{"id":209230,"date":"2026-08-24T06:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=209230"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:29:02","slug":"van-wert-police-blotter-8-16-8-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/24\/van-wert-police-blotter-8-16-8-23-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert Police blotter 8\/16-8\/23\/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 16 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 1000 block of Prospect Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 16 \u2013 arrested Dwayne Watts for domestic violence in the 100 block of E. Crawford St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 16 \u2013 a domestic dispute report was taken in the 200 block of N. Wayne St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 16 \u2013 a telephone harassment report was taken in the 400 block of S. Franklin St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 16 \u2013 officers checked on the welfare of a male in the 700 block of E. Sycamore St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, August 18 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 100 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, August 18 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 800 block of N. Washington St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, August 18 \u2013 arrested Cyle Black for a probation violation while in the 600 block of E. Crawford St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, August 18 \u2013 a report was taken for a theft in the 900 block of S. Shannon St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 19 \u2013 a domestic violence incident was reported in the 1000 block of Prospect Ave. After an investigation, no charges were filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 19 \u2013 officers took a report of aggravated menacing in the 1100 block of Bell Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 19 \u2013 officers took a report of menacing in the 200 block of N. Market St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, August 19 \u2013 a trespassing incident was reported in the 1000 block of Prospect Ave. After an investigation no charges were filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, August 20 \u2013 officers took a report of a hit-skip that occurred in the 300 block of W. Crawford St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, August 20 \u2013 a telecommunications harassment report was taken in the 300 block of N. Race St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, August 20 \u2013 arrested Amy Davis for domestic violence in the 400 block of Shaffer St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 21 \u2013 a telephone harassment report was taken in the 1100 block of Bell Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 21 \u2013 items were dropped off at the police department to be destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, August 21 \u2013 arrested Riley Mittie on an outstanding warrant and for underage consumption in the 500 block of E. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 23 \u2013 officers took a fraud report in the 800 block of Allingham St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 23 \u2013 a theft report was taken at the police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, August 23 \u2013 a criminal damaging report was taken at the police department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Police Sunday, August 16 \u2013 a theft was reported in the 1000 block of Prospect Ave. Sunday, August 16 \u2013 arrested Dwayne Watts for domestic violence in the 100 block of E. Crawford St. Sunday, August 16 \u2013 a domestic dispute report was taken in the 200 block of N. Wayne St. Sunday, [&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-209230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawenforcement"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 14:08:33","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\/209230","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=209230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209231,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209230\/revisions\/209231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}