CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati City Council candidate has been arrested just days before the election.
Jail records show Kevin Farmer was arrested early Saturday morning and is being held in the Hamilton County Jail on a $60,000 bond.
Farmer is charged with burglary and violating a protection order — both felonies.
A Cincinnati police spokesperson wouldn't confirm whether the charges were connected with nonprofit CEO and Congressional candidate Rosemary Oglesby-Henry, but the address Farmer is accused of burglarizing is in the same block as Oglesby-Henry's home. The Congressional candidate was charged in September amid accusations she'd pointed a gun at Farmer.
Oglesby-Henry issued a statement late Sunday night that said Farmer had invaded her home on Halloween, while she was not there.
"Over the past month, my name has circulated across social media thousands of times," reads the statement from Oglesby-Henry. "As a recently-announced candidate for U.S. Congress in Ohio's 1st District, I should have been elated by that attention. Instead, I have been left humbled and questioning why a system designed to protect victims has failed to protect me. Help me understand how I could be unjustly accused and arrested based on a lie and soon after, having a person recently released from a mental health facility invade my home. I shudder to think what could have occurred had I been there."
Oglesby-Henry was arrested on an aggravated menacing charge in September. Oglesby-Henry denied the allegations that she'd pointed a gun at Farmer and her attorney, John O'Shea, said in court that Farmer had made up the story, and that there'd been a history of domestic violence between the two.
Watch to learn more about that case and the allegations made:
"He latched onto my mother, who is a giver who is a philanthropist who sees the best in any person, and he took advantage of that. He definitely put his hands on my mother," Jaliah Oglesby, Oglesby-Henry's daughter, said in September.
In her statement Sunday, Oglesby-Henry said Farmer has been squatting in her home since October 9, when he checked himself into a hospital. Oglesby-Henry said Farmer "entered my home without permission before being detained by CPD" the night of Halloween.
After Oglesby-Henry's arrest, we spoke with Farmer, who first agreed to do an interview then stopped answering his phone. During the initial phone call, he maintained that Oglesby-Henry pointed a gun at him; We also asked him if he'd ever put his hands on her and he denied ever doing so.
Farmer is running for Cincinnati City Council in Tuesday's election; that race is non-partisan.
Oglesby-Henry is seeking election to Congress as a Republican. She said she was inspired to run as the first Black Republican for Ohio's 1st district because of "key aspects of the One Big Beautiful Bill," which she said reflects the conservative principles she backs.
