Letson to seek to replace Cafaro as state senator

WARREN — Less than a week after prosecutors agreed to drop a misdemeanor housing-code charge against him, former state Rep. Thomas Letson announced today he is running for State Senator for the 32nd District.

He says he’ll be on the ballot to replace Capri Cafaro of Hubbard, who was elected to the seat two times and is not able to run again because of term limits.

Letson, of Warren, served eight years as state representative for the 64th District but was not able to run again last year because of term limits. Michael O’Brien, former Warren mayor, was elected to fill the seat.

Letson, an attorney, was facing a housing code violation filed in 2013 relating to a sober house being operated out of a home he owns on Foster Street Northeast.

He was accused of violating the single-family zoning for the neighborhood by allowing such a facility to operate there. But an entry in the case at Warren Municipal Court says the city prosecutor’s office and Letson’s attorney filed a joint motion Wednesday asking for the charge to be dismissed.

Visiting Judge Barbara Watson has not yet ruled on the motion.