CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A Chillicothe man indicted by a Scioto County grand jury on six felony counts was arrested in Chillicothe on Sunday night, November 8, and is being held in the Ross County Jail for Scioto County authorities, according to court, police and jail records compiled by J News Network.
Aaron A. Stanley, 40, of Chillicothe, was indicted on October 26 in Scioto County Common Pleas Court, according to court records cited by J News Network. The indictment charges three counts of rape, one count of kidnapping, one count of endangering children and one count of gross sexual imposition, in a case alleging offenses against a 9-year-old in May 2026. The rape and kidnapping counts are first-degree felonies. All charges are allegations; an indictment is not a conviction, and Stanley is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
Chillicothe police went to a residence on Columbus Street on Sunday to serve the Scioto County warrant, according to Chillicothe Police Department reports cited by J News Network. Police reports say officers found Stanley on the roof of the residence after he went through the attic, and that officers used Tasers to take him into custody after he refused repeated commands to surrender. The department’s daily media log records the arrest at 10:20 p.m. on Columbus Street, J News Network reported.
Police reports say Stanley was taken to Adena Regional Medical Center, where a Taser probe was removed, and was then cleared and taken to the Ross County Jail, according to J News Network. Police reports also say officers found a small baggie containing a crystal-like substance in his pocket that he identified as methamphetamine; J News Network noted that no drug charge appears on the jail booking record.
Ross County Jail records show Stanley was booked on Monday, November 9, and is held on a Scioto County Sheriff’s Office hold, listed as awaiting transfer with no bond, according to J News Network. The booking record also lists two charges from the Chillicothe arrest — obstructing official business, with a $10,000 cash or surety bond, and resisting arrest, with bond listed as concurrent.
Stanley has not yet been arraigned in Scioto County Common Pleas Court, and the Scioto County case remains pending, J News Network reported. What happens next is his transfer to Scioto County and an arraignment there, where the charges will be formally read and a judge will address bond and counsel.
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