{"id":74516,"date":"2016-03-17T08:23:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=74516"},"modified":"2016-03-17T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:23:40","slug":"4-appear-for-vw-common-pleas-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/03\/17\/4-appear-for-vw-common-pleas-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"4 appear for VW Common Pleas hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Four people appeared for hearings in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, including a Van Wert man given a prison term for trafficking in heroin.<\/p>\n<p>Jerad Caldwell, 29, was sentenced to nine months in prison on a charge of trafficking in heroin, a fifth-degree felony offense. Judge Martin Burchfield also gave Caldwell credit for 62 days already served, and he <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-45994\" title=\"MGN Online graphic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Court-artwork-12-2013-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Court artwork 12-2013 copy\" width=\"250\" height=\"193\" \/>was ordered to pay restitution if $80 to the West Central Ohio Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Two change of plea hearings were held in Common Pleas Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Elige Johnson, 55, of Van Wert, changed her plea to guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, a misdemeanor of the first degree (reduced from a third-degree felony count). A presentence investigation was ordered and sentencing scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 13.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Crawford, 27, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to one count of possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony offense. A presentence investigation was ordered and Crawford will appear for sentencing at 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Krick, 28, of Decatur, Indiana, was also in court, to sign a waiver of his constitutional right to a speedy trial. Krick also requested that his trial, originally scheduled for April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Four people appeared for hearings in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, including a Van Wert man given a prison term for trafficking in heroin. Jerad Caldwell, 29, was sentenced to nine months in prison on a charge of trafficking in heroin, a fifth-degree felony offense. Judge Martin Burchfield also [&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-74516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 05:22:26","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\/74516","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=74516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}