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Tue Oct 20, 2015, 11:13 PM Oct 2015

Hearne City Council votes to rehire recently indicted former city manager

HEARNE -- About a week after Pee Wee Drake was indicted by a Robertson County grand jury, the Hearne City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday to rehire him as city manager.

Councilwoman Shirley Harris and Councilman Emmett Aguirre voted against Drake's reinstatement.

Last week, Drake was indicted after the Robertson County District Attorney’s office presented a case to a grand jury Oct. 13 regarding the payment of a city employee who is in a substance abuse punishment facility. In September, the Hearne City Council voted 3-2 to “ratify the action taken by the city manager” to pay Natividad Alex Rodriguez Jr., who was indicted on a felony charge of driving while intoxicated in 2012. He was arrested again in January after his probation was revoked.

Robertson County District Attorney Coty Siegert told The Eagle last week that the case regarding Drake presented to the grand jury is part of an ongoing investigation into misapplication of city funds in Hearne.

http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/hearne-city-council-votes-to-rehire-recently-indicted-former-city/article_49521a0c-778f-11e5-90c4-5fbda12827cf.html

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