Ex-chairman of civil rights group indicted in Ohio

January 12, 2011 at 8:23p.m.

CINCINNATI (AP) — The former national chairman of an Atlanta-based civil rights organization was indicted today in Ohio on 51 charges that include grand theft, forgery and tampering with government records.

The Rev. Raleigh Trammell, 73, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury in Dayton, where he lives and also headed a local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Trammell was indicted on one count of grand theft and 25 counts each of forgery and tampering with government records.

The alleged crimes occurred from 2005 to 2010 and involve the local chapter's meal-delivery program. The charges involve meals that the county paid Trammell for and that were not delivered, according to prosecutor's spokesman Greg Flannagan.