The top cop in Kosciusko County is facing a slew of criminal charges.

Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine was indicted Monday on 10 felony counts, including five counts of official misconduct, three for bribery, one for intimidation, and one for assisting a criminal.

Rovenstine is accused of accepting $40,000 in exchange for favors granted to an inmate at the Kosciusko County Jail.

Inmate Kevin Bronson and visitor Mark Soto are accused of receiving special privileges, including the ability to have unrecorded conversations.

According to the indictment, Rovenstine "did knowingly agree to accept property from Kevin Bronson" for the following amounts:

March 11, 2011 - June 30, 2014: $10,000

July 1, 2014 - July 19, 2015: $10,000

July 20, 2015 - August 10, 2015: $20,000

Rovenstine is also accused of threatening an officer who investigated Bronson while he was an inmate. According to the indictment, the officer was threatened with the "fear of retaliation."

A warrant for Rovenstine's arrest was issued Monday morning.

Rovenstine first took office as Kosciusko County sheriff in 1998 and was re-elected in 2014.

Marshall County prosecutor E. Nelson Chipman, Jr. says right now, the grand jury's recommendation remains sealed.

“It would be fair to assume the document contains matters of vital public concern to the citizens of Kosciusko County. We will seek to have it unsealed through the proper legal channels,” Chipman said.

“You could have a murder in a tiny town out there, but at the same time. Things happen out there, but you don't expect it in your community with the sheriff or somebody like that,” Warsaw resident Mike Maroney said.

Kevin Bronson, 56, has been indicted on three charges of corrupt business influence and seven charges of intimidation.

Mark H. Soto, a professor at Grace College, was indicted on three charges of corrupt business influence and three counts of intimidation.

Bronson and Soto allegedly were involved in operating Young Dragon Enterprises, LLC, an organization accused of racketeering.

According to the indictment, one man was placed in fear of retaliation after he asked for contact information of Bronson's superior in the Aryan Brotherhood. The alleged victim had his family leave home in the middle of the night, and he stayed awake "to await the threatened commission of a forcible felony."

Bronson and Soto are also accused of threatening a lawyer who declined to help them secure a movie or book contract without payment. According to the indictment, they threatened to beat or kill the lawyer and members of his family.

The other charges of intimidation include multiple death threats and other bodily harm against families.

Grace College, where Soto currently works as a professor, released the following statement Monday afternoon:

The details surrounding this arrest are personal, not professional. They have nothing to do with Grace College. It is the policy of Grace College to not comment on ongoing legal or personnel matters. Mark Soto has been placed on administrative leave.

Marshall County Prosecutor Nelson Chipman has been appointed the special prosecutor in this case.

Chipman took no questions at the press conference.

Rovenstine is expected to respond to some of the charges in a hearing in Elkhart County court on March 17th.

Before the news conference, Chipman showed an old video of Bronson unrelated to the case.

In the video, Bronson admits to being a former gang member and discusses a movie and TV deals portraying his life.

In the charging documents, Bronson and Soto are accused of threatening to kill a man and his family if he didn't help them secure a movie or book contract.