Culp enters plea in felony case

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Warren Charles Culp, formerly a finance consultant and finance director in the Jefferson County Clerk of Court Office, entered an open plea before Second Circuit Court Judge Stephen Everett in Leon County on Monday morning, Dec. 11. Culp, 52, is charged with organized scheme to defraud and grand theft. As part of the open plea, sentencing was deferred, and a condition imposed that he testify against his two codefendants. The two are Kirk Reams, formerly Jefferson County clerk of court, and Justin Tyler McNeill, formerly a deputy clerk and the human resources director in the clerk’s office, each of whom is likewise charged with organized scheme to de