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In Butler County Common Pleas Court on Thursday President Judge Thomas Doerr:

- Denied a bail reduction for Paul Claypoole, who has been incarcerated on $100,000 bail in Butler County Prison awaiting trial since April 2017.

Claypoole is charged with two counts of felony involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and three counts of misdemeanor indecent assault following a report of a child being sexually assaulted on Center Avenue on April 3.

- Released William S. Brookbank on his own recognizance, with the stipulations of electronic monitoring, pretrial supervision, no contact with the victim and no use of social media.

Brookbank had been incarcerated for more than 180 days in violation of state criminal procedure rules.

Police charged Brookbank, 49, of Eau Claire with threatening the life of a woman in October.

Brookbank made the alleged threat on Sept. 27, according to court documents, when police arrested him on charges he sexually assaulted the woman’s 5-year-old daughter.

- Released Joshua Hollobaugh, 36, of Worthington, who was incarcerated in Butler County Prison on charges of possession of a controlled substance, use or possession of drug paraphernalia, loitering and prowling at night, and criminal conspiracy.

Doerr said Hollobaugh must undergo a drug and alcohol assessment and be subjected to pretrial supervision.

- Delayed for two weeks a decision on a request to remove Robin S. Roxberry from the Megan’s Law Sex Offender List.

While Roxberry’s attorney argued that his 1984 crime took place before the inception of Megan’s Law, the assistant district attorney argued that his inclusion on the list is appropriate.

Roxberry was sentenced in 1992 by Judge John Brydon to 10 to 20 years in state prison for the 1984 rape of a 55-year-old Butler woman in an alley along Broad Street. The sentence, which was handed down after Roxberry admitted to the crime, also covered charges of kidnapping and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse.

Roxberry, now 56, was jailed again in 2008 for not reporting his new address to police as a Megan’s Law sex offender.

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