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Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith, 41, was indicted on six misdemeanors in state court, accused of hiring one deputy, four armed school resource officers and one jailer who allegedly didn’t have state certification or training, according to court documents made public on Monday.Both the deputy and some school resource officers were issued department patrol cars, badges and firearms, according to the indictment.

for the death of Tony Mitchell, a 33-year-old mentally ill man who died of sepsis and hypothermia after being held in the local jail in 2023.for Walker County have pled guilty or been indicted on federal charges related to Mitchell’s death. Smith, who was first elected sheriff in 2018, has beenfiled by Mitchell’s family.

At least one of the officers mentioned in Smith’s indictment previously had his certification suspended in Arizona after he admitted to putting a gun to a woman’s head during a traffic stop, according to sworn testimony during a civil service board meeting last month.The deputy was hired in late June as a provisional officer, which meant he wasn’t allowed to execute arrests or patrol alone until he completed his state training under state law. But the deputy made three arrests and investigated three deaths, according to civil service board testimony from a fellow officer in May.

Waker County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Ralph Williams was also arrested on Monday for allegedly lying to the Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission, saying the officer had been terminated last November.

There were no attorneys listed for Smith or Williams on Monday afternoon. Telephone and email messages seeking comment were left with the Walker County Sheriff’s Office.But many fellow Republicans had called on him to reconsider, and he jumped back into the running just two weeks later.

He was unopposed in the Republican primary and then defeated Democrat Megan Barry — the former Nashville mayor who resigned in 2018 in scandal — by more than 21 percentage points in November 2024.Green, 60, has served since 2019 in the 7th Congressional District, which was redrawn in 2022 to include a significant portion of Nashville. The city was carved up three ways in the 2022 redistricting so Republicans could flip a Democratic district in Congress that had covered Music City, which they successfully did.

Green previously served as an Army surgeon and in the state Senate and is from Montgomery County.Green flirted running for governor in 2017, but suspended his campaign after he was nominated by former President Donald Trump to become the Army secretary. He later