{"id":75358,"date":"2016-04-14T07:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=75358"},"modified":"2016-04-14T07:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T12:04:50","slug":"1-sentenced-4-appear-in-county-cp-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/04\/14\/1-sentenced-4-appear-in-county-cp-court\/","title":{"rendered":"1 sentenced, 4 appear in County CP Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Four people appeared in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, including a Van Wert man sentenced on a drunk driving charge.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Martin Burchfield sentenced Elige Johnson, 55, to two years of community control, including 60 days in jail, and his license was suspended for three years, on a charge of operating a vehicle while under the influence, a misdemeanor of the first degree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Court-artwork-12-2013-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45994\"><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\" \/><\/a>Johnson also had to pay a fine of $375, plus restitution to Mary Jane Schweller totaling $500, and had to undergo substance abuse assessment and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Levar Reed, 19, of Atlanta, Georgia, changed his plea to guilty to a charge of attempted tampering with evidence, a felony of the fourth degree (reduced from tampering with evidence, a felony of the third degree). A second count of trafficking in marijuana was also dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Burchfield ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Keller, 49, of Delphos, also appeared in court to request additional time to retain an attorney. Judge Burchfield granted the request and continued Keller\u2019s pretrial conference until 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 4.<\/p>\n<p>County Probate-Juvenile Court Judge Kevin Taylor also presided over a probation violation hearing for Joshua Sargent, 34, of Van Wert. Following the hearing, Judge Taylor took the matter under advisement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent Four people appeared in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, including a Van Wert man sentenced on a drunk driving charge. Judge Martin Burchfield sentenced Elige Johnson, 55, to two years of community control, including 60 days in jail, and his license was suspended for three years, on a charge [&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-75358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 18:50:02","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\/75358","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=75358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}