COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The father of a woman who filed a sexual harassment complaint against a manager in Attorney General Marc Dann's office says she was set up on a marijuana possession charge during a traffic stop.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that 26-year-old Vanessa Stout also was charged with driving with expired license tags and a suspended driver's license during a traffic stop on Interstate 71 in Morrow County on March 12th.

The traffic stop occurred just days after Stout and another employee in Dann's office filed a harassment complaint against 50-year-old Anthony Gutierrez Dann's director of general services who was placed on paid leave last week as the investigation evolved.

Dann spokesman Ted Hart told the newspaper he couldn't say whether the arrest would affect the ongoing investigation.

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