SAGINAW, MI -- A former Republican candidate for a Michigan House seat who has told police he has a sexual fetish involving Saginaw County government vehicles, is facing charges again related to what he calls "cranking."

Jordan Haskins, who was a 2014 contender for the 95th District seat, was arraigned by District Court Judge Terry Clark on Dec. 8 on charges of unlawfully driving away an automobile and malicious destruction of property.

The offenses occurred Nov. 20, according to Saginaw County Sheriff Department Lt. Mike Gomez.

Haskins was spotted by some deputies leaving a county-owned garage, Gomez said. Deputies questioned Haskins and let him go. However, when employees of the garage returned to work, they noticed that a vehicle had been moved and there was some damage to it, Gomez said.

Jordan Haskins speaks against a LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance during the personal appearances section of the Saginaw City Council meeting, Monday, April 7, 2014. Haskins is the lone Republican candidate running in November for the 95th State House District seat being vacated by State Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes.

The arrest warrant stated that the vehicle was a maintenance truck.

Haskins' criminal past includes incidents involving a fetish he called "cranking." He has described it as removing vehicle spark plug wires to make the vehicle run rough to help a person reach sexual self-gratification.

Gomez said he believes that is what Haskins was doing in the county-owned vehicle last month.

"Cranking" past

In previous interviews with police, Haskins said he would break into vehicles start them and facilitate his sexual fetish. Haskins called the fetish "cranking" in interviews with police.

Haskins' criminal charges stem from trespassing on private and public property in four cases from April 2010 to January 2011, when he was sent to prison.

Haskins also lived in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2006 to 2010, where he left behind a criminal past.

North Carolina's Department of Public Safety reports a lengthy list of sentences to prison, county jail and probation for offenses Haskins committed in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The offenses include breaking and entering, larceny and trespassing.

Here is a list of other run-ins Haskin has had with the law:

Misdemeanor charges of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and malicious destruction of property in separate incidents in both March and April 2010 at the Saginaw County Mosquito Control property at 211 Congress in Saginaw. According to that incident report, Haskins again said that he damaged county vehicles by pulling spark plug wires to "masturbate while cranking the engine." Deputies said he told them the act is a sexual fetish he learned about online.

Haskins said he jumped a fence at the city of Saginaw's parking lot at 1435 S. Washington on Jan. 7, 2011. He told sheriff's deputies in a later interview that he went joyriding in the parking lot and masturbated in a city police cruiser and a city pickup, according to reports.

On Jan. 24, 2011, according to police reports, Haskins jumped a chain-link fence and opened a garage door at Scientific Brake, 314 W. Genesee. Then he drove a truck on the grounds, he told police. Again, police reports state he admitted to "listening to the engine idle and masturbating."

The charges in the Jan. 7, 2011, incident were dismissed as part of a plea agreement in the Scientific Brake case. Haskins pleaded no contest in September 2011 to counts of breaking and entering a building with intent, unlawful driving away of an automobile and malicious destruction of personal property. Haskins was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison and was ordered to pay $10,430 in restitution.

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April 2010 incident at 211 Congress in Saginaw (Saginaw County Mosquito Control)

October 2010 incident at 211 Congress in Saginaw (Saginaw County Mosquito Control)

January 2011 incident at 1435 S. Washington in Saginaw (City of Saginaw Public Services lot)

Second January 2011 incident at 314 W. Genesee in Saginaw (Scientific Brake and Equipment)

Haskin's bond was set at $10,000, which has been posted. He returns to Clark's courtroom at 3 p.m. on Dec. 22 for a preliminary hearing.