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By Lawrence Budd, Staff Writer Updated 4:27 PM Tuesday, February 2, 2010

LEBANON — A suburban Cincinnati man has been charged with bigamy for allegedly being married from March to June 2009 to women in both Ohio and Kentucky.

Cecil Lightfoot, 39, of Forest Park, was charged with bigamy and falsification in Lebanon Municipal Court.

On Monday, Feb. 1, police arrested Lightfoot when he appeared for an unrelated court hearing in Hamilton County Municipal Court, according to Monroe police Detective Doug Leist.

Lightfoot is accused of committing bigamy on March 28, 2009, by getting married at the Solid Rock Church, 904 Union Road in Monroe.

He was arrested on a warrant issued Sept. 17, from Lebanon Municipal Court.

Police said they sought the warrant after his first wife, a Kenton County, Ky. woman, said she married him on Feb. 28, 2008.

She said she learned of his marriage in Monroe while she was filing court papers to dissolve their marriage in March 2009, according to a police report.

The Kenton County marriage was dissolved on June 8, 2009, Leist said.

Leist said he has been unable to talk with Lightfoot but found records of both marriages, as well as an application by Lightfoot for a marriage license in Hamilton County.

“I just pieced everything together through the court records,” he said. “It is pretty rare.”

Lightfoot could not be reached for comment. He remains free on a $2,000 bond he posted at the Lebanon jail.

He is scheduled to appear Thursday, Feb. 4, on the misdemeanor charges in Lebanon Municipal Court.

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