A registered sex offender has been indicted by the Tuscarawas County Grand Jury for rape and other charges months after the probation term for a previous sex crime expired.
62-year-old Bradley Bucher of Hastings, Michigan, faces counts of rape, sexual battery, gross sexual imposition, failure to register, and violating a protection order.
He was in the Tuscarawas County Jail Wednesday morning awaiting arraignment.
Bucher pleaded guilty to gross sexual imposition in 2023, which landed him in the sex offender registries in Ohio and Michigan. A two-year probation sentence expired in late 2025.
The more recent crimes are alleged to have occurred between November 2025 and July 2026.
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