Mariposa County DA abruptly resigns after closed meeting with Board of Supervisors after Sheriff provided text messages about alleged meth sales from McAfee's former client and defendant he prosecuted

 

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Mike McAfee, the District Attorney of Mariposa County,  abruptly resigned on August 11 after a closed meeting by the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors last Monday. 

This was after the Mariposa Gazette gave Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese more than 30 text exchanges provided by Gary Schisnewski, a criminal with a lengthy criminal history, who had been prosecuted and represented in separate cases by McAfee. The texts allegedly show McAfee buying methamphetamine several times from Schisnewski.

McAfee has not been charged but the California Attorney General is investigating.