A third candidate has joined the May Republican Primary race for sheriff, but probably not the one most people are anticipating.
Billy Rowe of Williamsburg filed early Friday afternoon in the Whitley County Clerk's Office to run for sheriff.
A Williamsburg man, who hit a Whitley County Sheriff's cruiser head-on in 2008 seriously injuring a deputy, entered a plea in circuit court Wednesday morning rather than face trial.
While the location of the 78 firearms that are unaccounted from the sheriff's department after the Dec. 21 break-in is unclear, a check of court records indicates how the sheriff's department acquired what are believed to be 19 of the weapons, including four guns that are indirectly connected to a civil lawsuit against Sheriff Lawrence Hodge, which is set for trial in about two months.