An Olympic bicycling gold medalist winner, and former chair of the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners and GOP Congressional candidate, has been charged with stalking.

Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin and Pennsylvania State Police Troop M. Capt. Derek A. Koch announced the charges Wednesday against Martin Nothstein, 50, of Orefield.

The incidents, which occurred between December 2020 and November 2021, constitutes an ongoing pattern of the stalking of both victims, harassment and damage to personal property, according to the affidavit of probable cause filed by lead investigator, Cpl. Christopher Yaworksi of the Pennsylvania State Police, Troop M, Fogelsville station.

Court papers say in one instance, on March 22, Nothstein entered a woman’s home without her consent and attempted to access her Apple account. Nothstein later admitted that he had entered her home.

During the course of the investigation, Nothstein’s phone records were obtained through a search warrant. Analysis of those records by the Regional Intelligence and Investigation Center place Nothstein’s two cellphones near the home at the time of the alleged incidents.

Nothstein has been charged with two counts each of stalking and defiant trespass, and one count of criminal trespass.

He was taken into custody Tuesday evening and arraigned at Central Booking, where bail was set at $25,000 unsecured, and Nothstein will be supervised by Lehigh Valley Pretrial Services.

Nothstein was ordered to have no contact with the female acquaintance, and a man in a relationship with the woman.