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LEBANON – A judge is issuing a warrant for the arrest of Curtis E. Sears, a Lebanon man who is tied for Ohio’s worst drunken-driving record, after Sears failed to show up today for a court hearing on charges of speeding and driving under suspension.

Municipal Judge Mark Bogen was preparing the order for Sears, 48.

Sears has 19 drunken-driving convictions and 31 suspensions on his Ohio driving record. So he wasn’t supposed to be behind the wheel on June 22, when a Monroe police sergeant accused him of driving 66 mph in a 35-mph zone along Greentree Road at Interstate 75.

That accusation came 10 months after Sears was released from an Ohio prison. He had served almost three years behind bars for Warren County drunken-driving and theft convictions, state prison officials said.

Their records also indicate Sears spent six months in prison from 1989-90 on a Montgomery County escape charge.

The followig appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer and can be found at: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060706/NEWS01/307060021