knox County’s former narcotics chief manipulated a credit card and a special cash drug fund to hand out what amounted to thousands of dollars in gifts and to perform favors for friends, colleagues and even a former Knox County sheriff, a newly filed federal plea agreement states.
While not explicitly named, the agreement signed last week by David Henderson and attorney Rob Kurtz refers repeatedly to former Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones, Henderson’s boss in the 2010s.
That in itself is not a surprise because court records after Henderson’s indictment in 2022 referenced unindicted co-conspirators and referenced “the former Knox County sheriff” benefiting from Henderson’s crimes. But the plea agreement is much more specific about what government investigators found…