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<\/a>Dustin Hiser, 31, was sentenced by Van Wert County Probate-Juvenile Judge Kevin Taylor to 17 months in prison on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender, a felony of the fourth degree. Hiser pleaded guilty to the charge during a hearing held December 17.<\/p>\nDuring sentencing, Judge Taylor did give Hiser credit for 93 days already served.<\/p>\n
A second case was also heard by Judge Taylor.<\/p>\n
Bronson Pate, 33, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to a charge of aggravated trafficking in drugs, a felony of the fourth degree. A presentence investigation was ordered by Judge Taylor and sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.<\/p>\n
Four hearings were also presided over by retired Judge Charles D. Steele.<\/p>\n
William Crutchfield, 42, of Van Wert, denied charges he violated his community control probation by being unsuccessfully terminated from the Western Ohio Regional Treatment and Habilitation (WORTH) Center in Lima. A hearing in the case will be set for next week.<\/p>\n
Andrew Taylor, 29, of Van Wert, entered a plea of guilty to a prosecutor\u2019s bill of information charging him with two counts of possession of heroin, each a felony of the fifth degree.<\/p>\n
Dezmond Bywaters, 23, of Van Wert, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted failure to register as a sex offender, a felony of the fourth degree, reduced from failure to register as a sex offender, a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n
Kasey Schisler, 26, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to one count each of trafficking in drugs and trafficking in heroin, both felonies of the fifth-degree, and possession of heroin, a fourth-degree felony.<\/p>\n
Judge Steele ordered presentence investigations in all three cases and sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Six people appeared for a variety of hearings in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, including a Van Wert man sentenced to prison for failing to register as a sex offender. Dustin Hiser, 31, was sentenced by Van Wert County Probate-Juvenile Judge Kevin Taylor to 17 months in prison on […]<\/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-60281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:00:29","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\/60281","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=60281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}