BUCYRUS — A hearing was held Wednesday in Crawford County Common Pleas Court to address several items forfeited in a criminal case.
Marquis Allred, formerly of Crestline but currently incarcerated at the Belmont Correctional Facility, was not present in court for the hearing due to the current pandemic. Bucyrus attorney Tom Nicholson represented Allred in the plea agreement which took place in June 2019.
Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold approved the plea deal. As a result Allred, 35, is serving 36 months in prison for having weapons under disability, eight months on the improper handling of a firearm in an automobile, eight months on one count of possession of drugs and seven months on the second count of possession of drugs, for a total of 59 months in prison. Nicholson continues to represent Allred.
In question were several documents recovered during the investigation. Judge Leuthold went through the blue folder containing the documents to decide what property would be returned to Allred.
Leuthold ruled that a journal, a motor vehicle law handbook and a photo of Allred with a woman be returned. The judge also ordered various entrepreneurial documents, credit card information and a business plan on how to start an adult porn site be returned.
However, Leuthold ordered the remaining documents be retained and destroyed according to law. Allred had a detailed outline of how to breed pit bulls and start a dog fighting ring. Allred was so specific in the plan that he outlined how to pick breeding and fighting dogs as well as how to train dogs to fight.
Leuthold further ordered a detailed plan to open a marijuana growing and distribution business not be returned to Allred.
“I’ll give him this much, he has an entrepreneurial spirit,” an upset Leuthold said of Allred. “This is essentially a blueprint with the sole purpose of setting up a dog fighting/killing ring. This is so damming. I am repulsed. This is a horrible thing that happens in this country and all over the world. Anything that mentions dogs will not be returned.
“The business plan to set up a marijuana growing business will not be returned either,” Leuthold continued. “First of all, it wouldn’t do him any good to apply to open a business to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes because he’s a felon. He couldn’t even get a license. But this is going to be destroyed as well.”
Leuthold ordered the material to be destroyed according to law after it is held for 30 days. The law allows Allred 30 days to appeal.