Oklahoma sheriff hit with more serious charge in inmate's death

ENID — Garfield County Sheriff Jerry Niles was charged again Wednesday in a jail inmate's death, this time with first-degree manslaughter.

Anthony Huff died in 2016 after he was unlawfully confined to a restraint chair "without food, water, oversight and monitoring" in excess of 55 hours, a prosecutor alleged.

Huff, 58, of Enid, had been jailed for public intoxication and was restrained after he began hallucinating.

Niles, 60, was first elected sheriff in 2012.