{"id":202775,"date":"2026-02-17T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202775"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:33:52","slug":"van-wert-police-blotter-2-8-2-16-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/17\/van-wert-police-blotter-2-8-2-16-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Police blotter 2\/8-2\/16\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Sunday, February 8 \u2013 a parking violation was reported in the 600 block of N. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, February 8 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted in the 100 block of S. Cherry St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 9 \u2013 a vehicle was towed from the 100 block of N. Tyler St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 9 \u2013 officers arrested a juvenile for assault and criminal damaging in the 1200 block of Lincoln Highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 9 \u2013 a report was taken for a theft that occurred in the 400 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, February 10 \u2013 a theft report was taken while in the 700 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, February 10 \u2013 a parking ticket was issued in the 400 block of N. Cherry St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, February 10 \u2013 a parking ticket was issued in the 400 block of N. Cherry St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, February 10 \u2013 arrested Rickie Lynn Welker on an outstanding warrant from Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. The arrest was made in the 900 block of S. Shannon St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, February 10 \u2013 arrested Colby Black on an outstanding warrant from Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. The arrest was made in the 100 block of Woodstock Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, February 11 \u2013 arrested Mairis Savickis for OVI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, February 11 \u2013 a city ordinance violation report was taken in the 200 block of W. Fourth St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, February 11 \u2013 arrested James Robert Jewel on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant from Van Wert Municipal Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, February 11 \u2013 a telephone harassment report was taken in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 12 \u2013 a domestic dispute was reported in the 800 block of W. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 12 \u2013 a parking ticket was issued in the 600 block of Spencer St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 12 \u2013 a parking ticket was issued in the 100 block of S. Wall St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 12 \u2013 menacing was reported in the 10000 block of Ohio 118.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, February 12 \u2013 a fraud report was taken in the 800 block of Allingham St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, February 13 \u2013 a report was made in reference to telephone harassment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, February 13 \u2013 a  hit-skip crash was reported at the intersection of John Brown Rd. and Leeson Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, February 13 \u2013 an unruly juvenile was reported in the 100 block of E. First St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, February 13 \u2013 a theft was reported from Walmart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday,  February 14 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted in the 100 block of S. Franklin St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, February 14 \u2013 charged Gregory Jepsen with disorderly conduct in the 1000 block of S. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, February 15 \u2013 telecommunications harassment was reported in the 100 block of S. Wall St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 16 \u2013 a miscellaneous drug offense was reported in the 800 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, February 16 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 600 block of N. Franklin St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert Police Sunday, February 8 \u2013 a parking violation was reported in the 600 block of N. Market St. Sunday, February 8 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted in the 100 block of S. Cherry St. Monday, February 9 \u2013 a vehicle was towed from the 100 block of N. Tyler St. Monday, February […]<\/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-202775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawenforcement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 15:52:16","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\/202775","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=202775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202776,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202775\/revisions\/202776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}