BUCYRUS — Iva Reedy of Crestline appeared in Crawford County Common Pleas Court to change her plea.
Reedy, 26, admitted to possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony punishable with up to 12 months in prison.
Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold sentenced Reedy to five years of community control. She was ordered to complete drug and alcohol counseling and will forfeit all drug related property to the Crestline Police Department.
Reedy’s attorney, Tom Nicholson, addressed the court, calling Reedy’s case a sad one.
“Miss Reedy managed to make her family so mad at her that they called the police and turned her in,” Nicholson said. “We are hopeful that with this sentence she will be able to get help for her addiction and start new.”
“Behave yourself. If you mess this up, I can send you right to prison,” Leuthold said. “I wish you the best.”
In other court action, Mark Mays, 35, of Cleveland was arraigned by video from the Crawford County Justice Center. Mays is charged with theft of a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony punishable with up to 18 months in prison.
Mays was released from prison last Friday and then rearrested on this new charge. The theft of the automobile occurred in March 2018.
Mays went into the Ohio Specialty Services Motor Ranch in Bucyrus and asked to take a test drive in a 2007 Chevy Avalanche. Mays never returned the vehicle to the dealership.
Before setting bond, Assistant Prosecutor Ryan Hoovler went over Mays’ extensive criminal record that included four similar thefts and one count of receiving stolen property.
Leuthold appointed attorney Carlos Crawford to represent Mays. Bond was set at $75,000.
Kimberly Dauchenbaugh, 31, of Crestline was arraigned on one count of child endangerment, a third-degree felony punishable with up to 36 months in prison. According to charges, Dauchenbaugh gave birth to a baby that tested positive for Oxycodone and cocaine.
Leuthold appointed attorney Sebastian Berger to represent Dauchenbaugh and bond was set at $50,000.
Louis Lewlenski, 28, of Crestline was charged with one count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony punishable with up to 36 months in prison and one count of domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor punishable with up to 60 days in jail.
According to charges, Lewlenski assaulted his girlfriend, landing her in the hospital with a double concussion and chest contusions. The victim went to police to report the incident after she was released from the hospital.
Leuthold appointed attorney Sebastian Berger to represent Lewlenski and set bond at $75,000. Lewlenski was ordered to have no contact with the victim.
Tara Sandlin, 24, of Bucyrus was indicted on one count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony punishable with up to eight years in prison and one count of domestic violence a first-degree misdemeanor punishable with up to 90 days in jail.
Sandlin admitted that she threw a knife at her boyfriend and it lodged in his shoulder. Hoovler told the court that the victim did not fear his safety.
Leuthold set Sandlin’s bond at $50,000 and appointed attorney Brad Starkey to represent her. The court ordered that she have no contact with the victim.