A fired Vermont sheriff’s deputy who was charged with assault for kicking a shackled prisoner has won the election for sheriff of the county in which he served. John Grismore, 49, of Fairfax, won Tuesday’s race to become Franklin County sheriff, surpassing the two write-in candidates, according to the Vermont secretary of state’s office. Grismore was the only candidate...

After a lengthy investigation, then a review by outside officials, a candidate to lead the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office was formally charged Monday with simple assault — a charge to which he pleaded not guilty. John Grismore already lost his job as a deputy in the office. The retiring sheriff, Roger Langevin, fired him this summer after watching video showing…

His treatment of this handcuffed and shackled man in early August — who investigators say was also drunk — already cost John Grismore his job in the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

A fired Vermont deputy who is the only candidate on the November ballot to become sheriff of the county where he served was charged Friday with simple assault for kicking a shackled detainee, authorities said. John Grismore, 49, of Fairfax was cited on the charge Friday through his attorney. He is due in court Monday in St. Albans to answer…

A candidate for sheriff in one Vermont county is breaking his silence, more than a month after video surfaced that showed him appearing to mistreat a handcuffed and seemingly intoxicated man who was in custody. The candidate for Franklin County Sheriff, former captain John Grismore, insists the segment of video that has been widely seen in the past month does…

For the first time since this video shook up an election in northwestern Vermont, John Grismore is breaking his silence about the act that cost him his job as a sheriff’s deputy.

A state police investigation in northwestern Vermont, for now, has left big questions surrounding one race in November’s elections — because the subject of the investigation is a candidate for office. Video released last week by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office shows Capt. John Grismore, a sheriff’s deputy, kicking a handcuffed and seemingly intoxicated detainee, trying to get the...