Fortney decries hire of ex-sheriff as 'political payback'

EVERETT — The relationship between Sheriff Adam Fortney and the county executive just got tense.

His voice raised, Fortney called the executive’s decision to hire former Sheriff Ty Trenary as a law and justice policy analyst a “political payback.”

Trenary had been sheriff for six years, before he lost resoundingly in the Nov. 5 elections against Fortney, then a night shift patrol sergeant.

Afterward, Trenary opted out of staying on at the sheriff’s office as a captain. Then on Friday, County Executive Dave Somers made the announcement that the ousted sheriff will join his office as a senior policy analyst focused on law and justice, emergency services, homeland security and “other high priority issues” that cross departments and agencies. Trenary will make an annual salary of $148,100.

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