(CNN) – President Donald Trump pardoned a former Virginia sheriff Monday just hours before the sheriff was supposed to report to prison.

Former Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in prison for accepting $75,000 in bribes and padding his sheriff’s department with untrained, wealthy Virginia businessmen.

“You’re scared. Honestly, you’re scared,” Jenkins said of his sentencing. “You may have been a cop all your life but you’re sitting here going, ‘They want to put me in prison for life.’”

Now, instead of going to prison, Jenkins is going free thanks to President Trump.

“This sheriff is a victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice, and doesn’t deserve to spend a single day in jail,” the president said. “(He and family) have been dragged through hell.”

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