LAKE PLACID — State Police have again charged a Clintonville man with violating an order of protection and endangering the welfare of a child after a Jan. 10 domestic dispute in Lake Placid.

On Tuesday, State Police charged Matthew A. Sears, 30, formerly of Lake Placid with first-degree criminal contempt, physical contact, and aggravated family offense, both felonies; two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and fourth-degree criminal mischief, damaging property, both misdemeanors; and second-degree harassment, a violation.

“Sears engaged in a domestic dispute in which he damaged property and violated an active ‘stay away’ order of protection, all in the presence of two children,” police alleged in a statement.

Police said a warrant for his arrest was issued by North Elba Town Court on Jan. 14. He was located Tuesday in Lake Placid and taken into custody. Sears was arraigned in the Town of North Elba Court and remanded to the Essex County Jail with no bail for his charges and for his protection order violation.

In November 2020 Sears was charged with a felony and misdemeanors after he allegedly violated an order of protection by breaking into a residence through a window and threatening harm to a female victim in the presence of her two small children.

In November 2019 Sears was charged with a felony and misdemeanors for allegedly throwing a door at a 3-year-old and a woman. Neither of them was injured.

In 2016 Sears was charged with allegedly burglarizing a Lake Placid business of $3,000 worth of items. In the course of this investigation police also charged him with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, after they allegedly found a .22-caliber rifle in his home during a search after the arrest. Sears, then a convicted felon, could not legally own a firearm.