A grand jury indicted Breckinridge County Sheriff Todd Pate on additional charges from a March 8, 2019, vehicle crash.
Pate is accused of drunken driving, assault and other offenses after the accident near Axtel on Highway 259. The new indictment on Wednesday (10/2) supersedes the previous indictment originally made in April. Pate is now charged with assault, operating under the influence (second offense), four counts of wanton endangerment, two counts of criminal mischief and leaving the scene of the accident. The assault and criminal mischief charges against Pate are new. He no longer will be charged with tampering with physical evidence. The grand jury did not indict on the tampering charge Wednesday.
According to the new indictments, the special prosecutor in the case recommended that a judge continue Pate’s $10,000 bond as posted after his initial arraignment in June. Authorities said Pate was driving his personal pickup truck at the time of the crash in March. Pate remains on the job as sheriff, though bond restrictions ordered in June do not allow him to drive or carry a firearm.
Pate is scheduled for arraignment on the revised charges November 15.
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