NOW: DAs Shawn Dick and Margaret Moore starting their press conference on indictments of Sheriff Robert Chody and another county official.
Dick says he was bound by law to take issue to grand jury; He says jurors heard from 19 witnesses.
Offenses carry up to 10 years behind bars. Nov. 30 is first court date for Nassour and Chody. Dick says witnesses “need to be left alone.”
Dick would not discuss evidence in tampering case but “suffice to say we spent several months putting this together.”
Dick says Williamson grand jurors found probable cause to bring charges here locally.
“I can’t talk about specifics of how the tampering occurred,” Dick says.
“I thought long and hard bout timing,” Dick says. He says the timing is largely based on information investigators learned in June 2020. “You have to do what is right according to the law...The timing isn’t chosen.”
Dick: “My interest was not in pursuing a company out of New York” in terms of deciding not to pursue charges against “Live PD.”
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