Delco GOP Sheriff Candidate Drops Out Of Race

By DVJ Editor, Delaware Valley Journal

June 23, 2021

The Delaware County Republican Committee will need to find a new candidate for sheriff.

After weeks of internet rumors about an alleged arrest in his past, GOP sheriff candidate Joshua K. Brown dropped out of the race last week.

Brown told Delaware Valley Journal that while the internet stories about him were untrue, he was in fact arrested on charges of sexual assault in 2005.

According to Brown, he was falsely accused by a fellow Rutgers student. A grand jury declined to indict him because he had a work-related alibi. Brown says was a member of an ambulance crew in Piscataway, N.J. and he was stopped on a highway to render aid to a motorist at the same time that the woman claimed that he assaulted her.

Brown is the founder and CEO of Icarus Aerospace, Inc. a company that teaches law enforcement agencies to use unmanned aircraft.

Brown was facing an uphill fight against incumbent Democrat Sheriff Jerry Sanders in a county where Republican candidates have struggled of late. Sanders, elected in 2018, is the first African-American and the first Democrat elected sheriff since 1934.

On Tuesday, both the Brown campaign’s website and Facebook page had been disabled.

Brown said he made the decision to leave the race to protect his family.

“The hatred and vitriol of politics, I’m not for that,” Brown said.

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