By Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com

Judge Sean Leuthold may not be able to do anything about Tyler Arnold’s past prison sentence and subsequent early release, but he warned the 29-year-old man that those same crimes would land him at least double his original sentence.

Arnold admitted to violating his community control in Crawford County Common Pleas Court Monday afternoon. Though three additional alleged violations were dismissed, Arnold admitted to changing this address without permission and failing to report to his office visits.

Leuthold re-imposed Arnold’s original four-year prison sentence for trafficking in drugs and drug possession, second- and third-degree felonies respectively. Arnold will be credited for time he had spent in the county jail as well as time served in prison before his judicial release.

Leuthold assured Arnold that he would have given the defendant 11 or 12 years in prison for the second- and third-degree felonies had Leuthold been on the bench at that time.

“You get convicted of major crimes, you get major prison,” Leuthold said.

Arnold had pleaded guilty to the original charges in August of 2013 and had been granted judicial release seven months later. He does have charges pending in Morrow County.

Twenty-five-year-old Kara Lynn Burns of Galion barely lasted a month on community control before she faced Judge Leuthold once again.

Burns had pleaded guilty to drug possession earlier this year and had been sentenced to community control on March 11. Since then, Burns had failed to keep her supervising officer informed of her residence, failed to report to that officer as ordered, and tested positive for marijuana and opiates during a random urine test.

“I gave you community control last time because the law made me give you community control,” Leuthold said. The judge viewed Burns’ violations and subsequent actions at the county jail – disrespecting and threatening the officers – to be “unacceptable behavior.”

“Obviously, Kara, you’re not amenable to community control. Nothing else I can do at this point,” Leuthold said as he sentence Burns to 10 months in prison.

Twenty-three-year-old Joshua Miller of Bucyrus has a chance to get clean but Judge Leuthold warned him it wouldn’t be easy.

Miller pleaded guilty to felony five drug possession Monday. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered but Assistant Prosecutor Ryan Hoovler said the state recommended five years on community control for Miller. The Bucyrus man will also be expected to enter into a drug and alcohol treatment program, to pay a $1,250 mandatory drug fine, and to forfeit drug-related property to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office.

Miller requested to be approved for the court’s Intensive Supervision and Treatment program.

Leuthold warned Miller that if he could not abide by the ISAT program and forced the judge to kick him out, he would be sent to prison.