{"id":205076,"date":"2026-04-20T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205076"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:45:28","slug":"van-wert-police-blotter-4-12-4-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/20\/van-wert-police-blotter-4-12-4-18-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Police blotter 4\/12-4\/18\/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>Sunday, April 12 \u2013 a theft report was taken on April 15 in the 800 block of Fox Road for an incident that occurred on April 12; investigation pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, April 13 \u2013 law enforcement was called to the 1200 block of Lincoln Highway for criminal damaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, April 14 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 1100 block of S. Washington St.; case under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, April 14 \u2013 a domestic violence report was taken in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, April 14 \u2013 criminal damaging was reported at The Marsh Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, April 15 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 200 block on N. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, April 15 \u2013 four parking violation tickets were issued in the 1000 block of George St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, April 15 \u2013 Alisha Stemen was arrested on an outstanding warrant in the 200 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, April 16 \u2013 a vehicle was removed from a residence in the 600 block of State St. due to a Van Wert City ordinance violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, April 16 \u2013 a vehicle was removed from a residence in the 100 block of Blaine St. due to a Van Wert City ordinance violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, April 16, a domestic violation dispute report was taken in the 200 block of W. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, April 16 \u2013 a telephone harassment report was taken in the 500 block of South Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, April 17 \u2013 a two-vehicle non-injury crash occurred at Towne Center Blvd. and Christopher Crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, April 18 \u2013 a theft report was taken while in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd. and Matthew Laing was charged with theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Police Sunday, April 12 \u2013 a theft report was taken on April 15 in the 800 block of Fox Road for an incident that occurred on April 12; investigation pending. Monday, April 13 \u2013 law enforcement was called to the 1200 block of Lincoln Highway for criminal damaging. Tuesday, April 14 \u2013 a [&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-205076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawenforcement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 00:44:54","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\/205076","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=205076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205079,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205076\/revisions\/205079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}