UNION TOWNSHIP — A convicted sexual predator, whose move to a Clermont County neighborhood sparked a campaign to change state law, has been charged with soliciting sex from a teen-age clerk at a grocery store.

        Bond was set at $25,000 Wednesday for David Tyler, 44, on a charge of importuning. The alleged offense occurred less than two months after his Miami Township neighbors were notified he had moved into their neighborhood.

        Mr. Tyler, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, was already being held at the Clermont County Jail on an unrelated parole violation. A parole hearing Monday was canceled because of the new charge.

        Mr. Tyler's case was continued to May 7 in Clermont County Municipal Court. The charge is a first-degree misdemeanor.

        Union Township Police Sgt. Michael McMillan said Mr. Tyler had been shopping at the Cherry Grove Kroger on Ohio Pike when he passed a note to a young male cashier March 1.

        “It's a note basically soliciting sex from this boy,” Sgt. McMillan said.

        He said the note contained a phone number and name, and police tracked down the phone number to Mr. Tyler.

        Mr. Tyler was picked up on the parole violation charge March 13. Andrea Dean, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said the parole violation involved stalking a minor, but did not have details.

        Mr. Tyler, who had served 18 years in prison for a rape conviction involving a minor, had moved onto Carpenter Road in Miami Township in January.

        His presence led his neighbors to organize a petition drive to change state law involving sex offenders who are adjudged by the court to be sexual predators.

        Bob Harris, one of the organizers, said they are pressing forto allow for civil commitment, which would institutionalize sexual predators for treatment once they've served their prison sentences.

        “We were vigilant in our neighborhood, and that forced him to go elsewhere,” said Mr. Harris. “A neighborhood that watches out is only going to force somebody who is going to reoffend into somebody else's neighborhood.”

        Mr. Tyler was adjudged a sexual predator by Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Ann Marie Tracey in November 2000. A psychologist's report then indicated that Mr. Tyler was “at risk to reoffend.”

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