A Montgomery County jury on Friday convicted former state Rep. Will Dismukes of theft.

In 2020, Dismukes was arrested and charged in connection with a theft following a complaint from the owners of Weiss Flooring, his former employer, about the alleged theft of a large sum of money by an employee. Theft in the first degree involves money or property valued at $2,500 or more.

On Friday, the jury convicted Dismukes on first-degree theft of property, Montgomery County District Attorney Darryl Bailey told WSFA.

Bailey could not immediately be reached by AL.com to confirm the verdict, which was not yet in online court records as of Friday afternoon.

Dismukes, a resident of Prattville who was elected to the House in 2018, has had a tumultuous tenure in office.

The 32-year-old Republican drew national attention in 2020 when he posted an image on Facebook attending a birthday celebration for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Democratic lawmakers called on him to resign over the photos, his support of Confederate monuments and service as chaplain of the Prattville Dragoons, a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

He also stepped down as pastor of a Baptist church after the Forrest controversy.

Dismukes gave the invocation at the party held in July 2020 at Fort Dixie in Selma, an event that coincided with ceremonies honoring the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, an Alabama native and longtime Georgia congressman who was a leader in the civil rights movement and was badly beaten at the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma in 1965.

Dismukes sought re-election to his Alabama House seat representing District 88, where he lost in the GOP primary to former Prattville City President Jerry Starnes in May 2022.