Welcome to Arrest Stories. A North Texas sheriff faces felony corruption charges after allegedly sexually harassing female employees and threatening to arrest a witness who filed complaints against him. Here's what may have happened.
Sheriff Adam King of Johnson County turned himself in to Texas Rangers on Wednesday, facing a twenty-five thousand dollar bond on felony corruption charges. The indictment stems from a pattern of alleged sexual harassment spanning from February twenty twenty-four through July twenty twenty-five.
According to police reports, King created a hostile work environment for female subordinates through a series of disturbing incidents. The sheriff allegedly told one employee to remove her sweater and stated she would have to disrobe before he would sign any documents. In another incident, he reportedly ordered a female employee to back up while he stared at her feet in silence.
The harassment escalated with increasingly inappropriate comments about employees' physical appearance, weight, clothing, and makeup requirements. King allegedly told female workers they needed to wear makeup to work and made disturbing remarks about their attire, stating "Back in my younger days, you wouldn't want to know what I did to women wearing white pants."
Perhaps most troubling, King allegedly told one employee "If you keep losing weight, you're going to make me do some ungodly things to you." The sheriff reportedly gave preferential treatment to married female employees, taking them to lunch, purchasing jewelry, and granting special office access.
The situation reached a criminal threshold when King allegedly threatened to arrest a female employee who had filed human resources complaints against him. He then attempted to obtain her home address, leading to the retaliation charges.
King, who first won election as sheriff in twenty sixteen and was most recently reelected in twenty twenty-four, now faces serious legal consequences. Officials emphasized that "While Mr. King is entitled to a presumption of innocence, no person is above the law."
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