Sheriff tried to avoid arrest: ‘Jesus Christ, I’m a sheriff’

KALKASKA, Mich. (AP) — A police report and bodycam video show that a Michigan sheriff accused of drunken driving asked a deputy not to arrest him.
Television station WJRT obtained bodycam video from the Nov. 16 arrest of Midland County Sheriff Scott Stephenson, who later pleaded guilty to driving while impaired.
Stephenson is heard on the video asking that he not be arrested. He says, “Jesus Christ, I’m a sheriff.”
Stephenson was suspected of drunken driving after leaving