After first winning an election in 2006, Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn put his political consultant on the district attorney’s payroll at $500 a month.

At the time of the hiring, the new prosecutor still owed the consultant’s company a $10,000 bonus for the successful campaign, records show.

Mashburn also gave the consultant, Chad David Alexander, a badge.

The questionable arrangement has surfaced because Alexander still had the badge on him when he was arrested May 13 in Oklahoma City on drug complaints, court records show.