{"id":204874,"date":"2026-04-14T20:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=204874"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T01:37:50","slug":"lima-man-facing-a-bribery-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/14\/lima-man-facing-a-bribery-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lima man facing a bribery charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; A Lima man has been\u00a0indicted\u00a0by an Allen County grand jury on a bribery charge stemming from his recent illegal-dumping case, according to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brady Schroeder, who was convicted in December of a misdemeanor count of illegal disposal of construction and demolition debris, now faces one count of bribery, a third-degree felony that typically carries a prison sentence of nine to 36 months.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Auditor-of-State-Dave-Yost-headshot-1-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97432\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dave Yost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Schroeder\u2019s case was prosecuted by the Ohio Attorney General\u2019s Office in Lima Municipal Court. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 100 hours of community service, fined $750, and ordered to complete full remediation of the dump site subject to the approval of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The court suspended 60 days of the jail sentence pending the site remediation. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent indictment alleges that, after Schroeder\u2019s conviction but before sentencing, the defendant was seen on a Ring doorbell camera offering a job to a state\u2019s witness and to pay the witness\u2019s outstanding driver\u2019s license fees in exchange for favorable testimony. The offer was reiterated later via text message, the indictment says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the incident, the witness contacted the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Ohio EPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indictments are criminal allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless proved guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; A Lima man has been\u00a0indicted\u00a0by an Allen County grand jury on a bribery charge stemming from his recent illegal-dumping case, according to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced today. Brady Schroeder, who was convicted in December of a misdemeanor count of illegal disposal of construction and demolition debris, now [&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-204874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 17:05:47","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\/204874","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=204874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204896,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204874\/revisions\/204896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}