{"id":63134,"date":"2015-04-23T06:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=63134"},"modified":"2015-04-23T06:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T11:24:05","slug":"9-people-appear-in-common-pleas-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/04\/23\/9-people-appear-in-common-pleas-court\/","title":{"rendered":"9 people appear in Common Pleas Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/<\/b>independent editor<\/i><\/p>\n

A total of nine people appeared for a variety of hearings Wednesday in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n

Judge Martin Burchfield presided over four changes of plea and a bond hearing, while Probate-Juvenile Court Judge Kevin Taylor presided over four hearings, including two sentencings.<\/p>\n

Charles Myers IV, 34, of Van Wert, was given three years of community control on one count each of possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, and drug possession, a misdemeanor of the first degree.<\/p>\n

\"Court<\/a>Myers must also participate in drug court and has his driver\u2019s license suspended for six months.<\/p>\n

Robin Higginbotham, 51, of Van Wert, was given one year of community control on a charge of attempted aggravated possession of drugs, a misdemeanor of the first degree.<\/p>\n

Those entering plea changes are as follows:<\/p>\n

Tyler Lovette, 21, of Maria Stein, changed his plea to guilty to a charge of attempted importuning, a misdemeanor of the first degree (reduced from importuning, a fifth-degree felony). Two other similar charges were dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea.<\/p>\n

Brady Etzler, 25, of Van Wert, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated trespass, a misdemeanor of the first degree.<\/p>\n

Brandon Barnes, 33, of Van Wert, entered a guilty plea to a charge of possession of heroin, a felony of the fifth degree. A second count of the same offense was dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea.<\/p>\n

Steven Diltz, 30, of Delphos, changed his plea to guilty to two counts of breaking and entering, each a felony of the fifth degree.<\/p>\n

A presentence investigation was ordered in all four cases and sentencing was scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 27, for each of the four defendants.<\/p>\n

Paul Grandsko, 39, of Toledo, entered a guilty plea to an amended charge of theft, a felony of the fifth degree (reduced from aggravated theft, a third-degree felony). Judge Taylor then scheduled a hearing for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 6, on Grandsko\u2019s motion for treatment in lieu of conviction.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Comment, 26, of Preble, Indiana, signed a time waiver as part of his request for a continuance of his case, which was scheduled for May 11. Judge Taylor granted the request and set a pretrial conference for 8 a.m. May 6.<\/p>\n

Melissa Frasl, 34, of Delphos, was released from jail on a personal surety bond on the condition she have her medication supervised on a daily basis. A pretrial conference was also scheduled for 8 a.m. Friday, May 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor A total of nine people appeared for a variety of hearings Wednesday in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Judge Martin Burchfield presided over four changes of plea and a bond hearing, while Probate-Juvenile Court Judge Kevin Taylor presided over four hearings, including two sentencings. Charles Myers IV, 34, of Van Wert, […]<\/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-63134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 13:55:45","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\/63134","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=63134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}