Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard showed up last year for the sentencing of his convicted deputy Kenneth Achtyl, whom he supported during the deputy's trial. Last month, the sheriff took the rare step of firing a deputy for mistreating a verbally abusive inmate, then lying about it.
As much as the largely absent disciplinary policies in the Erie County Sheriff’s Office are cause for public concern, an unusual event in the Holding Center offers this fall’s sheriff candidates a useful way to clarify how they would run the operation: as Sheriff Timothy B. Howard did last month by firing a deputy for misconduct or as he did in the preceding 15½ years when he tacitly endorsed lies and even criminality?
Footage from the Erie County Correctional Facility shows Corrections Officer Anil Kawal close the hatch on a cell door on the arm of inmate Keshon D. Thorpe following an offensive verbal tirade by Thorpe, who was locked in the cell. See the full story by Matt Spina here.
Sheriff Timothy Howard has signed a statement conceding that his office failed to properly investigate serious incidents in Erie County’s jail…
Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard showed up last year for the sentencing of his convicted deputy Kenneth Achtyl, whom he supported during the deputy's trial. Last month, the sheriff took the rare step of firing a deputy for mistreating a verbally abusive inmate, then lying about it.
