See what the prosecutor alleged of Kelly's action while in office.
Roles were reversed for Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn on Monday morning, as he took the witness stand to start the second week of Pat Kelly's racketeering trial.
State prosecutors claim Kelly, the suspended Athens County Sheriff, destroyed county records, issued CCW permits without background checks and stole while in office.
In all, the 64 year old is charged with 25 criminal counts, including 23 felonies.
During Blackburn's testimony, which lasted almost three hours, the county prosecutor claimed Kelly sent seven dump trucks filled with county records to be disposed in a landfill during the spring of 2013.
Blackburn said the county intercepted one truck and found most records from another, but the records from the other five were likely "gone forever."
The county prosecutor also described for jurors confrontations of "uncomfortableness" that had taken place between Blackburn and Kelly during the suspended sheriff's re-election campaign in 2012.
Local editor Emma Ockerman contributed to this article. This is a developing story. Stick with The Post for updates.
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