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*** “The sheriff is supposed to be protecting the public from evil,” the chief law enforcement officer for Barry County, Michigan, said during a break in the National Sheriffs’ Association 2023 conference in June. “When your government is evil or out of line, that’s what the sheriff is there for, protecting them from that.” Leaf is on the advisory board of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, founded in 2011 by former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack. The group, known as CSPOA, teaches that elected sheriffs must “protect their citizens from the overreach of an out-of-control federal government” by refusing...

BARRY COUNTY, MI -- A West Michigan prosecutor has suggested her county’s sheriff is wasting critical resources in his ongoing investigation into alleged 2020 election fraud. Barry County Prosecutor Julie Nakfoor Pratt spoke Tuesday, Oct. 25 to her county’s Board of Commissioners about the allegations, which she says are simply unfounded. Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf for many months has been pursuing the investigation. Leaf, at the same time, is under scrutiny by a special prosecutor over claims he played a role in a voting machine’s removal from Barry County’s Irving Township for examination. The removal was not proper, state...

(CNN) The Michigan State Police has expanded its investigation into whether third parties gained unauthorized access to voting machine data after the 2020 election, and is now examining potential breaches in at least one new county, CNN has learned. In a raid last Friday, state police seized one voting machine tabulator in Irving Township, Barry County Clerk Pamela Palmer told CNN on Thursday. Palmer told CNN that she was not aware of any issues until police notified her of the voting machine seizure. Michigan State Police first opened its investigation into potential voting machine breaches in February after the Secretary...

SHELBYVILLE, Mich. — A Michigan county sheriff defended the men arrested in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, including a member of the group he appeared with on a stage at a rally earlier this “I haven’t read everything up on it, I’ve got other duties to do, it wasn’t our investigation," Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf told WXMI. “I was shocked, did not see this coming with those guys, but still we can’t convict them in the media here, they do have a right to a fair trial.” Leaf was a speaker at a rally in May protesting...

A Michigan sheriff compared the governor's stay-at-home order to a mass arrest of the state's residents while speaking at a rally this week opposing the coronavirus restrictions. Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf told the gathering in Grand Rapids, Mich., that by definition the governor's measure was placing people of the state under arrest, according to MLive.com. “What’s the definition of an arrest? It’s basically taking away your free will, your right to move about,” Leaf said, adding that "an unlawful arrest is when you do it unlawfully." "So when you are ordered to your home, are you under arrest? Yeah,...

Monday at 5:00, protesters are expected to gather in downtown Grand Rapids, in objection to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay at home order. According to the Detroit Free Press, Monday's demonstrations will include Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf as a speaker. Recently, Sheriff Dar Leaf appeared on FOX News, where he referred to the stay at home order as: unconstitutional. He's also taken to Facebook, showing his support to the Owosso barber who gained national attention after refusing to adhere to the governor's orders.