Claiborne County Tennessee Sheriff David Ray will be placed on diversion and perform community service as part of a plea deal on charges of sexual assault and statutory rape. The Knoxville News Sentinel is reporting that a judge accepted the deal, which will drop the two sexual assault charges with the understanding that they could be brought again. The two rape charges will be dismissed if Ray completes the two-year diversion program. Ray, who was elected a year ago, was accused in two incidents with the same girl on two separate deer hunting trips. He has denied having sexual contact with the girl. Ray is a former state trooper and TBI agent and was elected a general sessions judge in 1982 even though he didn’t have a law license. In 1986, while still a judge, Ray was acquitted on federal charges of taking payoffs to allow businesses to have poker machines.