By Gary Ogle and Krystal Smalley
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ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
A rural Bucyrus man managed to get one felony conviction vacated but admitted to violating his community control on another charge and was sentenced to 12 months in prison Tuesday.
Twenty-year-old Nicholas McIntyre admitted to Judge Russell Wiseman he had failed to report to his probation officer, refused to report on another occasion and refused to take a drug test as required. Wiseman revoked McIntyre’s community control and sentenced him to 12 months in prison for his 2012 conviction of felony five drug possession. McIntyre will get credit for 172 days already served in the county jail.
As part of his plea agreement, Wiseman granted McIntyre’s motion to vacate his conviction in 2012 on a felony five theft even though McIntyre pleaded guilty to the charge. The reason for vacating the theft conviction was an improper indictment on the charge with involved the theft of a credit card.
“In a sense you’re getting away with a free crime, but you are stepping up to the plate and accepting responsibility,” Wiseman told McIntyre at sentencing. “Hopefully, this little trip will help you.”
Both vacating the theft conviction and the prison sentence were part of a plea agreement with the prosecutor’s office. The theft and drug possession charges were counts 1 and 2 of a 2012 indictment to which McIntyre pleaded guilty. His original sentence included treatment and three years of community control.
Scott Snyder, 26, of Galion, appeared in Crawford County Common Pleas Court Tuesday afternoon for an arraignment but he left with a guilty plea. Snyder simply wanted to move things along in his case. He waived counsel and pleaded guilty to a felony five receiving stolen property charge.
Between May 20 and 23, 2010 Snyder had received property that he knew came from a theft offense. The property had belonged to his parents.
Snyder has been clean from heroin since 2010 but since that time his dad hardly spoke to him, he said. “I’m sorry I did it,” Snyder told Judge Wiseman. “I went through this entire time without my dad.”
Luckily, Snyder is changing his life around and his dad has started speaking to him again. “He forgave me for the whole thing,” Snyder explained to Wiseman.
Snyder was placed on community control for three years with the special condition that he pay restitution to his dad in an amount yet to be determined.
Liza Beidelschies, 31, of Findlay, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, a fifth degree felony. She had received property that belonged to another person on May 19, 2010 and which she knew stemmed from a theft offense.
Beidelschies was placed on community control for three years, fined $750 and must pay the cost of her supervision. She must also pay restitution in an amount yet to be determined.
Ross Craner, 22, of Galion, has known that he has a drug problem. He hoped that pleading guilty just might get him the help that he needs. Craner had pleaded guilty to a felony five drug possession charge back in May and has continued to struggle with his drug addiction since then.
Craner waived counsel and admitted to his violations. He confessed to using heroin, cocaine and Percocet on Aug. 8 and to using cocaine and Suboxone on Sept. 5.
Wiseman continued Craner’s community control with the condition that he enter and successfully complete the community based correctional facility program at CROSSWAEH.
“I do think CBCF will be a good recommendation for me,” Craner said.
Mindy Prosser, 21, of Galion, had been placed on intervention in lieu of conviction in December 2011 but her recent violations have landed her in hot water. On Sept. 6 Prosser is alleged to have had a gram of heroin and drug paraphernalia in her possession, admitted to using heroin, and had been in contact with convicted felon Alan Dyer. Wiseman appointed attorney Tom Nicholson to Prosser and set her bond at $25,000.
Megan Fox, 21, of Galion, entered a not guilty plea to her felony four theft charge. Fox, according to assistant prosecuting attorney Ryan Hoovler, had been seen on video taking $16,000 worth of jewelry from a pawn shop. Wiseman set bond at $25,000.
Marissa Donohue, 21, was granted judicial release and placed on community control for three years. Donohue had been doing time after pleading guilty to two counts of trafficking in drugs in July 2012.