The jury found Burse guilty on two of the three counts of trafficking drugs in one case and they found him guilty of possession of a fentanyl-related substance in another case. But when it came to the case of the 2019 shooting at a house on Collett Street, where an occupied car was hit by gunfire, the jury could not reach an agreement that Burse was responsible for the crime.

Judge Jeffrey Reed and Terri Kohlrieser are warning the public that a recent scam call has been circulating around Allen County, where someone will call you, and state that you did not appear for jury duty our your subpoena, all in a threatening tone. The court wants to remind residents that jury summons will only be sent by mail, never by phone, and that an actual officer will arrive at their door if a real subpoena was ignored.

Jurors found him not guilty on the kidnapping charge, but instead, they found him guilty on the reduced charge of abduction. They also found him not guilty of rape, but guilty of gross sexual imposition. Back in 2021, Catlett allegedly held a man against his will and had sexual contact with him.

A man who was deemed incompetent but is restorable to stand trial back in August of 2019 was back in the Allen County Common Pleas Court on Monday for another competency hearing. Judge Jeffrey Reed deemed Robert Miller, who threatened to blow up the Pandora-Gilboa School in May of 2019, now competent to stand trial following a November 15th report from doctors from the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Western Ohio that states Miller has been restored.

ALLEN COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - The Allen County Common Pleas Court judges may have found that some of their issues are coming from how they're look…

Na'zier Howard was sentenced to fifteen years to life after he previously plead guilty to the murder of Cowan. Lima police say that in December 2019, they responded to a call of a shooting at 225 South Kenilworth Avenue. There they found Cowan with a gunshot wound. Howard was the one who allegedly shot the victim.

Lima, OH (WLIO) - Allen County Common Pleas Court is letting people know that if they skip out on jury duty, they will be facing the judge themselves.  Judge Jeffrey Reed and Judge Terri Kohlrieser both held contempt of court hearings for people who failed to show up for jury duty and could not show just cause for not showing up after they were served a summons to do so.  A total of 10 people were fined today for failing to appear for jury duty, and three other people had bench warrants issued on them for not showing up for their contempt of court hearing.  The judges told Your News Now that more and more people are not showing up to serve as jurors after receiving a court summons which has been affecting the court system. So, they are charging the people with a crime who don't reach out to the court before hand to try and get excused from jury duty.  Recently, Judge Reed sent out 70 summonses for one trial and only 17 people reported for jury duty. 

According to both Allen County Judges Jeffrey Reed and Terri Kohlrieser, a large number of people are not appearing for their summoned jury duty obligations. The past few weeks have seen some cases almost not having the necessary amount of jurors seated for a trial. Another factor that Judge Reed points to is social media. According to the court, false postings have been made in the local area that recent court summons were "fake" and had a "forged" signature of court judges. Reed says that social media is often "irresponsible" and "unaccountable", and the recent false posting proves that point.

26-year-old Devon Ketzenberger got permission from Judge Jeffrey Reed to take part in a work program at the mental health facility where he is getting treatment. In 2021, the judge found him not guilty by reason of insanity on murder and other charges for the death of his mother Wendy Ketzenberger. Detectives say he killed his mother, by strangling and beating her before starting the fire that destroyed her home in September of 2020.

40-year-old Joshua Hughes pleaded guilty to trafficking a fentanyl-related compound and reckless homicide, which was reduced from involuntary manslaughter. A third charge was dropped as part of the plea deal. Hughes and his brother Zachary Hughes were asked by Joshua's mother to buy fentanyl for her while she was in a program to help get her off drugs, they did so and she overdosed and died.