Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins was indicted Monday on charges involving an alleged plot to murder a former deputy who he believed had a recording of him saying something racist. According to the News & Observer, Wilkins was indicted on two counts of felony obstruction of justice and the whole plotting to kill a guy thing is still under investigation.

The sheriff, who has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, has been accused of plotting with an unnamed individual to murder Joshua Freeman, going as far as providing instructions on how to get away with the crime.

“Sheriff Brindell Wilkins learned one of his deputies had a tape of him making “racially offensive” comments, prosecutors say. So the North Carolina lawman encouraged another man to kill the officer.” https://t.co/E9w1S33lZb — Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) September 17, 2019

“You ain’t got the weapon, you ain’t got nothing to go on,” said Wilkins. “The only way we find out these murder things is people talk. You can’t tell nobody, not a thing.”

The recording, which was obtained back in 2014 by district attorney Mike Waters, also contains statements like “take care of it” and “the only way you gonna stop him is kill him.”

Wilkins was arrested on the charges, but was released on a $20,000 bond and can still serve as sheriff until and unless he is convicted. It’s unclear whether conspiracy to murder charges will happen as investigators try to figure out why Wilkins told another guy to murder a former deputy.

“Part of this investigation has centered on why this sort of conversation would have occurred, what the underlying motivation would have been,” said Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman. They also seem to have gotten sidetracked a bit when the investigation led to some other revelations involving the “operations and accounting practices” of the Granville County drug interdiction unit.

This latest bit of news to come out of North Carolina has people wondering what the heck is going on over there and with police in general.

More corruption in North Carolina:



This sheriff (Brindell Wilkins) made “racially offensive” comments.



A deputy recorded them.



The Sheriff plotted to kill the deputy.



He's still working as the sheriff.

🤔🤔🤔 #tuesdaythoughts #tuesdaymotivation https://t.co/8XOilnax73 — Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) September 17, 2019

And these are the people that are supposed to be “protecting and serving” us. Who would never lie about anything at all, surely



|Granville County, North Carolina Sheriff Brindell Wilkins helped murder plot against deputy, prosecutors say| https://t.co/lmuznduma2 — michael ☭Ⓥ🇵🇷🇮🇹 (@ReadAndAct_) September 17, 2019

Yeah, maybe allowing bail was a mistake...

https://t.co/b4QlOYwTYA — Curmudgeon (@witnesstoevil) September 17, 2019

All normal things for a police officer to do… *wanders off to put himself out of his misery by sticking his head in a wheat thresher* — 🇨🇦ynoT (@CrtvPrdx) September 17, 2019

You have to be guilty of biased arrests if your position is: I can’t be outed as a racist sheriff because every case in the department will be scrutinized to make sure no person of color was wrongfully arrested so I need to murder the deputy who can prove I’m a racist. — KD (@Fly_Sistah) September 17, 2019

Ofc North Carolina. Making a run for Florida’s status — Ziva (@Ziva0164) September 17, 2019

This happened FIVE YEARS AGO but he’s still Sheriff and was only just charged?!?! Also, one of the charges is for not arresting the guy whom he asked to commit murder? Wtf is going on in North Carolina? — Greg Armstrong (@GregDArmstrong) September 17, 2019

All of this could have been so easily avoided by simply not saying racist things.