Sheriff Guilty Of Threatening To Shoot Church Teens

August 24, 2022 Crime, Police

The East Idaho News reports:

Former Bingham County Sheriff Craig Rowland has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault as part of a plea agreement. In exchange, the prosecution will dismiss a felony charge of aggravated battery, and a misdemeanor charge for the exhibition of a firearm.

“In exchange for the plea, the parties have agreed to probation and 10 days of jail to be served during the course of that probation,” Wilkinson said in an email. “These provisions are binding on the court.”

Rowland was charged with felonies for aggravated assault and aggravated battery and a misdemeanor for the exhibition of a weapon in November after he threatened a carful of teens with a gun. The then-sheriff pointed a gun at a vehicle containing seven girls and their church group leader in response to the girls putting a “thankful turkey” on his front door.

The Associated Press reports:

The charges stem from an incident in which he allegedly pointed a gun at his neighbor, Chelsea Cox, who was with a church group of girls when delivering Thanksgiving cards to his home and said “I will f—ing shoot you.”

An affidavit of probable cause says Rowland stopped the vehicle that held the youth group. He allegedly drew a pistol, pulled a woman through the window of the vehicle and threatened her with his gun to her head.

Rowland resigned after the incident, which first resulted in a court order to surrender all his guns. My original December 2021 post on this jerk is here.



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