By Gary Ogle
gogle@wbcowqel.com
The cost of using heroin continued to escalate for one Bucyrus woman on Monday morning in Crawford County Common Pleas Court. Twenty-seven-year-old Heather Mosley was sentenced to a total four years in prison after she pleaded guilty to corrupting another with drugs and drug possession.
Noting he doesn’t mince words, Judge Sean Leuthold spoke during the sentencing portion of the defendant’s hearing.
“Apparently Ms. Mosley’s husband is a complete idiot given Ms. Mosley’s problem with heroin,” said Leuthold in reference to the circumstances that led to charges being filed.
Heather Mosley, who was on probation at the time for an April felony theft conviction, admitted to injecting her husband, Lenold Mosley, with heroin when he requested her to do so. Lenold Mosley overdosed as a result of the injection and had to be revived with multiple doses of Narcan.
Lenold Mosley also has charges pending for felony five drug possession.
“I don’t think you are a terrible person,” Leuthold told Heather Mosley. “Your sense of right and wrong . . . is turned completely upside down. I do believe you are a danger to this community.”
Heather Mosley was sentenced to three years in prison for the second-degree felony of corrupting another with drugs. The maximum allowable is eight years. She was sentenced to 12 months for the felony five drug possession charge which is the maximum. Those sentences were ordered to be served consecutively.
She was also fined $7,500 and had her driver’s license suspended for six months.
A charge of probation violation from the 2015 theft case was dismissed in return for Heather Mosley’s guilty plea to the two new felony charges and she was terminated unsuccessfully from that case.
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Twenty-four-year-old Haley Walters of Galion will serve 90 days in the county jail after admitting to violating her intervention program and pleading guilty to drug possession.
“If it wasn’t for the grace of the intervention in lieu program, you’d be heading to prison right now. So knock it off,” Leuthold warned Walters, who was not prison eligible because she had not yet been convicted of her first charge.
Leuthold placed Walters on community control for five years, suspended her driver’s license for six months, fined her $1,250 in both cases, and ordered her to enter into a drug and alcohol treatment program.
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Holly Dameron’s motion to have her bond reduced was successful. Her attorney, Grant Garverick, successfully argued to the judge that the 33-year-old Galion resident is not a flight risk and has significant ties to the community.
Dameron is charged with third-degree felony theft and at her arraignment bond was set at $200,000. Judge Leuthold lowered the bond to $100,000 at Monday’s hearing.
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Two people were arraigned Monday morning.
Nicholas Hamel is charged with felony five drug possession. Grant Garverick was appointed to represent Hamel and bond was set at $75,000.
Gary Murphy is charged with felony four theft. Brian Gernert was appointed to represent him and bond was set at $75,000.
Murphy was named as one of Bucyrus Most Wanted at a City Council meeting in October. He also had two businesses at one time in downtown Bucyrus.
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Twenty-three-year-old Sheree Pfeifer certainly was not happy when she was sentenced to prison in April, but she was grateful for the forced change.
Pfeifer, who had been sentenced to three consecutive 12-month prison terms for drug-related charges, was granted judicial release Monday.
Leuthold was skeptical about handing down the motion. “One of your biggest problems is you get around the wrong people and lose control,” he said.
“I’m not going to lie. I was mad a first when I was sentenced to prison,” Pfeifer admitted to Leuthold. “It truly saved my life. I didn’t know who I was before going to prison.”
Though Leuthold granted judicial release, he ordered Pfeifer to be held in the county jail until he receives a post-sentence investigation and a referral from Maryhaven. Once the investigation is completed. Leuthold will make the decision whether to place Pfeifer on the court’s Intensive Supervision and Treatment program or send her to a community-based correctional facility.
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