ONLY ONLINE: Former Jackson County Clerk, acquitted of murder in 2002, arrested in Corbin on drug charge

Former Jackson County Clerk Jerry Dean who remains in the Whitley County Detention Center after he was arrested and charged for possession of a controlled substance 1st Oxycodone by Corbin Police Department.

According to a report from Col. David Maiden, his department received a 911 complaint about 11:05 a.m. Tuesday about a parked vehicle at the Corbin Burger King with two men arguing inside the vehicle. There was also a report they had illegal drugs on them.

When Maiden responded to the complaint he found Dean, 69, of Tyner and three other individuals inside. When he asked for consent to search, they complied. Maiden found the Oxycodone on Dean.

Maiden said Dean first told him he found it on the ground and didn’t know what it was. Dean later told the officer he was holding it for one of the occupants in the vehicle.

During the search of the Enterprise Rental Vehicle, which was rented in Dean’s name they found several prescriptions made out to different names from a Florida Pain Clinic. Maiden said the occupants in Dean’s vehicle included one male and two females and they were not charged at this time.

Dean was charged with murder, of Audrey Marcum a former employee of his while he was serving as Jackson County Clerk in 2001, who had filed a multi-million dollar sexual harassment suit against him.

Marcum was found shot to death near her home.

He was indicted. However, when court officials were unable to seat a jury in Jackson County, the case was moved to neighboring Madison County.

The case went to trial in 2002 and Dean was found not guilty of the murder.

He ran for re-election soon after the trial but was defeated by challenger Donald Moore.

He still resides in Jackson County.