A preliminary hearing has been delayed for a Whitesburg man accused of assaulting an officer at the Letcher County Jail earlier this month.
Ethan Brown was scheduled for a hearing yesterday in Letcher County District Court over charges of assault and terroristic threatening but it was delayed because he is scheduled to have a mental competency evaluation.
WYMT reports Brown was charged July 1 for allegedly threatening to beat an officer who was asking him to return to his jail cell.
When he was arraigned for that incident he reportedly asked the judge if he could get his bond
reduced so he could go to a drug treatment facility.
His next hearing is August 1.