An Indiana House candidate was arrested on the eve of the election for violating a protective order.
Republican House District 26 delegate Jim Schenke was booked into the Tippecanoe County Jail on a preliminary charge of invasion of privacy. JC online information.
He is accused of commenting on the Facebook post of a person who has a protective order against him, according to the Purdue Explorer.
Police received a call about the incident at 9:30 p.m. Sunday and Schenke, 57, was arrested at his Wabash Township home the next day.
The West Lafayette challenger currently has two protective orders against him issued by a local attorney and his staff.
The Republican delegate for the 26th district of the House of Representatives, Jim Schenke, has been arrested on the eve of the elections for violating a protective order.
They accuse him of commenting on the Facebook post of a person who has a protection order against him
The politician placed one against a person who lives in his neighborhood.
He entered the jail at 6:10 a.m. on Monday, but no longer appears on the list of inmates.
Schenke took to Facebook to deny the allegations and claimed that he was the victim of the situation.
“For anyone who cares about honesty, I have been accused of violating a protective order,” Schenke said.
“The truth is, I have a protective order against the sociopath who has been stalking and threatening me for months.”
He compared the individual in question to Michael Keaton’s psychotic, con artist character in the 1990 film Pacific Heights.
Schenke said the individual is “an angry, drunk, pagan transgender activist who became madly convinced he wanted to kill his son and who fancies himself as some sort of caped Avenger with license to stalk and threaten those he hates.” “.
Tippecanoe County Chief Deputy Terry Ruley said there was probable cause to arrest Schenke for violating the protective order.
He was booked into the county jail on a preliminary charge of violation of privacy, but claims he is the victim of a “sociopath” against whom he has issued his own protective order.
Schenke, pictured with his family, hopes to be the first Republican for House District 26 since 2018.
He is running against incumbent Democrat Chris Campbell.
The incident is the latest scandal to hit the embattled politician after he was accused of crashing his campaign trailer into a utility pole without insurance.
However, the charge was dropped on October 22.
He still faces another civil charge from the Tippecanoe County Board of Elections for allegedly failing to include adequate political warnings in its campaign ads.
Schenke is campaigning to unseat Democrat Chris Campbell. If successful, he will become the district’s first Republican House member since 2018.
DailyMail.com has contacted Schenke and the Tippecanoe Sheriff’s Office for comment.
