Kentucky State Police Arrest Oak Grove City Payroll Clerk After Lengthy Investigation into Abuse of Public Trust

OAK GROVE, Ky. (April 14, 2025)- Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 2 received information that led to the investigation into a payroll employee with the City of Oak Grove. KSP arrested Hailey A. Bamford, 38, of Fort Campbell Ky.

During the investigation, KSP detectives discovered Hailey A. Bamford, the city’s payroll accountant and human resource employee, had on multiple occasions falsified her time entry and altered her time sheets since May 2022. With the assistance of the KSP Special Investigations Auditor, an audit revealed numerous occasions of false entries, altering, deletion, and destruction of records related to business payroll for the City of Oak Grove. The investigation revealed that from May 2022 through October 2023, Bamford falsified business records to obtain city taxpayer money via theft of time for a minimum of $6,208.75.

On April 11, 2025, the Christian County Grand Jury returned a True Bill for the following charges:

1 count of Abuse of Public Trust less than 10,000

14 counts of Tampering with Public Records

On April 14, 2025, Indictment Warrant of Arrest was issued for Bamford on the above charges. Bamford was arrested at Oak Grove City Hall and lodged in the Christian County Detention Center.

KSP Post 2 Detective Jacob Stephens and Drug Enforcement Special Investigation East Auditor Billianne Withers conducted the investigation.  

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