{"id":40764,"date":"2013-07-16T06:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=40764"},"modified":"2013-07-16T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:30:40","slug":"man-given-prison-term-on-drug-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/07\/16\/man-given-prison-term-on-drug-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Man given prison term on drug count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40767\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CP-Court-12-12-12-Matt-Brown.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40767  \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CP-Court-12-12-12-Matt-Brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Brown (VW independent file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Van Wert man was sent to prison on Monday during a sentencing hearing in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Brown, 52, was sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of possession of drugs, a felony of the first degree. Judge Charles D. Steele also gave Brown credit for 28 days already served on the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Brown was also ordered to pay a mandatory fine of $10,000 plus court costs, and a 2001 Oldsmobile that was used in commission of the crime was ordered forfeited to the arresting agency.<\/p>\n<p>The court also denied a defense motion to delay the sentencing for medical treatment for Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent A Van Wert man was sent to prison on Monday during a sentencing hearing in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Matt Brown, 52, was sentenced to five years in prison on a charge of possession of drugs, a felony of the first degree. Judge Charles D. Steele also gave Brown credit [&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-40764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 12:15:34","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\/40764","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=40764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}