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BILLINGS — Two police officers reported finding the Roosevelt County sheriff asleep on a sidewalk in Wolf Point earlier this month.

A police report obtained by The Billings Gazette indicates Officer Joey Olson spotted a man lying on the sidewalk about 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 14, and suspected he was "intoxicated and sleeping."

The officers identified the man as Sheriff Freedom Crawford and took him to his in-laws' house at his request, Lt. Brian Irwin said.

Crawford wasn't cited. The Gazette says it's unclear if the county took any disciplinary action.

Crawford declined comment on Aug. 22 other than to tell a Gazette reporter that "it sounds like small-town politics to me." He was out of the office on Thursday morning and did not return phone messages left by The Associated Press seeking comment.

Crawford has a previous alcohol-related arrest. He was given a six-month suspended jail term in March 2012 after pleading guilty to three misdemeanors, including assault, for throwing a man through a bar window during a drunken fight in Lewistown in August 2011.