The Delphos Police Department received 290 calls for service in the month of December, bringing the total to 4021 calls for the year. The following is a partial list of calls handled for the month of December and do not include traffic citations, crashes, ect. 

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The victim's grandmother gave an impact statement to express how Rawlins had taken her granddaughter's body, mind and soul. “She was so looking forward to her future. She was excited to turn 18. She was very happy with her life and herself Jourdyn took all that away from her the day he decided to rape her.”

The Delphos Police Department received 370 calls for service in the month of September, bringing the total to 3084 calls for the year. The following is a partial list of calls handled for the month of September and do not include traffic citations, crashes, ect. The police department has a large number of bicycles that have been located or turned in. If you are missing a bicycle, please come to the police department and describe the bicycle you are missing, and we will get it back to you.

According to court documents, the trial was scheduled to start on September 6th, but will now be pushed back until October 24th, because the court needs more time. Around 30 subpoenas have been issued to people that could testify in the trial.

56-year-old Timothy Kohlhorst was indicted on charges of rape, gross sexual imposition, sexual battery, abduction, and burglary. Court documents say the offense happened at the beginning of the month. In September, Kohlhorst will be taken to the Forensic Psychiatry Center in Dayton for an evaluation. 

The Van Wert County Grand Jury charged 24-year-old Elias Lugo with two counts of rape and two counts of sexual battery. According to the indictment, the alleged offense occurred in February of 2022 and the female victim was unable to give consent. Lugo was arraigned this week on the charges and has a pretrial hearing scheduled for the end of the month.

A Lima man who was indicted on child pornography charges in 2020 has now been sentenced in Allen County Court. 48-year-old Daniel Bettis was sentenced to four years in jail after he took a plea deal and pleaded guilty to four counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance.

33-year-old Matthew Brown was found guilty on all counts in his case, which included nine counts of rape, seven counts of sexual battery, two counts of gross sexual imposition, and one count of attempted rape. According to an indictment, Brown had sexual contact with a child that was 12 years old at the time of the offense in 2020.