Trumbull County Commissioner Niki Frenchko's jail booking photo, taken Thursday.

WARREN – Trumbull County Commissioner Niki Frenchko was handcuffed by Trumbull County deputies this morning on charges of disrupting the county commissioners meeting.

She was attempting to defend herself from statements made in a letter sent to the commissioners by Sheriff Paul Monroe.

Monroe wrote to demand an apology from Frenchko for her making statements in a public meeting that questioned the medical treatment of a prisoner in the Trumbull County jail.

Board President Frank Fuda had the board’s clerk read the entire letter aloud.

Frenchko repeatedly made statements while commission Clerk Paula Vivoda Klotz read the letter.

Monroe asked for the apology from Frenchko as a first step to regaining public trust.

“I expect the apology to be delivered in the same public forum as was the publication of the false accusations,” Monroe wrote.

Frenchko immediately began defending her original June 1 statements.

After a few moments, Commissioner Mauro Cantalamessa noted that Frenchko was disrupting the meeting.

At that point, two sheriff deputies walked up to Frenchko, asked her to get up and escorted her from the room.

A few moments later, she was taken out of the commissioners office in handcuffs.