Wells Superior Court
Criminal Cases
Cory E. Brickley, 40, Bluffton, violated probation by failing to report to his probation officer July 15, 2021, and refusing to submit to a drug screen, also on July 15, 2021.
Ordered to serve 178 days in the Wells County Jail. Credited for 152 days spent in confinement awaiting disposition of his case and pay $340 in fees.
Upon completion of his sentence, his probation will terminate.
Brickley was originally sentenced May 13, 2021, on one count of criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Hayley N. Reynolds, 27, Ossian, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.
Sentenced to 180 days in the Wells County Jail, with all but 16 days suspended — credited as time served, and placed on probation for 349 days.
Assessed court costs and probation fees.
Reynolds was charged after police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance in the 600 block of Wheatridge Court Feb. 27.
Wells Circuit Court
Criminal Cases
Trevor James Coleman, 20, Bluffton, pleaded guilty to criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor.
Sentenced to 120 days in the Wells County Jail, credited as time served, and assessed court costs of $185.
On April 19, 2021, Coleman was entered into a pre-trial diversion agreement, but violated the conditions of that pre-trial diversion by being charged in May with battery resulting in serious bodily injury to a person less than 14 years of age, a Level 5 felony; battery against a public safety official, a Level 6 felony.
He is still awaiting trial on the new charges.
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Sentencing set for 9 a.m. Aug. 17 for Bradley Allen Nunn, 28, Muncie, who pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine, a Level 6 felony.
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Sentencing set for 1 p.m. Aug. 17 for Kobi M. Donnersbach, Bluffton, who pleaded guilty to intimidation where a defendant draws or uses a deadly weapon to intimidate a person, a Level 5 felony; carrying a handgun without a license, a Level 5 felony; operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalency of greater than .08 percent but less than .15 percent, a Class C misdemeanor; intimidation of am public safety official, a Level 6 felony; and failure to appear in court for a hearing on the charges that had been filed against him, a Level 6 felony.
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Christopher W. Blackburn, 52, Marion, pleaded guilty to burglary, a Level 5 felony.
Sentenced to six years in prison, with all but 125 days suspended — credited as time served. The term of the sentence is to be served consecutive to a term that will be meted for violating probation meted in Grant County Circuit Court from an Aug. 30, 2019, sentencing for possession of a narcotic drug, a Level 6 felony, and possession of drug paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
In the Wells County case, Blackburn was placed on probation for two years and ordered to pay restitution of $996.27 to his victim and court costs of $185.
Blackburn was charged with entering an outbuilding on property on 1000S Oct. 20, 2019, and stealing multiple items, including a battery out of a truck.
Surveillance video captured an image of a man on the property driving a primer-colored Ford truck. On Oct. 27, 2019, a Grant County Sheriff’s deputy allegedly caught Blackburn in the act of stealing a battery from a vehicle at a farm property in Grant County. The image from the surveillance video captured in the Wells County burglary video matched that of Blackburn.
In Grant County, Blackburn had been charged with burglary, a Level 4 felony; burglary, a Level 5 felony; possession of methamphetamine, a Level 6 felony; criminal mischief, a Class A misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.
Blackburn allegedly admitted he had a “severe meth addiction” when a Wells County Sheriff’s detective interviewed him while he was incarcerated at the Grant County Jail on the charges against him in that county.
He claimed that he had taken the items from the Wells County residence and had sold them for nominal amounts at the Strawtown Auction near Noblesville in order to fund his drug habit. He allegedly admitted he had borrowed his son’s pickup truck to carry out the burglaries.
One of the items stolen and sold, a vise, had reportedly been in the Wells County victim’s family for multiple generations.
