Wells Superior Court
Criminal Cases
Jacob D. Pigg, 32, Bluffton, pleaded operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor.
Sentenced to a year in the Wells County Jail, with all but two days suspended, and placed on probation for 363 days. The term of the sentence is to be served consecutively with whatever sentence is meted for his violating probation from an April 6, 2021, sentence meted in Noble County Superior Court on one count of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.
Ordered to pay court costs and probation fees in his Wells County case.
As part of a plea agreement, one count each of operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalency of at least .08 percent but less than .15 percent, a Class C misdemeanor; no valid driver’s license in his possession and unsafe movement from lane to lane, both Class C infractions, were dismissed.
Pigg was charged with driving a 2014 Dodge Dart up and over the sidewalk on Oak Street and into the grass of Life Community Church around 1:26 a.m. March 2. The car became mired in mud in the grass.
The rather forceful impact with the high curb on that side of the street caused extensive undercarriage damage to the vehicle.
The officer noted in his report that Pigg appeared intoxicated, smelled “strongly” of alcohol, failed field sobriety tests and blew a .138 percent alcohol concentration equivalency on a Breathalyzer test.
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Daniel Allen Brown, 32, Markle, violated probation by testing positive for methamphetamine following a random drug testing April 12, and for failing to comply with the home detention rules of the Wells County Community Corrections program.
Ordered to serve 14 days in the Wells County Jail — credited as time served — and to remain on probation.
Brown was originally sentenced March 8 on one count of leaving the scene of a property damage accident, a Class B misdemeanor.
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Robert Allan Caylor, 28, rural Montpelier, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana with a prior conviction for the same offense, a Class A misdemeanor.
Sentenced to a year in the Wells County Jail, with all but two days suspended — credited as time served, and placed on probation for 363 days.
Ordered to serve 120 days of home detention and pay court costs and probation fees.
Bluffton police responded to a Bluffton motel April 10 on a report of a smell of marijuana emanating from a room of the motel.
The officer observed that there was no odor outside of the room but when Trey Allen O’Reilly, 22, Bluffton, opened the door, reportedly a strong odor of burned marijuana emanated from the interior of the room.
Officers spoke with both O’Reilly and Caylor, and after some questioning, both reportedly admitted to having some marijuana and had thrown it into the toilet bowl, In the bowl there was a marijuana cigarette that had been smoked.
Upon further questioning, O’Reilly admitted there was a plastic bag of marijuana also in a drawer and removed it from the drawer for the officer.
Caylor admitted that he had purchased “a little bit of weed to smoke with a friend before going into work.”
O’Reilly was sentenced last week on one count of possession of marijuana, with a prior conviction for the same offense, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Petition for expungement and sealing of criminal records filed by Brandon L. Burch, Fort Wayne.
Petition for dissolution filed in the marriage of Angel J. Patrick, Ossian, and Ryan R. Patrick, Ossian.
Infractions
Kylee N. Waldron, 26, Bluffton; no valid driver’s license in her possession and operating a motor vehicle without insurance, Ind. 1 at 1100N.
Aweston T. Hovis, 19, Fort Wayne; driving while suspended and operating a motor vehicle with a false and/or fictitious license plate, Main Street at Dustman Road.
Civil Cases
Petition for replacement vehicle title filed by Jonathon R. Stein, rural Craigville, for a 2002 Sundiro Eagle motorcycle.
Wells Circuit Court
Criminal Cases
Petition for post conviction relief filed by Shandar Fall Hunter, 36, formerly of Montpelier and currently incarcerated at the Rockville Correctional Facility in Rockville Indiana serving sentence meted March 25, 2019, on one count of incest, a Level 5 felony.
In her petition, Hunter is claiming that a DNA test was never performed to prove that she was indeed related to the person with whom she was charged with having committed incest.
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Probation transferred to Wells County for Cruz Aparicio, Ossian, sentenced for harassment, a Class B misdemeanor, and invasion of privacy, a Class A misdemeanor.
The duration of the probation term is through Nov. 30.
Aparicio must complete a batterer intervention program and pay monthly probation users’ fees
Civil Cases
Complaints for payment filed by Jefferson Capital Systems LLC, Golden, Col., against: Joseph Shelley, rural Warren, $811.76; Javier Rosado, Ossian, $2,774.17.
Petition for dissolution filed in the marriage of Greggory A. Vanover, Ossian, and Brittany R. Vanover, Ossian.
Complaints for payment filed by OneMain Financial Group, Anderson, against Cozette L. Weaver, Bluffton, $2,483.19; David Croghan Jr., Bluffton, $987.94.
Petition for dissolution filed in the marriage of Karen Lauer, Bluffton, and Edward J. Lauer, Fort Wayne.’
