LEBANON — His crime in July was to fondle a vacuum cleaner saleswoman while he held her against her will in his Mason home and threatened to rape her.

        But police and prosecutors said 39-year-old Leslie D. Stair has a history of abducting women — even kidnapping a fellow airman in Hawaii and raping her while she held her 2-year-old son.

        Thursday, a Warren County judge said he was troubled by that pattern.

        Despite letters from six of Mr. Stair's church members asking for mercy, Judge Neal Bronson classified the over-the-road truck driver as a sexual predator and sent him to prison for six years in the July incident.

        A jury convicted Mr. Stair in January of felony charges of abduction, kidnapping and gross sexual imposition in that case. Those charges carried a possible collective sentence of a dozen years in prison.

        “He can barely stay out of jail. He preys on lonely women and women who are alone,” Assistant Prosecutor Joanne Hash told Judge Bronson in asking for the maximum sentence.

        Classification as a sexual predator requires Mr. Stair to register his residence with authorities for the rest of his life.

        Mason police arrested Mr. Stair July 30 after a 20-year-old woman who works for Kirby said he accosted her at his Tradewind Drive residence when she arrived to pick up a vacuum cleaner he had declined to buy.

        The woman told Mason police she was gathering up the vacuum cleaner when Mr. Stair came from behind, grabbed her by the hips and ordered her to take off her shirt. When she refused, Mr. Stair pulled the shirt off and told her he could rape her if he wanted to, the Fairborn woman told police.

        The woman said Mr. Stair allowed her to leave when she told him her friends were waiting for her outside.

        Mason Officer Patrick Ellis testified Thursday that Mr. Stair spent seven years in a military prison on charges of rape and kidnapping for the incident in Hawaii.

        He also was convicted in 1992 in Marion County, Ga., for pulling a knife on a women who had given him a ride home. The woman escaped, and Mr. Stair was later convicted of aggravated assault, Officer Ellis said.

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