{"id":201461,"date":"2026-01-12T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=201461"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:08:25","slug":"van-wert-police-blotter-1-4-1-10-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/12\/van-wert-police-blotter-1-4-1-10-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Police blotter 1\/4-1\/10\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Van Wert Police<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, January 4 \u2013 a report was taken in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd. after a welfare check was conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, January 4 \u2013 a report of criminal damaging was taken in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, January 5 \u2013 a traffic stop was conducted in the 500 block of E. Main St. and the driver was issued a citation for a traffic offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, January 5 \u2013 an assault report was taken in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, January 5 \u2013 officers handled a criminal damaging incident in the 1200 block of Lincoln Highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, January 5 \u2013 arrested James Jones for strangulation in the area of Main St. and Franklin St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, January 6 \u2013 an unruly juvenile report was taken in the 500 block of S. Vine St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, January 6 \u2013 a taffic stop was conducted in the 200 block of W. Main St. and the driver was issued a citation for a traffic offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, January 6 \u2013 officers took a report for a miscellaneous drug incident in the 100 block of Fox Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, January 6 \u2013 disorderly conduct was reported in the 500 block of N. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, January 7 \u2013 a criminal damaging report was taken in the 500 block of E. Main St. for an incident that occurred earlier in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, January 7 \u2013 a telecommunications harassment report was taken for an incident that occurred in the 900 block of S. Shannon St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, January 7 \u2013 officers were dispatched to the 200 block of W. Crawford St. for a distraught male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, January 8 \u2013 arrested Tyler A. Pessefall for domestic violence by threat after a welfare check in the 600 block of High St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, January 8 \u2013 a vehicle was removed from the street in the 100 block of E. Main St. due to a parking violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, January 8 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted at the intersection of Jefferson St. and Bonnewitz Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, January 9 \u2013 a criminal damaging report was taken in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, January 9 \u2013 a dispute was reported in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, January 9 \u2013 a private property crash was reported in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, January 10 \u2013 a report was made in reference to criminal damaging in the 800 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, January 10 \u2013 a two-vehicle non-injury crash occurred in the 600 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert Police Sunday, January 4 \u2013 a report was taken in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd. after a welfare check was conducted. Sunday, January 4 \u2013 a report of criminal damaging was taken in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd. Monday, January 5 \u2013 a traffic stop was conducted in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawenforcement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 14:38:05","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\/201461","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=201461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201462,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201461\/revisions\/201462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}