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Actually, this sentence makes very little sense.
The word 'putative' has no clear scope to operate, leaving a meaningless sentence.
It cannot refer to the county: either Y is a county or it is not - there's nothing putative about its status.
And either actual criminal charges have been pressed or they have not. It makes no sense to speak of a putative charge.
Presumably the author intended to convey the idea of an alleged offence but has managed to get his grammar and his ideas confused.
Would you mind saying where the sentence is from? I would like to use it to illustrate a lecture on scope ambiguity and lexical ambiguity.
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