OH - Sheriff (Dean Kimpel) indicted on sexual battery charge

Dean Kimpel
Original Article

09/21/2011

By Pam Elliot and David Robinson

CELINA (WDTN) - The Shelby County, Ohio Sheriff was arrested after being indicted Sept. 20 by an Auglaize County grand jury.

Dean Kimpel, 57, was arrested Wednesday morning on a charge of sexual battery.

The indictment follows allegations by a former Shelby County Sheriff's Deputy Jodi Van Fossen. Van Fossen claimed that on July 24, 2010 Kimpel sexually assaulted her at her home in Auglaize County.

Kimpel was jailed at the Auglaize County Correctional Center on $100,000 bond.