By Krystal Smalley and Gary Ogle
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com; gogle@wbcowqel.com
It was another busy day in Common Pleas Court Wednesday with probation violation cases dominating the docket. Three more people were sent to prison for violating community control and another was sent to jail.
Ricky Jordan Jr. was originally convicted of fifth-degree forgery and illegal processing of drug documents. Jordan admitted to violating probation by virtue of his unsuccessful termination from a volunteers of America halfway house for addiction treatment. Jordan’s community control was revoked and he was sentenced to concurrent 10-month prison sentences for each count of his previous conviction.
William Bauer Jr. was originally convicted of third-degree felony domestic violence. He admitted to charges he had been in possession of drug abuse instruments and drug paraphernalia and refusing a drug screen. Bauer, who was free from prison on judicial release, was sentenced to 36 months in prison. Bauer’s community control was also revoked.
Derek Mills was sentenced to a total of 12 months in prison after he violated his community control. The 28-year-old Bucyrus man appeared in Crawford County Common Pleas Court Wednesday afternoon to admit to violating his probation. Mills admitted to moving from his address without permission and failing to report to office visits as ordered by his parole officer.
Judge Sean Leuthold sentenced Mills to 12 months in prison on each original count. Those sentences will be served concurrently for a total of 12 months. Mills had originally pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving stolen property, a fourth- and a fifth-degree felony, in March of 2011. He did serve the first 120 days of his three-year probation sentence in the county jail, though his probation had been extended in January of 2014.
It was a quick return to Common Pleas Court for 26-year-old Sarah Lewis of Bucyrus. She had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a fourth-degree felony, on Jan. 8 but returned to court Wednesday after she violated her community control. Lewis admitted to causing physical harm to another person and resisting arrest on Jan. 22. Lewis was ordered to serve 90 days in the county jail and undergo a mental health assessment and any follow up treatment. Her probation was continued.
Jayla Furr had an initial hearing she violated community control. Furr is alleged to have submitted an altered urine sample for drug screens. Furr is on community control in two separate cases. One for a conviction on a possession of drugs charge in 2009 and a 2011 case in which she was convicted of robbery. She served concurrent prison sentences in those cases. Furr’s bond was set at $100,000 and Geoffrey Stoll was appointed as her attorney.
Though 34-year-old James Comer of Crestline had originally waived an attorney at his initial community control hearing, Judge Leuthold believed it was in Comer’s best interests to have an attorney. Leuthold appointed Geoffrey Stoll as Comer’s counsel and ordered a final hearing to be scheduled for next week.
Comer had been placed on community control for three years in January of 2013 after pleading guilty to receiving stolen property, though that probation had been extended to five years in November when Comer had first violated his community control.
Travis Poland was appointed Sebastian Berger as his attorney for a fifth-degree felony drug possession case. Poland, a 31-year-old Galion man, is also awaiting a hearing on community control violations for another case.