{"id":208958,"date":"2026-08-17T06:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208958"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:32:38","slug":"van-wert-police-blotter-8-9-8-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/17\/van-wert-police-blotter-8-9-8-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Police blotter 8\/9-8\/15\/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, August 9 \u2013 criminal mischief was investigated in the 100 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 9 \u2013 a citation was issued in the 700 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 9 \u2013 officers conducted a welfare check in the 1000 block of Shawnee Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, August 10 \u2013 a domestic violence incident was reported in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, August 11 \u2013 a hit-skip crash occurred in the 100 block of E. Main St. The driver was located and cited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 12 \u2013 elder abuse was reported in the 1000 block of Mayfair St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 12 \u2013 a welfare check was conducted in the 900 block of S. Shannon St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 12 \u2013 arrested Michael Whisman on an outstanding warrant from Van Wert Municipal Court. The arrest was made in the 200 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, August 13 \u2013 a unspecified report was taken at the police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, August 13 \u2013 arrested Malcolm T. Oliver on a commitment warrant for bond issued by Van Wert Municipal Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, August 13 \u2013 an animal complaint was taken in the 300 block of N. Franklin St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, August 13 \u2013 a protection order violation was reported at the police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 14 \u2013 a single vehicle crash occurred at Burt and Cable St. The driver, Barbara Kirk, was cited for failure to control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 14 \u2013 arrested Jermaine W. Defore on a warrant while in the 100 block of E. First St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 14 \u2013 a hit-skip accident report was taken in the 200 block of N. Jefferson St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 14 \u2013 a fight was reported at the intersection of S. Walnut St. and Greenewald St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 14 \u2013 arrested Jason A. Tallman on a warrant while in the 200 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, August 15 \u2013 officers were dispatched to the 600 block of N. Franklin St. for a welfare check on a male.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Police Sunday, August 9 \u2013 criminal mischief was investigated in the 100 block of E. Main St. Sunday, August 9 \u2013 a citation was issued in the 700 block of N. Washington St. Sunday, August 9 \u2013 officers conducted a welfare check in the 1000 block of Shawnee Drive. Monday, August 10 \u2013 [&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-208958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawenforcement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-24 15:20:02","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\/208958","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=208958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208959,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208958\/revisions\/208959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}