President Trump pardoned a Virginia sheriff convicted of bribery on Monday, the latest instance of Trump using his presidential pardon power to help his supporters.

Scott Jenkins, 53, was the sheriff of Culpeper County until 2023, when he was charged with accepting more than $75,000 in bribes to hand out badges and guns to local businessmen as volunteer deputy sheriffs.

Jenkins was scheduled to begin serving a 10-year prison sentence on Tuesday. Instead, Trump announced the pardon and criticized former President Biden’s administration.

Culpeper County, which sits about 50 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., first elected Jenkins as sheriff in 2011, a position he maintained until his electoral defeat in 2023. The feds said that during Jenkins’ tenure, he solicited and accepted bribes to name at least eight people as volunteer deputies.

Two undercover FBI agents paid Jenkins a total of $15,000 to receive badges and guns, giving them police powers in the 55,000-person county even though they provided no evidence of law enforcement training, only cash.

Jenkins has been an outspoken supporter of Trump for many years. He made national headlines in 2019 when he promised to deputize every person in Culpeper County if the Virginia legislature passed gun control laws. Following his conviction, Jenkins appealed to Trump and mentioned that headline-grabbing promise.

Trump has pardoned thousands of supporters, including all 1,500 people accused in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, since taking office in January.