By Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
An attempt to skirt the rules landed a Galion man in front of Judge Sean Leuthold once again and the outcome produced similar results as the first go-round.
In Crawford County Common Pleas Court Wednesday morning, 21-year-old Tyler Wireman admitted to tampering with evidence when he taped a container of urine to himself and refused to submit to a urinalysis. Those actions not only violated his community control, but they also resulted in a new charge leveled against Wireman for tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony.
Wireman received 11 months in prison for violating his community control and another 18 months for pleading guilty on the new charge. The sentences will be served consecutively for a total of 29 months in prison with credit for time already served. He must also pay a $1,000 fine and forfeit seized drug paraphernalia to the Galion Police Department.
“Straighten your life up,” Leuthold suggested. “You’re too young to spend your life in prison.”
Wireman originally served three months of an 11-month prison sentence for drug possession in 2016 before being granted judicial release and placed on probation.
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One incident of drug use while on probation was enough to send Natasha Dent to prison for over a year.
The 23-year-old Galion woman admitted to using heroin while on community control. She was sentenced to 14 months in prison, or seven months on each underlying charge.
The judge noted that Dent refused an offer from the prosecutor’s office of judicial release and entrance into a community-based correctional facility. She opted, instead, for flat time for the violations.
“Either they’re being very mature or they want to use and don’t want anyone to bother (them),” Leuthold said of people who chose a similar route that Dent did. “Please stay clean and sober because I don’t want to pick up the paper and see that you’re dead.”
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Forty-three-year-old George Scott, Jr., of Galion, pleaded guilty to felony 5 drug possession. He was sentenced to eight months in prison and fined $1,250. Scott must also forfeit seized drug property to the Galion Police Department. A misdemeanor charge for possession of drug paraphernalia was dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea.
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Twenty-three-year-old Justin Noel appeared in court for an initial hearing on community control violations. Noel allegedly caused physical harm to a family member and consumed alcohol.
After reviewing the police report, Leuthold set bond at $100,000 and appointed Andrew Motter as Noel’s defense attorney.
Noel had been on judicial release since 2015 after serving four months of an 18-month prison sentence for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
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