Case sealed in arrest of South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack

[Nevilledog]

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Jeremy Fugleberg
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So apparently:
- South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack was arrested, then released from jail during the first week of the legislative session
- We're just finding out about it
- We don't know what happened
- The case remains under seal

Case sealed in arrest of South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Gary Cammack of Union Center serves District 29 which includes Butte, Meade, and Pennington Counties. He was elected Senate Majority Leader in 2021.
keloland.com
5:14 PM · Oct 12, 2021

https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/case-sealed-in-arrest-of-south-dakota-senate-majority-leader-gary-cammack/

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Gary Cammack of Union Center serves District 29 which includes Butte, Meade, and Pennington Counties. He was elected Senate Majority Leader in 2021.

According to a state website, he was released from jail just a week into the 2020 legislative session on January 19th. The Meade County Clerk of Court’s office tells KELOLAND News the case is sealed and it would take a judge’s order to unseal it. So, it is unclear exactly where he was arrested, why he was arrested, and what time of day it happened.

We reached out to the prosecutor in the case. Alex Weiss is a Deputy State’s Attorney for Pennington County, she tells us because the case is sealed she cannot comment on it. She does say sealing a case is not uncommon in a suspended imposition of sentence and that once sealed, someone would have to petition the courts to unseal it. In other words, it would take a judge’s order.

The State Attorney General’s office says they have not been consulted on the case, and it would stay in the hands of the local State’s Attorney unless they requested assistance for conflict of interest or some other reason.

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[tanyev]

1. Well then. We'll just have to let the internet speculate, Clue style.

Majority Leader Cammack in the brothel with a bullwhip.

[suegeo]

2. Probably related to pleading down from DUI ...

[link:https://dakotafreepress.com/2021/10/05/sd-senate-majority-leader-on-probation-after-pleading-down-from-dui-charge/|]

When the Legislature convenes for its two Special Sessions in November, expect Senate Majority Leader Gary Lynn Cammack (R-29/Union Center) to be driving extra carefully. According to South Dakota court records, he’s on probation until after Christmas for careless driving, a misdemeanor charge he pled down to on June 29 after being arrested for driving under the influence on January 18, 2020:

Also a commenter in the above link said Cammack will be inducted into the SD Halll of Fame
[link:https://www.sdhalloffame.org/news/2021-south-dakota-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced|]

South Dakota is a mafia state.

[suegeo]

3. Kick, this guy's son probably committed fraud

[link:https://kelo.com/2021/10/11/242742/|]

UNION CENTER, S.D. (KELO.com) — A South Dakota News Watch investigation has raised questions about whether a taxidermy business owned by the son of a state senator is operated from Texas even though application materials submitted by the son, who received more than $1 million in coronavirus grants and loans, list an address in Union Center, S.D.

Chris Cammack, son of South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack, received more than $700,000 in state coronavirus relief grants and more than $300,000 in forgivable federal loans for the Union Center business. State program rules say the business must be physically located in South Dakota to be eligible, and federal rules say the PPP money must protect jobs at the business that applied