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<\/a>Faith Busbey, 33, of Lima, pleaded not guilty to a charge of possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony, during an arraignment hearing held Wednesday. She was released on a personal surety bond and a pretrial conference was scheduled for 8 a.m. Wednesday, August 5.<\/p>\nTwo people also entered changes of plea during hearings held Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Carl Elston, 36, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to a charge of domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor (reduced from a fourth-degree felony). A presentence investigation was ordered in the case and sentencing scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, September 9.<\/p>\n
Ryan Shields, 29, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to one count of failure to register as a sex offender, a felony of the fourth degree. A presentence investigation was also ordered in Shields\u2019 case and he will appear for sentencing at 9 a.m. September 9.<\/p>\n
Drew Kenny, 22, of Van Wert, admitted to violating his probation by failing to take drug test when requested. A pretrial conference was scheduled for 8 a.m. August 5.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Busbey, 35, of Lima, admitted he violated his probation by failing to report to probation after being released from jail. He was released on a surety bond and ordered to report to probation immediately. A pretrial conference was also scheduled for 8 a.m. August 5.<\/p>\n
Brett Fortney, 29, of Van Wert, requested a polygraph examination and also waived his right to a speedy trial. Judge Burchfield will schedule a status conference in the case in two months.<\/p>\n
Shane Harter, 35, of Delphos, admitted to violating his probation by not reporting to probation, but denied a second violation for not maintaining his job.<\/p>\n
Judge Taylor continued the case to gather more information on Harter\u2019s employment situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Six people appeared before Judge Martin Burchfield in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, while Probate-Juvenile Judge Kevin Taylor also heard one case on Wednesday. Faith Busbey, 33, of Lima, pleaded not guilty to a charge of possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony, during an arraignment hearing held Wednesday. She […]<\/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-66383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 11:58:15","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\/66383","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=66383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}