{"id":207651,"date":"2026-07-07T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207651"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:30:29","slug":"van-wert-police-blotter-6-28-7-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/07\/van-wert-police-blotter-6-28-7-5-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Police blotter 6\/28-7\/5\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Sunday, June 28 \u2013 Jose Luis Villegas Salazar was arrested for OVI, no operator\u2019s license, failing to obey traffic control devices, turn and stop signals, and open container after a stop at E. Main St. and N. Wayne St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, June 28 \u2013 a criminal trespassing report was taken in the 300 block of South Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, June 29 \u2013 a theft report was taken in the 300 block of South Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, June 29 \u2013 a criminal mischief report was taken in the 500 block of Burt St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, June 29 \u2013 a domestic violence report was taken for an incident that occurred in the 100 block of E. Crawford St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, June 29 \u2013 a criminal trespassing report was taken in the 700 block of Glenn St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, June 29 \u2013 an officer took a theft report in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, June 30 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted in the 300 block of N. Cherry St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, June 30 \u2013 officers arrested Tyrone Cowdrick for domestic violence. In the same incident, Christopher Frank was arrested on a warrant in the 200 block of N. Race St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, June 30 \u2013 a vehicle was removed from a residence in the 500 block of S. Tyler St. due to a city ordinance violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, June 30 \u2013 an assault report was taken in the 1200 block of Lincoln Highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, July 1 \u2013 trespassing was reported in the 600 block of N. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, July 1 \u2013 a report was taken for a traffic violation in the 600 block of N. Market St. in which the suspect\u2019s vehicle had fled the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, July 1 \u2013 an officer took a telephone harassment report in the 600 block of N. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, July 1 \u2013 a violation of a civil protection order occurred in the 1100 block of S. Shannon St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, July 2 \u2013 telecommunications harassment was reported in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, July 3 \u2013 an officer took an unruly juvenile report in the 200 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, July 3 \u2013 a report was made in reference to a possible domestic violence incident that occurred in the Biggby Coffee drive-thru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, July 3 \u2013 arrested Eric D. Bowers for theft in the 300 block of Towne Center Blvd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, July 3 \u2013 arrested Shirley E. Borton in the 100 block of N. Washington St. on a warrant from the Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, July 4 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted in the 1000 block of Park St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, July 4 \u2013 a single vehicle crash occurred in the 700 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, July 4 \u2013 a protection order violation was reported in the 300 block of E. Sycamore St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, July 4 \u2013 found property was turned into the police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday, July 5 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted in the 400 block of N. Race St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van Wert Police Sunday, June 28 \u2013 Jose Luis Villegas Salazar was arrested for OVI, no operator\u2019s license, failing to obey traffic control devices, turn and stop signals, and open container after a stop at E. Main St. and N. Wayne St. Sunday, June 28 \u2013 a criminal trespassing report was taken in the 300 […]<\/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-207651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawenforcement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 20:30:28","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\/207651","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=207651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207652,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207651\/revisions\/207652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}