Krystal Smalley
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Two men were sentenced to prison Wednesday morning after admitting to using drugs while on community control.
Thirty-two-year-old Travis Poland, of Galion, was sentenced to prison for 27 months after he admitted to using Vicodin and testing positive for opiates on March 21. Poland, who had been on community control on three separate drug-related cases, received consecutive nine-month prison sentences on each case.
Crawford County Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold lamented the fact that, despite having three felonies, Poland was never sent to prison before this due to when and how the cases were handled. Poland was placed on intervention in lieu of conviction in 2013 for drug possession. Though the next two cases took place in 2014 and 2015, the charges were brought to the Common Pleas Court at the same time, making Poland ineligible for prison since he had yet to be convicted for the 2013 charge.
“Mr. Poland, I’m not sure how many more breaks you think you’re going to get,” Leuthold said. “We have clearly a pattern of behavior that shows rehabilitation is not an option in this case . . . Every opportunity you’ve been given to straighten your life up, you’ve squandered.”
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Quentin Jenkins will not be facing additional charges over the alleged destruction of property, but he will be doing prison time for violating his community control.
The 20-year-old man admitted to testing positive 
for THC while on community control. A second violation, in which Jenkins caused physical damage to a motorcycle when he pushed it over, was dismissed.
“You’re on felony probation for having a firearm you’re not supposed to have. You can’t use marijuana,” Leuthold reprimanded.
The judge sentenced Jenkins to seven months in prison for the probation violation. Jenkins pleaded guilty in 2015 for possessing a dangerous ordinance – in this case, a sawed-off shotgun. He was placed on community control at the time.
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Twenty-five-year-old Ryan St. Clair, of Bucyrus, was brought before Leuthold for a community control violation hearing. St. Clair’s probation officer alleged that St. Clair had missed office visits since December, failed to comply with his substance abuse counseling, admitted to using heroin, and twice tested positive for marijuana. Leuthold appointed Adam Stone as St. Clair’s attorney and set bond at $150,000.
St. Clair had been on community control since October after pleading guilty to drug possession.
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Thirty-one-year-old Albert Bivens, of Cleveland, was arraigned on felony 5 drug possession. Bivens was pulled over by the Ohio State Highway Patrol for a traffic stop when the trooper smelled marijuana in the vehicle. After a search, marijuana and half of an Oxycodone pill was found in the car. Bivens claimed at the time that a friend left it on the seat.
Leuthold considered releasing Bivens on a personal recognizance bond but, after discovering that Bivens had been found guilty of felonious assault in 2013 in Cuyahoga County, he set bond at $25,000. Joel Spitzer was appointed as Bivens’ attorney.