{"id":13703,"date":"2011-09-16T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2011-09-16T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T04:35:07","slug":"secret-service-honors-city-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/secret-service-honors-city-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service honors city police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13704\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13704 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/VWPD-Jeff-Mike-with-awards-9-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VWPD Detective Sgt. Jeff Blackmore and Officer Mike Freeman hold plaques they received from the U.S. Secret Service for assisting with a child pornography case. (VWPD photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department is pleased to announce that two members of the department recently received an award for their role in a child pornography sting and investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sgt. Jeffrey A. Blackmore and Officer Michael D. Freeman received the award from the U.S. Secret Service during a ceremony held at the Van Wert Municipal Building.<\/p>\n<p>The sting and investigation resulted in Ronald K.\u00a0Burtis, 35, of St. Paul, Minn., being indicted by a federal grand jury in Toledo on charges of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2010, Burtis pleaded guilty to federal charges of possession of child pornography (18 USC 2252(A)(5)(b)) and distribution of child pornography (18 USC 2252 (A)(2)(a)).<\/p>\n<p>On February 28, Burtis was sentenced to 12\u00bd years in a federal penitentiary and will face an additional 10 years of parole after his release from prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent The Van Wert Police Department is pleased to announce that two members of the department recently received an award for their role in a child pornography sting and investigation. Detective Sgt. Jeffrey A. Blackmore and Officer Michael D. Freeman received the award from the U.S. Secret Service during a ceremony held at [&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-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 22:44:19","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\/13703","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=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}