EL PASO COUNTY, CO – Another court appearance this afternoon for former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa.
He’ll appear with former Under Sheriff Paula Presley and former Commander Juan San Agustin, whose attorneys are asking for an indictment to be thrown out. The three are charged with extortion, witness tampering and false imprisonment. They’re accused coercing a domestic violence victim to recant her story to protect a deputy she claimed had punched her.
The Gazette reports, Maketa is also believed to have threatened to end a $5.2 million contract with the county’s jail health care provider unless the company terminated an employee who had refused to run for Presley’s sheriff campaign in 2013.
