“I have enjoyed my time on the Board and getting to work with you. Unfortunately my battle with Parkinson’s disease and the resulting depression which I am being treated for, make my continued involvement impossible at this time,” Startzman wrote in a letter Tuesday to ADAMHS Executive Director Helen Jones-Kelley.
Montgomery County commissioners will appoint a replacement for Startzman to the board next week, according to county officials.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office on Monday announced Startzman was among more than 100 people across Ohio — including about a dozen locally — arrested as part of a statewide human trafficking operation.
Startzman on Thursday entered a not guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge. A trial date is not set. A message left for Startzman’s attorney was not immediately returned.
Prior to his service on the ADAMHS board, Startzman was a prosecutor, magistrate and court administrator.
Also charged with soliciting in the statewide sting was Charles Arnold, a chief fire inspector for the Ohio Department of Commerce. Arnold has also entered a plea of not guilty.
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