St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery has been indicted on five new federal felony charges related to his order to handcuff then-acting Jail Commissioner Tammy Ross earlier this year.

They include four charges of witness retaliation and one of witness tampering. Montgomery pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Magistrate Judge John M. Bodenhausen ordered Montgomery to be placed under house arrest until a hearing next week. He'll have to wear an ankle monitor.

Montgomery remains in the job, but David C. Mason, the sheriff’s office attorney who is a retired judge, will be running the office in the interim.

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Court documents say that Montgomery demoted and then promoted a deputy who was de

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