A Report Questions Spending By A Former Carter County Top Cop. Two Years After Former Sheriff Chris Mathes Was Voted Out Of Office, A Finalized Government Report Raises Questions About Several Decisions Made Before Leaving Office. The Report. Officially Closed Last Month By The Carter County Financial Management Committee, Mentions An Unauthorized Bonus To Mathes’ Secretary, A Push To Buy Marked Up E-Cigarettes To Sell At The Jail, And A 24-Hundred Dollar Payment To A Businessman To Put Up A Single Anti-Drug Poster Inside His Business. A Tbi Probe Connected To Mathes Did Not Result In Criminal Charges.