The man arrested on drug charges moments before a shootout at Tom Brown park Thursday night was denied bond during his first appearance in court Saturday.
Federal court records show Lee was sentenced to seven years in prison, but released early in June 2021, after a judge granted him compassionate release.
The GBI said they began on May 11 to look into “questionable purchases from a financial account specific to the Cairo Fire Department” that Schafer allegedly made.
“These are poor people. These are people that live on fixed income,” Burke said. “It was affordable when we got there. And then, all of a sudden, there was no way a person that lives on Social Security could live in the neighborhood.”