KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind (WOWO):Kosciusko County Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine could spend up to 35 1/2 years in jail for allegedly accepting thousands of dollars from a Kosciusko County Jail inmate and a visitor over a few years.
Rovenstine has been indicted on 10 charges, including three charges of bribery, one for intimidation, one for assisting a criminal and five counts for official misconduct, according to court documents filed in Kosciusko County Circuit Court.
Rovenstine also threatened at least one officer who was investigating Bronson’s behavior while he was incarcerated, according to court documents.
He is accused of accepting $40,000 in bribe money for special accommodations for an inmate in Kosciusko County jail, Kevin Bronson, and his visitor, Mark Soto. Some of those accommodations include unrecorded phone calls, according to our sister station 95.3 MNC.
Bronson was also indicted. He faces three charges of corrupt business influence and seven counts of intimidation. Soto was also charged with three counts of corrupt business influence and three counts of intimidation.
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