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Henderson Co. Justice of the Peace clerk arrested during theft investigation

Dana Lynne Work, 51, is charged with abuse of official capacity.
Credit: Henderson County Jail
Dana Work, 51

ATHENS, Texas — A clerk with the Justice of the Peace Precinct 4 in Henderson County. 

According to the Henderson County jail records website, Dana Lynne Work, 51, was booked into the jail Monday on charges of abuse of official capacity, a felony charge. She posted the $8,500 bond and was released later that day. 

Sheriff Botie Hillhouse told the Athens Daily Review that Work had been arrested as a part of a theft investigation. 

Sheriff Hillhouse told the newspaper the investigation is ongoing.

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