Jack Gillean, former chief of staff at UCA, today dropped appeals of burglary convictions in return for a prosecutor’s agreement not to seek additional penalties for positive drug tests of Gillean, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

Gillean had been ordered arrested after the drug tests. Gillean was sentenced to three years for providing a key that was used to gain access to faculty offices to get copies of tests.

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