{"id":88591,"date":"2017-06-01T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=88591"},"modified":"2017-06-01T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T12:29:46","slug":"2-get-prison-terms-on-drug-other-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/06\/01\/2-get-prison-terms-on-drug-other-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"2 get prison terms on drug, other counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two people were given prison sentences on drug-related charges during hearings held Wednesday in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Phinney, 32, of Delphos, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on a charge of having a weapon under disability, a felony of the third degree, and 12 months in prison each on charges of trafficking in marijuana and possession of marijuana, both fifth-degree felonies. Judge Martin D. Burchfield ordered that all three sentences be served concurrently, meaning Phinney will serve a maximum of 24 months in prison on the criminal counts.<\/p>\n<p>He was also charged with a specification that he used $1,530 in cash in the commission of the crimes, and that money was ordered forfeited to the West Central Ohio Crime Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Schlatman, 35, of Van Wert, was sentenced to 13 months in prison on a charge of aggravated trafficking in drugs, a felony of the fourth degree, and 12 months each on charges of trafficking in marijuana, a fifth-degree felony, and trafficking in marijuana, a felony of the fourth degree.<\/p>\n<p>All three sentences will be served concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>Two changes of plea were also accepted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cody McGinnis, 33, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to one count of failure to comply with the order of a police officer, a felony of the third degree, and Robert J. Taylor, 53, of Van Wert, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated trafficking in drugs, a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Burchfield ordered presentence investigations on both men and scheduled sentencing for both at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 20.<\/p>\n<p>Two people also appeared in court on Wednesday for bond violation hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Taylor, 23, of Van Wert, admitted to violating his bond by failing a drug test. Judge Burchfield then set a $25,000 cash\/commercial surety bond in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Cooper, 33, of Van Wert, admitted to violating his bond by failing to report to probation. A $50,000 cash\/commercial surety bond was then set in that case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Two people were given prison sentences on drug-related charges during hearings held Wednesday in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Daniel Phinney, 32, of Delphos, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on a charge of having a weapon under disability, a felony of the third degree, and 12 months in prison [&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-88591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 13:11:09","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\/88591","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=88591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}