By Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
A short jail sentence may not have been what one man was after but, as the judge warned him, it could have been much worse.
Thirty-one-year-old Jamie Weithman of Galion appeared in Crawford County Common Pleas Court Monday afternoon for a continued hearing on his community control violations. Weithman had originally been placed on probation for one year after pleading guilty to drug possession in 2012.
Despite some haggling for less jail time, Weithman admitted to violating his community control when he was convicted of criminal trespassing and criminal mischief and for testing positive for marijuana and Suboxone.
Judge Russell Wiseman continued Weithman on community control with the special condition that he serves 120 days in the county jail. Weithman will be unsuccessfully terminated from community control upon his release from jail.
Wiseman warned Weithman, however, that his stint in jail could have been much worse if Wiseman had decided to enforce the eight-month sentence that had been hanging over his head rather than go along with the recommended 120-day county jail sentence.
Chelsea Griffin appeared in Common Pleas Court on a motion to revoke her intervention. The 25-year-old Crestline woman had attorney Brad Starkey appointed as her counsel and had bond set at $50,000. Griffin’s supervising officer alleged that Griffin had tested positive for opiates on Sept. 25, had failed to him informed of her residence, and failed to report to her office visits as instructed.
Griffin had entered a guilty plea for a fifth-degree felony drug possession in June, which was to be held until her successful completion of her intervention program.
Fifty-year-old Tammy Fry of Galion was appointed attorney Sebastian Berger and had bond set at $50,000 for her community control violations. Fry’s supervising officer stated that she had failed to keep him advised of her residence and failed to report to him as instructed.
Fry had originally pleaded guilty to drug possession in 2012 and had been placed on intervention before failing that program and ordered to serve three years on probation. She also pleaded guilty to a second charge of drug possession in April of 2013 and placed on community control.
Thirty-five-year-old Brad Tanner could soon be facing a prison sentence. The Galion man appeared in Common Pleas Court Monday afternoon for an arraignment hearing. Tanner had been charged with deception to obtain a dangerous drug, a felony five offense.
Judge Russell Wiseman appointed Shane Leuthold as Tanner’s counsel and set bond at $50,000.
Tanner could receive a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison and a $2,500 fine, of which $1,250 would be mandatory.