Missouri sheriff, subordinate indicted on multiple felonies
Source: Associated Press
Heather Hollingsworth, The Associated Press
Updated 5:00 pm CDT, Thursday, July 19, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A southern Missouri sheriff and a subordinate with whom he was having a romantic relationship have been indicted on multiple felonies following a year in which more than 40 sheriff's office employees were fired or quit.
The indictment returned Wednesday charges Texas County Sheriff James Sigman and Lt. Deputy Jennifer Tomaszewski with assault, robbery, child endangerment, unlawful use of a weapon, harassment and two misdemeanors. No attorneys are listed for them in online court records.
Sigman was elected in 2012 and remains in office, although the coroner is leading the department while Sigman is jailed in Greene County. His bond is set at $500,000. Special prosecutor Don Trotter said Tomaszewski has been released on bond.
A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper wrote that Tomaszewski hit a man with the mental capacity of a 9-year-old in the face with her elbows after he was rendered unconscious, possibly by a "choke hold." A corrections officer told investigators that Tomaszewski said she was "trying to bust his eardrum out." And a deputy told investigators, "If we hadn't been there, they would have killed that boy. He was completely unconscious and his lips were turning blue," according to the probable cause statement. The statement said Sigman was present during the incident and that reports about what happened were removed from the mentally disabled inmate's file.
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Texas County Sheriff James Sigman and Lt. Jennifer H. Tomaszewki
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