Southern Sheriff
2019-09-18 01:56:58.885683+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
A Sheriff Allegedly Tried To Have His Deputy Killed To Cover Up A Racist Recording
Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins allegedly told a man "the only way you gonna stop him is kill him."
Sheriff helped plot his own deputy’s killing over ‘racially offensive’ tape, prosecutors say
Wilkins has been sheriff of the small county in northern North Carolina, where the biggest town is home to about 8,400 people, since 2009 and was most recently reelected in 2018. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, who brought the charges, told the News & Observer that Wilkins is still the sheriff.
“Technically,” the prosecutor said, “he can continue to serve if he chooses to until convicted.”