{"id":192421,"date":"2025-05-02T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192421"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:33:17","slug":"man-facing-manslaughter-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/02\/man-facing-manslaughter-drug-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Man facing manslaughter, drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Joshua-Sargent-5-2-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192423\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joshua Sargent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A Van Wert man sentenced to prison earlier this week for domestic violence is now facing two new high level felony charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a daily report from the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies served Joshua D. Sargent, 43, with a warrant charging him with involuntary manslaughter, a first degree felony, and corrupting another with drugs, a second degree felony. The warrants were served Thursday at the Van Wert County Correctional Facility. No other information has been released on the latest charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, Van Wert County Common Pleas Court Judge Martin D. Burchfield sentenced Sargent to 18 months in prison for domestic violence, a third degree felony. He was given credit for 87 days already served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A Van Wert man sentenced to prison earlier this week for domestic violence is now facing two new high level felony charges. According to a daily report from the Van Wert County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies served Joshua D. Sargent, 43, with a warrant charging him with involuntary manslaughter, a first degree felony, [&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-192421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 21:04:29","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\/192421","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=192421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192426,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192421\/revisions\/192426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}