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For months, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa turned his office upside down in search of a missing Internal Affairs file he claimed was stolen by backers of a sheriff’s candidate he called a “liar” and “corrupt.”
But according to five sheriff’s employees, the saga of the missing file was a ruse – all part of a “dirty-tricks campaign” by term-limited Maketa to shape the Republican primary that would pick his successor.
“This is a guy who had the file, but to protect himself politically, went after the staff pretending to think they stole it,” said the employees’ attorney, Ed Farry, summarizing the bombshell allegations at the heart of a new threat to sue the embattled, third-term sheriff.
