Whitley Co, KY Journalists Endure Death Threats To Take Down Corrupt Sheriff

Source: The Inquisitor

Whitley County, Kentucky is a better place thanks to two young journalists at the Times-Tribune. Adam Sulfridge and Samantha Swindler dove deep into the shady dealings of county sheriff Lawrence Hodge and exposed a massive drug trade running through the small Kentucky town.

But it wasn’t easy.

Sulfridge, who was just 20-years-old and still in school when he took on the assignment, received multiple death threats for poking around in the Sheriff’s business.

Sulfridge writes:

“You know you’re 20 years old, and you’re taking a shower one day and getting ready for class and you get a call from a federal agent because there’s a credible threat against your life. Everything about it is just so surreal. You know. You don’t– you don’t think a whole lot about it. Then later that night you start thinking, you’re like, “Geez, somebody wants to kill me. That’s a little odd.” And it’s the sheriff. The sheriff wants to kill you.”


Swindler, his boss and managing editor of the local paper, said that they both bought guns after the initial death threats were made.




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