Forty-two-year-old Jason Clark, of Symsonia, filed on Monday. Fifty-two-year-old Gregory Allen Jones, of Mayfield, filed last Thursday.
Clark is a combat veteran, having served with the United States Marine Corps as an infantry platoon sergeant while deployed to Iraq. He's a former Kentucky State Trooper, and has also worked at the Paducah Police Department and the Mayfield Police Department.
For the past eight years, he has worked for the U.S. Department of State, conducting and leading multiple diplomatic security teams in day to day operations, in their continuous efforts of accomplishing alliances and diplomacy in the country of Iraq.
Jones moved to Graves County seven years ago to work on the Fiber to the Home project with one of WK&T’s contractors. Previously, he was a contractor for NASA, and had a short stint with the United States Marshals Service and United States Navy Reserve.
Clark and Jones join four other write-in candidates in the sheriff's race: Chief Deputy Davant Ramage, Robin Holmes, Michael Corey Apperson and Bill Howard “Billy” Harris.
Incumbent Sheriff Dewayne Redmon is the only candidate on the ballot. Redmon recently entered a not guilty plea to charges of official misconduct and first-degree possession of a controlled substance. He was indicted on those charges in August, and is accused of stealing hydrocodone from the sheriff department's drug drop box.
