Sheriff arrested over fight at high school basketball game

 Police say a sheriff has been charged with assaulting a teenage girl while trying to break up a fight at an eastern Kentucky high school.

Kentucky State Police say in a statement that Owsley County Sheriff Brent Lynch is also part of the Owsley County High School coaching staff. Trooper Matthew Gayheart told news outlets Lynch is alleged to have rushed the floor during the fight between players and struck a Perry County Central player while breaking up the fight.

The statement says Lynch was arrested Thursday by an Owsley County sheriff’s deputy and booked into the Three Forks Regional Jail in Lee County. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he has an attorney.