{"id":70260,"date":"2015-11-25T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=70260"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:14:10","slug":"2-convicted-of-amvets-legion-break-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/11\/25\/2-convicted-of-amvets-legion-break-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"2 convicted of Amvets, Legion break-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n

Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach announced that suspects in break-ins at Middle Point Amvets Post 698 and Willshire American Legion Post 207 recently pleaded guilty to those offenses in Seneca County.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Riggenbach said Robert E. Tackett, 77, and Roger A. Hemry, 51, both of Lima, were each indicted in Seneca County on September 2 on 14-count indictments that included the offenses committed in Van Wert County, as well as a charge of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a felony of the second degree.<\/p>\n

\"Roger<\/a>
Roger Hemry<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Robert<\/a>
Robert Tackett<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Charges in the indictment included 11 counts of breaking and entering, as well as one count each of possession of criminal tools, safe cracking, and the engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity charge.<\/p>\n

Tackett was arrested August 16 in New Riegel after a police officer saw him breaking into the New Riegel Moose lodge.<\/p>\n

Seneca County Prosecuting Attorney Derek W. DeVine prosecuted the cases, which included break-ins in Hancock, Van Wert, Miami, Darke, Putnam, Allen, and Ottawa counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the crimes involved fraternal organizations, but there were a couple of small bars broken into as well,\u201d DeVine said.<\/p>\n

He added that Tackett has a long history of criminal activity, with felony convictions in at least seven Ohio counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Tackett was convicted of his first felony in 1958, and, despite numerous efforts at rehabilitation, has continued to engage in criminal activity,\u201d DeVine noted.<\/p>\n

DeVine noted that, while the break-ins were investigated by law enforcement in all the above counties, the Van Wert and Allen County sheriff\u2019s offices and Lima Police Department were essential in the coordination of the effort to end Tackett and Hemry\u2019s crime spree. Those departments successfully obtained a court order to place a GPS transponder on Hemry\u2019s vehicle, and on August 16 followed Hemry and Tackett from Lima to various locations in Findlay, and finally to New Riegel, where they were caught breaking into the Moose lodge.<\/p>\n

\u201cDetective Clark from Van Wert County brought me a binder with all of the information from every county ready to prosecute,\u201d DeVine said. \u201cHe and the other officers did an excellent job insuring that this crime spree came to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cooperation of numerous law enforcement agencies working together was key to the success of this case,\u201d said Sheriff Riggenbach.<\/p>\n

The Seneca County prosecutor added that it is important for people to understand that crime doesn\u2019t stop at a boundary on a map, and that good criminal investigation into activities like these \u201crequire dedicated effort from officers in many agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hemry pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to a total prison term of 59 months on October 26. Tackett also pleaded guilty on all charges on November 16, but has not yet been sentenced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hoping for a longer sentence for Mr. Tackett, based on all of his prior convictions,\u201d DeVine said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach announced that suspects in break-ins at Middle Point Amvets Post 698 and Willshire American Legion Post 207 recently pleaded guilty to those offenses in Seneca County. Sheriff Riggenbach said Robert E. Tackett, 77, and Roger A. Hemry, 51, both of Lima, were each indicted in […]<\/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-70260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 23:18:43","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\/70260","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=70260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}