Larry Myer/Credit: Jackson Co Sheriff

 

(KAIR)--The Lieutenant for the Brown County Sheriff's Office accused of misdemeanor harassment crimes against a local tribal officer has retained legal counsel from Topeka in advance of his forthcoming first appearance in a Brown County courtroom.

According to online court records, Larry Myer, who also once served as Undersheriff for Atchison County, and a resident of Lancaster, has retained Thomas G. Lemon of the Topeka-based law firm of Cavanaugh, Biggs & Lemon, P.A. to act as his defense in the case accusing him of the charges of intimidation of a witness or victim and harassment by telecommunications device.

Myer, last week, was arrested by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation after agents coordinated his surrender at the Jackson County Jail where the KBI says he was arrested on a warrant for his alleged crimes.

According to a release from the KBI, the Kickapoo Tribal Police Department requested the investigation by the agency in January after Myer allegedly threatened and harassed a tribal officer who had ticketed him for a traffic violation in December of last year.

Brandon Apperson, special prosecutor from the Johnson County District Attorney's Office, was appointed by Brown County to handle the case.

Myer, released on bond following his arrest, is scheduled to make his first appearance on the morning of July 22.