It’s better than that, they are going to charge someone who was not even there. this is level of idiots running around with badges today.
Remember the tales of how the Soviets would bill the families of the people they murdered for the price of the bullets? It's the same, statist, merciless logic.
In America, this redneck sheriff would be sporting tar and feathers right now. If he was lucky! In the USSA we now live in, he will be overwhelmingly re-elected. "Tough On Crime", y'know ...