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May
Court Filing Delay Kept Tecumseh School Bus Driver Accused Of Sex Crimes On The Job
By: Barry Mangold
TECUMSEH, Oklahoma – A Tecumseh man charged with sex crimes involving a minor kept working as a local school bus driver during a 17-month delay in a court filing.
“I am not guilty,” Timothy Cansler, 60, told News 9 Monday night. Pottawatomie County District Attorney Allan Grubb’s office charged Cansler with two counts of child sexual abuse on Aug. 13, 2020.
The charges stem from an alleged 2016 incident and do not involve Cansler’s job as a bus driver for Tecumseh Public Schools.
Despite the charges being filed more than 18-months