PREBLE COUNTY — Jason Etter was arrested by the Preble County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday for violating a protection order. He was taken into custody at a Preble County home and will be held on no bond until he appears before an Eaton Municipal Court judge.
According to court documents, a woman reported to Kettering police in March that Etter had sent her text messages threatening to kill someone known to her. The next day, she alleged, Etter assaulted her inside her apartment by strangling her and placing the blade of a knife under her throat.
Preble County deputies discovered that Etter had access to weapons at the residence where he was arrested, a violation of an existing protection order. Preble County Sheriff Mike Simpson confirmed the weapons were found during the arrest. Deputies filed a criminal report for the protection order violation and forwarded it to the Preble County Prosecutor’s Office, which approved charges following its review.
Eaton Municipal Court had issued a warrant for Etter on May 29. His current detention without bond stems from that warrant.
Etter is also facing sentencing in Montgomery County on June 22 after pleading guilty to one count of menacing by stalking. That charge stems from separate incidents and was resolved through a plea deal in which eight counts of aggravated menacing were dismissed. A judge suspended a six-month jail sentence in that case and placed Etter on two years of probation.
Prior to the plea agreement, Etter had been charged in November 2024 in Montgomery County with one misdemeanor count of possession of a firearm while intoxicated and 16 counts of aggravated menacing. The recent arrest occurred while he was still under the terms of that probation.
Etter’s probation in the Montgomery County case includes conditions related to weapons possession and contact with the victim in that matter, according to court records.