Metts pleads not guilty, gets 100,000 bond

Metts, right, gets $100,000 bond. 

Former Lexington County Sheriff James Metts entered a plea of "not guilty" today in front Federal Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodge. 

Metts was allowed to remain free on a $100,000 bond.

A Metts attorney was a little dismayed at the high amount of the bond. And obviously the judge does not consider Metts a flight risk or dangerous. 

Metts faces a 10-count federal indictment, charging him with taking bribes in exchange for giving special privileges to illegal immigrant. 

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