A grand jury has indicted Todd County, Kentucky, Sheriff Tracy White on charges of menacing and harassment following a heated confrontation captured on video. The incident involved Adam Weatherford of Lewisburg, Kentucky, who alleges that White threatened him at his doorstep.
The investigation, originally handled by the Logan County Attorney, was transferred to Ohio County Attorney Justin Keown, who served as the special prosecutor in the case. While Sheriff White now faces these charges, Weatherford expressed dissatisfaction with the outcome, stating that the charges do not reflect the severity of the incident. He believes White should have been indicted for more serious offenses, such as assault or trespassing.
“It seems like a slap on nothing to me—maybe just a little fine—but it’s just a slap in the face really, you know,” Weatherford said.
He also questioned White’s fitness for the role of sheriff. “Absolutely not. I mean, if he’s the one that’s supposed to be enforcing the law of the land and he doesn’t know the law of the land, I mean it doesn’t seem like a good fit there,” he added.
The case has sparked local debate over accountability and leadership within the sheriff’s department.
In October 2024, Vem Miller, a resident of Nevada, filed a lawsuit against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco after being arrested outside a Trump rally. Miller claims that Bianco has created “a false narrative against Miller” by suggesting he intended to assassinate former President Donald Trump, whom Miller asserts he supports completely.
Miller was taken into custody for allegedly possessing a counterfeit pass to the rally, which he denies, along with multiple illegal, loaded firearms in his vehicle. Following the arrest, Sheriff Bianco suggested that his deputies had probably thwarted another assassination attempt on Trump. “I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt,” Bianco stated. “I truly do believe that we prevented another assassination attempt.”
In his legal filing, Miller argues that Bianco aimed to craft a story that would present him as a “heroic” sheriff who had protected Trump from a potential assassination attempt. Miller also claims that Bianco continued to make false claims about him, despite being informed by the Secret Service and the FBI that they did not consider Miller to be a threat.
“Even after being notified by both United States Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation that they did not believe Miller was a threat and declined to interview him, Defendant Bianco continued to make preposterous allegations against Miller, holding press conferences perpetuating his delusional and false narrative,” the lawsuit states.
