PREBLE COUNTY — A former local township trustee is facing formal charges for allegedly filming a juvenile in a bathroom.
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Joseph Wade Guthrie, 37, of Eaton, was indicted Monday on one count of tampering with evidence and two counts of voyeurism, according to Preble County Common Pleas Court documents.
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As News Center 7 previously reported, Guthrie was arrested in July and initially charged in Eaton Municipal Court.
A release from the Ohio Attorney General’s office on Monday stated he was accused of digitally recording two juveniles “in a place where the victims had an expectation of privacy.”
Guthrie was a Gasper Township trustee at the time of his arrest. News Center 7 checked on Monday, and he is no longer listed as a trustee. Online records show a new trustee was appointed in August.
Attorneys from the Ohio Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Section are prosecuting the case.
Guthrie is due back in court next week.
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