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State Senate hopeful charged with trespassing
UPDATE at 10 a.m. May 18: A not guilty plea was entered and a trial has been set for 2:30 p.m. on June 22 in Area II Court.
HAMILTON — One of the five Butler County residents seeking to replace Sen. Gary Cates, R-West Chester Twp., will be in court Wednesday morning answering to a criminal trespassing charge.
Michael Shawn McCabe, 32, of Fairfield Twp., is accused of being on the property at Fairfield North Elementary School, 6116 Morris Road, when he was told not to be there, according to a March 15 Fairfield Twp. police report.
The report states McCabe “had caused problems at the school on several earlier occasions and had received a written notice not to come back on the premises.”
McCabe said that is false.
“I’ve never had any incident at that school,” he said, adding he’s worked at the school’s festival for a number of years.
The hearing for the fourth-degree misdemeanor is scheduled at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday in Area II Court in Hamilton.
The state senate-hopeful is looking to garner a recommendation Wednesday evening from the Butler County Republican Party to be the next District 4 State Senator. The Ohio Senate Republican Caucus will make the actual appointment. Cates is resigning his position to take a job as senior vice chancellor with the Ohio Board of Regents. He starts on May 23.
McCabe said his ex-wife — the daughter of Fairfield Twp. Trustee Mark Sutton — “tried to enforce what was an (automatic restraining) order that came into play upon the divorce.” McCabe said his ex-wife, a first-grade teacher at Fairfield North, was “simply angry” he had moved on.
McCabe said he was dropping off his then-girlfriend’s child at the school when he was reported. According to the March 15 report, a teacher noticed McCabe leaving the school after escorting to the child to the office and reported him.
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