{"id":53092,"date":"2025-08-13T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=53092"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:57:49","slug":"man-indicted-for-retaliation-of-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/man-indicted-for-retaliation-of-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Indicted For Retaliation Of Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"53093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/man-indicted-for-retaliation-of-witness\/ronald-bryan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?fit=990%2C557&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"990,557\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ronald Bryan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?fit=990%2C557&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-53093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?zoom=2&amp;resize=125%2C125 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?zoom=3&amp;resize=125%2C125 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><br \/>\nA Nelson County man was indicted on a felony charge of retaliating against a participant in the legal process, specifically the Crystal Rogers murder trial, according to court records.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On July 21, 2025, just weeks after Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson were found guilty, Ronald William Bryan threatened Thomas &#8220;Ritchie&#8221; Riggs for allegedly providing false testimony during the trial, according to an August 6 indictment and other court records. <\/p>\n<p>Riggs was Houck&#8217;s former realtor and testified Rogers feared Houck was going to move her out of their home. Riggs also testified Rogers accused Houck of cheating a few weeks before her disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan is married to Rogers&#8217; grandmother and was in court almost every day of the murder trial supporting her family.<\/p>\n<p>According to his arrest citation, Bryan &#8220;threatened physical force&#8221; against Riggs because he believed Riggs provided false testimony. <\/p>\n<p>On August 10, Bryan posted a $5,000 bond to get out of jail and will have a dusk until dawn curfew, must remain alcohol and drug free and not have any contact with Riggs. <\/p>\n<p>Bryan is scheduled to next appear in court August 21. He has pleaded not guilty.<br \/>\nSource: WDRB <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nelson County man was indicted on a felony charge of retaliating against a participant in the legal process, specifically the Crystal Rogers murder trial, according to court records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":53093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archive","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ronald-Bryan.webp?fit=990%2C557&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-dOk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 15:59:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53094,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53092\/revisions\/53094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}