{"id":141152,"date":"2021-03-17T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=141152"},"modified":"2021-03-17T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:07:27","slug":"2-arraigned-2-change-pleas-in-cp-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/17\/2-arraigned-2-change-pleas-in-cp-court\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arraigned, 2 change pleas in CP Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two people were arraigned on grand jury indictments and four people total appeared for criminal hearings during a light week in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron Joseph, 33, of Van Wert, pleaded not guilty to one count of grand theft-motor vehicle, a felony of the fourth degree. A $10,000 cash bond was set in the case and a telephone pretrial conference was scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Gavel-photo-9-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122204\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dwayne Watts, 34, of Van Wert, entered a not guilty plea to one count of possession of a Fentanyl-related compound, a felony of the fifth degree. Watts was released on an unsecured personal surety bond, with electronically monitored house arrest, and a telephone pretrial was set for 9:15 a.m. April 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two people also changed their pleas during hearings held this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shane Zartman, 35, of Convoy, changed his plea to guilty to one count of aggravated possession of drugs, a felony of the fifth degree. Judge Martin Burchfield then sentenced him to three years of community control, which will include maintain his employment, maintaining child support, undergoing a substance abuse assessment and any treatment recommended, and being prohibited from having illegal substances in his possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eunice Bernhardt, 57, of Ohio City, changed her plea to guilty to two counts of pandering obscenity, each a felony of the second degree, and one count of pandering obscenity involving a minor, a fourth-degree felony. Judge Burchfield ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for 10 a.m. Monday, April 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent staff Two people were arraigned on grand jury indictments and four people total appeared for criminal hearings during a light week in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Aaron Joseph, 33, of Van Wert, pleaded not guilty to one count of grand theft-motor vehicle, a felony of the fourth degree. A $10,000 [&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-141152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 01:55:03","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\/141152","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=141152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}