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By Jillian Ogawa
jogawa@herald-leader.com
A Bourbon County grand jury has indicted the Bourbon County jailer and his deputy on a number of charges, including some stemming from allegations that staffers tampered with documents related to the death of an inmate.
Jailer Tony Horn has been charged with two counts of tampering with public records, a class D felony, and two counts of first-degree official misconduct, a class A misdemeanor. Chief Deputy Jailer Sandy Dotson has been charged with two counts of tampering with physical evidence, a class D felony, and one count of official misconduct.
Tuesday’s indictments come nearly a month after state police executed a search warrant at the jail.
At the time, police said they were investigating narcotics “improperly stored or held”; reports that inmates had a cell phone and were “making inappropriate phone calls while on work release”; and the circumstances surrounding the death of Daniel Trimble, an inmate who committed suicide in February.
The indictment says Horn ordered the destruction of e-mails after Trimble’s death with “the intent to impair the e-mails’ availability for use in the official proceeding.”
Horn faxed a fabricated document to the Department of Corrections in February “believing that an official proceeding was pending,” according to the indictment.
It also says that on April 27 Horn did not investigate or report to the Department of Corrections when he was told of the disappearance of 30 methadone pills. And, on July 16, Horn allowed an inmate who was charged with first-degree robbery to be on work release without a court order.
Dotson is accused of ordering a deputy jailer to create a false observation call record document after the death of an inmate in February. She is also accused of concealing a file related to the death investigation. Dotson was also failing to investigate or report the disappearance of methadone pills.
Neither Dotson nor Horn could be reached for comment.
A supervisor at the jail said Dotson has been on vacation for the past week. Horn was not at the jail.
Their employment status was unclear.
Horn and Dotson are scheduled to appear in Bourbon Circuit Court at 1 p.m. Oct. 14.
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