Chief, officer charged in connection with inmate put on bus

CARROLLTON, Ky. (AP) — A northern Kentucky grand jury has indicted a police chief and police officer in connection with a mentally disabled inmate who was driven to Louisville and placed on a bus to Florida last spring.

Attorney General Jack Conway’s office said the chief, 48-year-old Michael S. Willhoite, and 50-year-old Ronald W. Dickow were indicted Monday on charges of complicity to commit kidnapping, complicity to commit custodial interference and complicity to commit official misconduct.

The indictment accuses them of unlawfully restraining Carroll County Detention Center inmate Adam Horine and violating a court order to transport him to Eastern State Hospital, a mental institution.

The men were arraigned Monday in Carroll County Circuit Court. Conway’s office says they are not in custody.

Neither Willhoite nor Dickow could be located for comment Monday.

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