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A Lima man facing 50 drug-related charges has turned down a plea deal. Eric Upthegrove Jr. had until this morning to accept the deal, and formally refused it in court Tuesday morning. His lawyer made motions about search warrants for two homes and the GPS data from two vehicles as part of a September 2021 drug arrest by the West Ohio Crime Task Force. The information that they used to obtain the warrants came from a confidential informant.