{"id":107338,"date":"2018-09-21T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T11:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=107338"},"modified":"2018-09-21T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T11:36:59","slug":"pcso-probing-home-invasion-dead-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/09\/21\/pcso-probing-home-invasion-dead-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiance man arrested on murder charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CECIL &#8212; The Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested a suspect in the murder of a Cecil area homeowner that occurred Thursday afternoon at his residence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107350\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Michael-Loop-mugshot-9-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"293\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Michael Kent Loop<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael Kent Loop, 32, of Defiance, has been arrested and is currently being housed in the Paulding County Jail on a charge of murder, an unclassified felony.<\/p>\n<p>Loop is charged with the death of Cecil area resident Philip V. Koenn, 60, of 11243 Road 230 in Cecil. Koenn\u2019s body was found inside his residence with apparent gunshot wounds. Koenn was the only person living at the residence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a violent crime,\u201d said Paulding County Sheriff Jason K. Landers. \u201cWe were fortunate some early tips came in leading us to Mr. Loop. We are not done; we believe more people could be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff did note, however, that an earlier witness statement that two people fled the residence was inaccurate, with witnesses actually seeing only one person leave the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, deputies continue to investigate tips coming into the sheriff\u2019s office regarding the incident, which brought deputies to the scene at approximately 12:28 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Several agencies were involved in the investigation. In addition to the Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office, agencies included the Defiance County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Defiance Police Department, Ohio State Highway Patrol, Defiance County Adult Probation, Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation\u2019s Crime Scene Unit, and the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>No further information is expected to be released at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the homicide is still urged to call the Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 419.399.3791 or go on the sheriff\u2019s office website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauldingohsheriff.com\/\">www.pauldingohsheriff.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information CECIL &#8212; The Paulding County Sheriff\u2019s Office has arrested a suspect in the murder of a Cecil area homeowner that occurred Thursday afternoon at his residence. Michael Kent Loop, 32, of Defiance, has been arrested and is currently being housed in the Paulding County Jail on a charge of murder, an unclassified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 01:16:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}