Wells Superior Court
Criminal Cases
Selena Renee Fedock, 25, Fort Wayne, pleaded guilty to failure to return to lawful detention, a Level 6 felony.
Sentenced to 180 days in the Wells County Jail with the term of the sentence to be served consecutively to a term meted in Allen County Superior Court March 15 for violating probation from a Feb. 10, 2021, sentencing for neglect of a dependent, a Level 6 felony. In the Allen County case she was sentenced to a year in prison for violating probation.
Fedock was not granted any good conduct time credit and was ordered to pay $185 in court costs.
Fedock was sentenced July 15, 2021, to four days in the Wells County Jail following her plea of guilty to possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor.
She was ordered to begin serving her sentence at the Wells County Jail Sept. 31, 2021, but she never showed up.
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Tin Aung, 18, Fort Wayne, charged with operating a motor vehicle while never having received a driver’s license, a Class C misdemeanor, and speeding, a Class C infraction, entered into a contract to withhold prosecution/pre-trial diversion.
Ordered to take all necessary steps to obtain a valid Indiana driver’s license and pay $254 in costs and fees.
Aung was driving a Kia through Ossian on Jefferson Street June 18 when he was clocked by an Ossian police officer at 50 mph-35 zone. The officer pulled the Kia over in the 700 block of North Jefferson Street and discovered that Aung has never had a valid driver’s license.
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Nu Zi La Mok, 52, Fort Wayne, pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalency of .15 percent or more, a Class A misdemeanor.
Sentenced to a year in the Wells County Jail with all but four days suspended — credited as time served, and placed on probation for 361 days.
Ordered to serve 90 days of home detention, pay for his blood test as well as court costs and probation fees.
As part of a plea agreement, charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor; knowingly or intentionally operating a motor vehicle while never having received a driver’s license, a Class C misdemeanor; operating a motor vehicle without insurance, a Class A infraction; and disregarding a stop sign causing a traffic accident, a Class A infraction were all dismissed.
Mok was driving on 450E Sept. 25, 2021, when he failed to stop for preferential 300N. The vehicle he was driving crashed into an eastbound vehicle and both drivers were injured.
Mok reportedly smelled of alcohol and admitted to having drank “a few.” Reportedly multiple bottles of vodka were found in his vehicle and he blew a .260 percent alcohol concentration equivalency on a Breathalyzer test, which is more than three times Indiana’s legal limit for intoxication of .08 percent.
Field sobriety tests were not performed since Mok was injured in the crash.
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Ya Sin, 27, Fort Wayne, pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle with a Schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in his body, a Class C misdemeanor, and possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor.
Sentenced to 180 days in the Wells County Jail on the marijuana possession charge and 60 days in jail on the controlled substance charge. The terms of the sentences are to be served concurrently.
All but 10 days of each sentence were suspended and credited as time served. Placed on probation for 355 days.
Ordered to serve 30 days of home detention, pay for the costs of his blood test as well as court costs and probation fees.
As part of a plea agreement, one count of improper or no license plate light and/or taillight was dismissed.
At 1 a.m. Feb. 12, a Bluffton police officer was monitoring traffic on Main Street when he spotted a northbound a vehicle northbound that did not have an operable driver’s side taillight. The officer turned around and pulled the vehicle over near Capri Court. Ya Sin was the driver.
The officer wrote in his report that he could smell an odor commonly associated with marijuana emanating from the vehicle.
A state trooper arrived to assist.
The officer asked Sin about the odor and he allegedly replied that he had just smoked marijuana about 20 minutes earlier at a gas station.
The officer searched Sin prior to placing him under arrest. The officer allegedly found a cigarette pack in a left sleeve pocket on Sin. Inside the cigarette pack, the officer found a small plastic bag containing a green leafy substance with the odor and appearance of marijuana.
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Colbryn E.M. Miller, 20, Bluffton, violated probation by testing positive for methamphetamine, amphetamine, THC and alcohol, and failure to disclose to his probation officer that he had used methamphetamine.
Ordered to serve a total of 680 days in prison. Credited for a total of six days spent in confinement awaiting disposition of his case.
Upon completion of his term of incarceration his probation will terminate.
Miller was originally sentenced Jan. 21 on charges of possession of methamphetamine, a Level 6 felony; operating a vehicle with a Schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in his body, a Class C misdemeanor; dealing in marijuana, a Level 6 felony; failure to appear in court, a Level 6 felony; and possession of cocaine, a Level 6 felony.
Wells Circuit Court
Criminal Cases
Preliminary plea of not guilty entered for Joshua M. Sargent, 35, Bluffton, charged with dealing in methamphetamine, a Level 4 felony, and dealing in marijuana, a Class A misdemeanor. Bond continued at $11,500.
Sargent is charged with selling a cooperating individual with the DETECT Drug Task Force 3.63 grams of methamphetamine and .51 grams of marijuana in November of 2021.
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Preliminary plea of not guilty entered for Melvin Emilio Hernandez Jr., 21, Bluffton, charged with criminal recklessness wherein the defendants shoots a firearm into a building, a Level 5 felony; and criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor.
Hernandez is charged with discharging a firearm into the front driver’s side tire of a vehicle that his ex-girlfriend was allegedly trying to flee in after she allegedly broke into his Bluffton residence Aug. 7.
Hernandez reportedly insisted to investigating officers that he never pointed the firearm at a person and fired the gun as a means by which to keep the woman from fleeing the scene of the alleged break-in.
The female, Trinity Evelyn Wine, 21, Hartford City, has been arraigned in Wells Superior Court on one count of residential entry — breaking and entering of a dwelling, a Level 6 felony.
Petitions Filed
Petitions for nomination and consent for school board elected office in 2022 have been filed with the Wells County Clerk’s office by:
• Robert Trexler, Bluffton, seeking election to the at-large position on the Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan School District’s Board of Trustees
• Kyle D. Heath, rural Keystone, seeking election to the Chester Township position on the Southern Wells Community Schools Board of Trustees.
Files Report
A report of receipts and expenditures of a political committee has been filed with the Wells County Clerk’s office by Larry heckber for Jefferson Township Trustee, Ossian.
For the period beginning Jan. 1 and ending Aug. 22, the committee showed $149.80 in itemized contributions — from the candidate himself — and the same amount in expenditures — to Baller Signs, Bluffton, for campaign signs.
The committee ended the reporting period with no cash on hand and no debt.
