Avery Kreemer

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May 14—Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman asked state Rep. Rodney Creech, R-West Alexandria, to resign before removing him from his committee posts following a state criminal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct with a minor teenage female in 2023. "I did ask him to consider resigning," Huffman, a Lima Republican, told the Dayton Daily News Wednesday. Huffman said he met with Creech recently.

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Huffman said he met with Creech recently. “(I) told him that this, on its face, was very serious and I did not think that he could fill out his duties effectively as a legislator with this in the public sphere,” Huffman said. Huffman said his decision to remove Creech from all his committee posts — including as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, a position for which Huffman hand-picked Creech at the start of the year — was colored by the same conclusions.

1 day ago | daytondailynews.com | Avery Kreemer

Huffman said the decision to remove Creech from committees — including as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, a position for which Huffman hand-picked Creech at the start of the year — was his. “I did that unilaterally. As the Speaker, under the rules, I can remove any member at my discretion from the committee or chairmanship, and I did that,” Huffman, R-Lima, told reporters Wednesday.

1 day ago | yahoo.com | Avery Kreemer

May 13—A state investigation of alleged sexual misconduct involving state Rep. Rodney Creech, R-West Alexandria, and a minor teenage female this news organization has chosen not to identify concluded in October with no criminal charges but findings of "concerning and suspicious" behavior by the state lawmaker, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.

2 days ago | daytondailynews.com | Avery Kreemer

Simpson and Votel allegedly took no investigative action and created no record of the allegation when initially told a potential crime was committed, delaying a criminal investigation until it was reported a second time over a month later to a different law enforcement agency. A month after the case was closed with no charges brought, Creech won his third successive term in the Ohio House of Representatives.