{"id":203836,"date":"2026-03-16T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203836"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:07:53","slug":"van-wert-police-blotter-3-9-3-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/16\/van-wert-police-blotter-3-9-3-14-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Police blotter 3\/9-3\/14\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c793a583857f98c1cf266d46ff919d33\"><strong>Van Wert Police<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, March 9 \u2013 an officer took a report for a miscellaneous incident in the 300 block of Frothingham St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, March 10 \u2013 arrested Dustin E. Barnes, 44, for OVI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, March 12 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 100 block of Blaine St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, March 12 \u2013 a non-criminal report was taken in the 1100 block of Kear Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, March 12 \u2013 arrested Kyle R. Leatherman for theft after an incident in the 800 block of Fox Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, March 12 \u2013 a drug offense report was taken in the 300 block of S. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, March 13 \u2013 a report was made in reference to animal abuse in the 300 block of S. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, March 13 \u2013 a vehicle was towed from the 200 block of S. Cherry St. due to a parking violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, March 13 \u2013 a non-criminal report was taken in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, March 13 \u2013 a juvenile was arrested for cirminal damaging in the 1200 block of Lincoln Highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, March 14 \u2013 fraud was reported in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, March 14 \u2013 arrested Kaden Ballard on an outstanding warrant issued by the Van Wert County Common Pleas Court Probation Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, March 14 \u2013 a report of trespassing was taken in the 700 block of Fox Rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, March 14 \u2013 arrested a juvenile, 17, for underage consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, March 14 \u2013 arrested John E. Toms for domestic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, March 15 \u2013 arrested David E. Krieg, 33, for disorderly conduct in the 700 block of George St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Police Monday, March 9 \u2013 an officer took a report for a miscellaneous incident in the 300 block of Frothingham St. Tuesday, March 10 \u2013 arrested Dustin E. Barnes, 44, for OVI. Thursday, March 12 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 100 block of Blaine St. Thursday, March 12 \u2013 a non-criminal [&hellip;]<\/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-203836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawenforcement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 15:45:49","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\/203836","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=203836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203837,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203836\/revisions\/203837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}