Indiana house candidate is ARRESTED on eve of election day

An Indiana House of Representatives campaigner has been arrested connected the eve of the election for violating a extortion order.

Republican delegate for the 26th House District Jim Schenke was booked into Tippecanoe County Jail connected a preliminary complaint of penetration of privacy, JC Online reports.

He is accused of commenting connected the Facebook station of a idiosyncratic who has a extortion bid against him, according to the Purdue Explorer.

Police received a telephone astir the incidental astatine 9.30pm connected Sunday and Schenke, 57, was arrested astatine his Wabash Township location the adjacent day.

The challenger for West Lafayette presently has 2 extortion orders against him placed by a section lawyer and their staff.

The person placed 1 against a idiosyncratic surviving successful his neighborhood. 

He was booked into jailhouse astatine 6.10am connected Monday morning, but nary longer appears connected the inmate roster.

Schenke took to Facebook to contradict the allegations, stating that helium was the unfortunate successful the situation.

'For anyone who cares astir honesty I person been accused of violating a protective order,' Schenke said. 

'In information I person a protective bid against the sociopath that has been stalking and menacing maine for months.' 

He likened the idiosyncratic acrophobic to Michael Keaton's psychotic, con-artist quality successful the 1990 movie Pacific Heights.

Schenke said the idiosyncratic is,  'a drunk aggravated pagan transgender activistic who became insanely convinced that I wanted to termination his kid who imagines himself immoderate benignant of caped Avenger with a licence to stalk and menace those helium hates.'

Tippecanoe County Chief Deputy Terry Ruley said determination was probable origin to apprehension Schenke for violating the extortion order.

The incidental is the latest ungraded to deed the embattled person aft helium was accused of driving his run motorhome into a airy station portion uninsured.

However, the complaint was dropped connected October 22.

He inactive faces different civilian complaint from the Tippecanoe County Election Board for allegedly failing to see capable governmental disclaimers successful his run adverts.

Schenke is campaiging to unseat Democrat Chris Campbell. If helium is successful, helium volition go the archetypal Republican location subordinate for the territory since 2018.

DailyMail.com has contacted Schenke and Tippecanoe Sheriff's Office for comment.