TACOMA — The sheriff of Pierce County has been ordered to post $100,000 bail while he awaits trial on false-reporting charges related to his controversial confrontation last year with a Black newspaper carrier.
Judge Jeffrey Jahns on Friday imposed the bail — 10 times the amount requested by prosecutors — during a hearing in Pierce County District Court in Tacoma, revoking Sheriff Ed Troyer’s earlier release on personal recognizance.
The Seattle Times reports that Jahns initially ordered the sheriff to be taken into custody until he posted the cash or bond, telling him, “Mr. Troyer, you are not free to leave this courtroom,” which drew an angry objection from Troyer’s attorney, John Sheeran.
Jahns relented after Sheeran produced a bail agency representative in the courtroom who said bail would immediately be posted.