ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - A Lima man will have to wait one more day before his trial starts.
Jury selection began Tuesday for 64-year-old Scott Catlett. While they had a good turnout of people that were summoned to be jurors, the court dismissed enough people that they could not get a full jury seated. So the process will resume on Wednesday with more potential jurors. In 2021, the Allen County Grand Jury indicted Catlett on one count each of kidnapping, rape, and gross sexual imposition.
In 2018, Catlett was sentenced to four years in prison on a first-degree felony kidnapping charge. He was released from prison in May of 2021 and was on parole when the alleged offense took place. According to the indictment, Catlett allegedly held a man against his will and had sexual contact with him. In his previous case, Catlett originally faced one count of kidnapping, one count of assault, and two counts of rape of a different male victim. That is until he struck a plea deal dropping all but the kidnapping charge.
