By Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
Community control violations turned into prison and jail time for three people Wednesday.
When it came time for Shawna Holman’s case, Crawford County Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold thought she was trying to give him the run around when it came to where she smoked cocaine. Much to his surprise, the reason 35-year-old Bucyrus woman could not give him a straight answer is because she really couldn’t remember.
“You were just stoned out of your mind,” Leuthold laughed in disbelief. “Is jumping in a car and smoking cocaine with Eddie Awbrey worth all this?”
She agreed it wasn’t.
Holman admitted to violating her probation when she tested positive on a urinalysis for cocaine, admitted to using cocaine and marijuana, and associated with a convicted felon. Leuthold sentenced her to 10 months in prison.
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Brad Tanner will have to serve 60 days in the county jail after he admitted to violating his community control. The 38-year-old Galion man admitted that he failed to keep his supervising officer informed of his place of employment and failed to complete his Maryhaven program.
“Mr. Tanner, you seem to be under a very, very mistaken impression of how things work around here,” Leuthold said. “You don’t jerk me around, you don’t jerk your P.O. (parole officer) around. When I say jump, you say how high.”
Tanner will be returned to community control after he serves his jail time. He was placed on intervention in 2015 after entering guilty pleas for deception to obtain a dangerous drug and forgery. He violated that program in May when he pleaded guilty on charges in Crawford County Municipal Court.
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Twenty-two-year-old Chad Carlisle, of Bucyrus, previously admitted to violating his community control, but a matter of prescribed opiates held off a final hearing until Wednesday afternoon.
Carlisle was prescribed 45 Oxycodone pills by his doctor after having surgery, a fact that Leuthold has said repeatedly was a bad idea.
“I can’t punish you for taking the prescription, but I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s a bad idea,” Leuthold said before stating he wished the doctors who prescribed such medication to addicts would be required to perform autopsies on those it kills.
Carlisle’s community control was extended to five years, but he must serve 30 days in the county jail. Leuthold set a report date for June 30. Carlisle will return to Leuthold’s Intensive Supervision and Treatment program upon his release.
“This program is 100 percent . . . I hold people accountable,” Leuthold told Carlisle. “Work hard. We’ve got a lot of good things done with you.”
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Rex Beecham was arraigned on a felony 5 drug possession charge. The 53-year-old man was allegedly found unresponsive at a dead end on Fisher Street after an apparent overdose. He had been on probation at the time after serving nine months of a 36-month prison sentence in 2016 for failure to comply. Leuthold set bond at $150,000 and appointed Andrew Motter as Beecham’s attorney.
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Four people appeared in court Wednesday morning for initial hearings on their probation violations.
Thirty-five-year-old Matthew Burchett is alleged to have sold and possessed buprenorphine. Those allegations also brought with them a new felony charge of trafficking in drugs. Leuthold set bond at $150,000 and appointed Thomas Nicholson to represent Burchett.
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Michael Bloomfield and Brooke Castle are both being held on $100,000 bonds for their alleged probation violations.
Bloomfield, 39, allegedly use heroin and received five doses of Narcan after an apparent overdose. Leuthold appointed Brad Starkey as the defendant’s attorney. Bloomfield was also arraigned on Monday for drug possession.
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Twenty-nine-year-old Castle, of Galion, allegedly produced three positive urinalyses for separate drugs. Attorney Joel Spitzer was appointed to her case.
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Forty-six-year-old Tina Rotermund allegedly violated her community control when she consumed alcohol on May 25. Leuthold set bond at $50,000 and appointed Grant Garverick as her attorney.
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Leuthold gave his own public service announcement to the four probation violation defendants before they left the courtroom.
“Every drug dealer that says, ‘no, this is pure,’ is lying,” Leuthold told the defendants. He warned that heroin is now laced with fentanyl, which is resistant to Narcan, a spray that treats a narcotic overdose in an emergency situation.