Ouray County’s former undersheriff, who was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly propositioning a teenager for sex, has received a 1-year unsupervised probation sentence in a plea deal.

Richard Herman, who worked for the sheriffs office for 11 1/2 years, received the deal after prosecutors were unable to have the victim in the case testify in the trial, which had been scheduled to start April 22. Herman agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of harassment in the deal and was se...