By Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
A busy docket in Crawford County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday resulted in two people being sentenced to prison terms and another to a stint in the county jail.
Daniel Lee Rosas of Bucyrus admitted to possessing marijuana on June 21 and received a 10-month prison sentence for violating the terms of his community control.
Rosas’ felony sentences have been complicated ones since he was first put on intervention for a breaking and entering felony in 2014. He violated the terms of that program earlier this year when he was charged with drug possession. Judge Sean Leuthold was unable to give the 18-year-old man any prison time at that time due to Ohio law.
When Rosas returned to Common Pleas Court for another violation, however, Leuthold was well within the law to sentence him to some prison time. Leuthold ordered Rosas to 10 months in prison with credit for time served in the county jail.
Ashlee Treisch was sentenced to 100 days in the county jail on a fifth-degree felony for forgery.
Judge Leuthold felt that prison or placement on the court’s Intensive Supervision and Treatment program would benefit the 29-year-old woman. He cited Treisch’s criminal history and the time she spent in jail and also the exploitation he saw from the other person complicit in the case.
Treisch will be placed on the ISAT program after she completes her jail sentence. She must also pay $215.39 in restitution.
Forty-six-year-old Kirk Borders of Galion pleaded guilty to theft of a debit card and was sentenced to six months in prison consecutive with a sentence he is currently serving in Richland County. Borders must also pay $400 in restitution to the victim and a $1,250 fine.
Tammy Lykens of Bucyrus was sentenced to community control for five years and was placed on the court’s Intensive Supervision and Treatment program. The 42-year-old woman pleaded guilty to drug possession on May 26 and had been undergoing weekly drug tests while her pre-sentence investigation was completed.
Judge Leuthold did not take kindly to the fact that Christopher Fawley failed to report to one of his ISAT program meetings, especially since the judge agreed recently to loosen the rules for Fawley – who had up until that point been abiding by his community control – in order for him to go on an upcoming family vacation.
“I bent over backwards to help you to get your life straightened around,” Leuthold said.
Fawley asked if he could explain why he was distracted and failed to miss one of his ISAT meeting but Leuthold warned him that anything he said could change Leuthold’s mind on the sentencing – and not for the better. Fawley quickly clammed up and was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. Once that sentence is completed he will return to the court’s ISAT program.
Fifty-two-year-old Douglas Swart of Bucyrus denied possessing Fentanyl on June 12. The alleged allegation would be a violation of his intervention program. Swart also entered a not guilty plea on two drug possession charges.
Judge Sean Leuthold noted that in light of the fact that one of the drugs in the new charge was Fentanyl, a mixture used to cut heroin and is found in blue drop heroin that caused a number of overdose deaths in Marion last month, he considered Swart to be a risk to the public. Leuthold set bond at $200,000 and appointed Geoffrey Stoll as Swart’s attorney.
The first of four people arrested in a Crestline drug bust last week appeared in Common Pleas Court for violating his community control. Forty-year-old Charles Tyler of Bucyrus was brought in for an initial hearing on community control violations. Tyler’s probation officer stated that he possessed possible illegal substances in Crestline on June 18. The probation officer added that the illegal substances included at least heroin. Leuthold set bond at $100,000 and appointed Rolf Whitney as counsel.
Two people were arraigned Wednesday morning. Thirty-seven-year-old Amy Swalley was arraigned for allegedly possessing oxycodone on May 8. She was appointed attorney Thomas Nicholson and bond was set at $25,000. Thirty-four-year-old Charles Hall was arraigned on a felony five charge of nonsupport of dependents. He was appointed attorney J. Andrew Motter and bond was set at $15,000.