Auglaize County Prosecuting Attorney (Unexpired Term)
What does this office do?
- Deciding which crimes get charged and which are dropped
- Making plea deals and asking for sentences
- Working with police on criminal cases
Affects: Anti-Corruption, Public Safety and Crime Control, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties,
Candidates:
Republican · Incumbent
Benjamin R. Elder has been Auglaize County's prosecuting attorney since April 2025 and was an assistant prosecutor there from 2012, after ten years as an assistant prosecutor in Richland and Sandusky counties. A state prosecutors' group named him outstanding assistant prosecutor in 2015.
Records: Public Safety and Crime Control 2 for
Source: lookup.boe.ohio.gov