Michigan township supervisor who resigned after arrest in child sex sting re-elected to his position in landslide

A disgraced Michigan township supervisor who resigned from agency aft he was caught successful an alleged kid activity sting cognition shockingly notched capable votes to reclaim his aged spot during Tuesday’s election. 

Former Delta Township Supervisor Ken Fletcher won backmost his spot aft capturing astir 89% of nan votes cast, according to preliminary results — defeating 2 write-in candidates who entered nan title pursuing his resignation connected Sept. 3, nan aforesaid time he was arrested, section outlets reported. 

The Democrat, who was supervisor for much than a decade, is accused of engaging successful sexually definitive conversations pinch an serviceman posing arsenic a 15-year-old boy connected nan making love app Grindr, pursuing a sting conducted by regional, authorities and section rule enforcement agencies.

Police said nan speech later shifted disconnected nan app to matter messages, wherever Fletcher expressed his desire to meet nan teen decoy astatine nan Lansing Mall to talk, though he ne'er arranged a get-together, according to tribunal documents obtained by WILX 10 News. 

Fletcher, whose sanction was kept connected nan ballot owed to authorities predetermination law, now has until Jan. 1, 2025, to determine if he will judge aliases diminution nan position, according to section outlets.

Delta Township Clerk Mary Clark, who has been serving arsenic interim supervisor since Fletcher resigned, said nan township committee will person 45 days to name a caller supervisor if Fletcher stays retired of office, the Lansing State Journal reported.

“There are 3 choices connected his part, and truthful it’s really benignant of presumptive of america to enactment aliases determine to enactment successful a definite measurement earlier we cognize what is happening pinch that position,” Clark said.

Fletcher’s lawyer, Michael Nichols, said his customer was “pleasantly surprised” by nan predetermination results, adding that he hasn’t thought astir authorities since his arrest.

“The biggest mobility I deliberation for Ken Fletcher is, is this nan correct point for not conscionable maine but for nan community, americium I still nan champion personification for nan job,” Nichols told WILX 10 News.

Fletcher was charged pinch accosting a kid for obscene purposes and utilizing a machine to perpetrate a crime, nan outlet reported.

The disgraced supervisor, who is retired connected bond, pleaded not blameworthy to nan 2 felonies, tribunal records show.