Closing arguments in trial for convicted sex offender accused of touching 11-year-old girl Darius Knight (Source: Erie County Jail) By Julia Bingel | April 14, 2021 at 10:56 AM EDT - Updated April 14 at 10:56 AM
ERIE COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - Closing arguments will be heard Wednesday afternoon in the jury trial for a convicted sex offender facing charges of inappropriately touching an 11-year-old girl.
The trial for Darius Knight started on April 6 in front of Erie County Common Pleas Judge Roger Binette.
Knight is charged with kidnapping, importuning, gross sexual imposition and unlawful restraint.
Sandusky police said Knight touched an 11-year-old girl who showed up at his Barker Street home in August 2019 collecting money for charity.
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TOLEDO - A Salem Township man convicted of making threats to Ottawa County schools won an appeal to have his case back in court to determine if his conviction can be expunged.
In his appeal, Charles Tingler argued that his record should be expunged and records in his 2014 case sealed, because the trial court did not provide a detailed explanation for denying his motion.
Tingler was charged in April 2014 after make bomb and gun threats at schools, including threats to shoot up Port Clinton Middle School, and was later convicted during a March 2015 trial of two counts of inducing panic, disrupting public services, and aggravated menacing.