Gerald Fullenkamp, 78, was sentenced on the charges of aggravated arson and cruelty to a companion animal.
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Here is this week's court activity from Van Wert County Court of Common Pleas for the week of January 18, 2023.
Greer addresses the court saying, “I just want to say, just because I was found guilty by a jury doesn't make me guilty. That's why I didn't plead guilty. That's why I'm standing here today at sentencing."
Here is this week's court activity from Van Wert County Court of Common Pleas for the week of November 23, 2022.
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.
32-year-old Heather Gilles has been charged with three counts of aggravated arson, two of them are felonies of the first degree. According to the indictment, she was charged with starting a house fire at a home in the 200 block of Bell Avenue in Findlay on June 26th. Two people were inside the home at the time.
Over the weekend, the jury in Tom Stinebaugh's trial returned a total of five guilty verdicts on the charges of having unlawful interest in a public contract and theft in office, which are both felony charges, and three misdemeanor charges of conflict of interest. The charges stem from different incidents including Stinebaugh allegedly using his position as mayor to have the city install a sewer line to a home his company built at the Wapakoneta's expense.
22-year-old Romiere Hale pleaded guilty to the charges of murder and endangering children. The charges stem from an incident that occurred on April 12th, 2021, where 4-year-old Ma'Laya Dewitt was found unresponsive at a home on North Elizabeth Street. She later died at the hospital. Romiere Hale was the boyfriend of her mother Stayce Riley.
19-year-old Ramiel Laws received his sentencing today in Allen County Common Pleas Court, where Judge Kohlrieser handed down the 30-month sentence. Laws was indicted by the Allen County Grand Jury in September of 2021 on aggravated robbery and rape charges that occurred in early August of 2021.