ST. LOUIS

ST. LOUIS — The city's embattled sheriff, Alfred Montgomery, was indicted Thursday on a misdemeanor civil rights charge stemming from his handcuffing of a jail official.

Federal prosecutors say Montgomery committed deprivation of rights under the color of law in February when he ordered his deputies to handcuff the deputy jail commissioner, Tammy Ross, after she refused to give him access to a detainee.

It marks the latest controversy for Montgomery, who is also facing a lawsuit from Missouri's attorney general seeking his removal from office for the handcuffing of Ross and on accusations he misspent public resources and tapped his employees to pick up his children from school. Justin Gelfand, Montgomery's attorney, said the sheriff pleaded not guilty Thursday to the charge in

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