ST. LOUIS — The new city sheriff, besieged by controversy and budget problems, is once again drawing scrutiny over his office's purchases. This time it's a new SUV.

Sheriff Alfred Montgomery, whose predecessor drove a 2018 Chevrolet Impala, is getting a 2025 Chevrolet Tahoe.

Tahoes start at roughly $60,000 — about $23,000 more than a baseline Impala would have cost new — putting them on the higher end of Chevy's lineup. They sport V-8 engines, an array of modern technology and an endorsement from Car and Driver as a "behemoth with plenty of room for hauling people and cargo."

It's also the latest mark against Montgomery for officials already concerned by the controversy and spending issues in the office, which is on track to overspend its budget by hundreds of thousands of dollars this

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