Wells Superior Court
Criminal Cases
Steven J. Detamore, 32, Bluffton, pleaded guilty to harboring a non-immunized dog, a Class B misdemeanor.
Sentenced to 1680 days 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 60 days of home detention, pay court costs and probation fees.
Officers responded to the 1200 block of Virginia Court Sept. 22 after a man reported that his neighbor’s dog, a Yorkshire/dachshund mix, had run into his yard and bit him while he was mowing. The man reported the dog had bitten both him and his wife on previous occasions.
The investigating officer in the matter noted in his report that the dog’s owners had previously been cited for harboring a non-immunized dog.
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Jacob Scott Patterson, 27, Fort Wayne, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.
Sentenced to 180 days in the Wells County Jail, with all but two days suspended, and placed on probation for 178 days.
Ordered to pay court costs and probation fees.
Bluffton police received a report at 3:22 a.m. Oct. 21 of several men being loud in the area of Eastmoor Drive and Helen Drive in the Bluffton Woods mobile home park. Officers responded and located Patterson and two other men standing in the street being loud. An officer told Patterson to quiet down to which Patterson reportedly replied he could be as loud as he pleased.
He was again told to talk less loudly or he would be arrested for disorderly conduct. Allegedly he continued to insist he could be as loud as he wanted. The other two men also reportedly tried to get him to quiet down.
He was eventually placed under arrest.
The police report filed with the court observed that Patterson’s alcohol concentration equivalency at the time of his arrest was .155 percent, or nearly twice Indiana’s legal limit for intoxication of .08 percent.
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Victoria Brown, 21, Bluffton, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.
Sentenced to 180 days in the Wells County Jail, with all but six days suspended, and placed on probation for 359 days.
Ordered to pay court costs and probation fees.
At 4 p.m. Oct. 15, Bluffton police were dispatched to Premier Flats apartments on a report of a loud domestic disturbance between a male and a female that shared one of the apartments.
Brown reportedly was the female involved.
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Michael Wayne Springer, 36, Connersville, pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana with a prior conviction for the same offense, a Class A misdemeanor; and operating a vehicle with a Schedule I or II controlled substance or its metabolite in his blood, a Class C misdemeanor.
Sentenced to a year in the Wells County Jail on the A misdemeanor, with all but eight days suspended — credited as time served, and sentenced to 60 days in the Wells County Jail, with all but eight days suspended — credited as time served. The terms of the sentences are to be served concurrently.
Placed on probation for 357 days.
Ordered to pay for the cost of his blood test, court costs and probation fees.
Charges of unsafe lane movement and, a Class C infraction and operating a motor vehicle without insurance, a Class A infraction, were dismissed.
On Dec. 17, law enforcement was put on alert for a vehicle weaving in the road south from Dustman Road on Main Street.
A Bluffton police officer spotted the silver 2014 Jeep Patriot and pulled it over on South Main Street near Arnold Street.
While speaking with the driver, identified as Springer, the officer noted an odor of marijuana — both raw and burned — emanating from the interior of the vehicle.
The officer became suspicious that Springer might be impaired because he was struggling to find his phone and left the vehicle in drive when he tried to exit it.
Upon questioning, Springer admitted to having “vaped” marijuana while driving home. He handed the officer a vape pen containing a cartridge labeled as containing THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
A search of the vehicle turned up a “Twisted Galactic Jack” brand container labeled as a marijuana product; rolling paper, marijuana cigarettes a black container labeled “VapinApe,” marijuana wax, a container with a green leafy remnants inside, a plastic bag with various sealed THC vaping cartridges and blunts — the slang term for marijuana cigars.
The items reportedly had been purchased by Springer at a marijuana dispensary in Battle Creek, Mich.
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Preliminary plea of not guilty entered for Braxton Williams, 19, Matthews, charged with possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor. Cory Spreen appointed public defender.
While monitoring traffic on Ind. 1 at 900S Nov. 20, a sheriff’s deputy spotted a vehicle that did not have a functioning license plate light. The deputy further observed the vehicle was traveling south with its hazard lights on. The deputy pulled over the 2004 Dodge Dakota and spoke with its driver, Williams.
As he was speaking with Williams, he observed an odor of raw marijuana emanating from the vehicle.
Williams reportedly admitted to the deputy that in the center console of the vehicle was a “joint” — a slang term for a marijuana cigarette, and a “dab ring” — a slang term for a waxy product containing THC oil. THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
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Preliminary plea of not guilty entered for Ryan Scott, 22, Fort Wayne, charged with knowingly or intentionally operating a motor vehicle while never having been issued a driver’s license, a Class C misdemeanor. Cory Spreen appointed public defender.
Scott was driving south on Ind. 1 at 5:34 p.m. Nov. 28 when he reportedly suffered a seizure and drove a vehicle off the road.
Scott reportedly admitted to the deputy that he had never obtained a driver’s license and due to his medical condition should probably not drive a vehicle.
Civil Cases
Complaint on note totaling $80,166.46 and to foreclose mortgage at 2223W-U.S. 224, Uniondale, filed by U.S. Bank Trust National Association, Fort Wayne, against Rhonda K. Eberle.
Wells Circuit Court
Civil Cases
Complaints for payment filed by Credit Acceptance Corp., Columbus, Ohio, against: Jonathan Stevens, Bluffton, $6,651.17; Tara Premo, Ossian, and Keith Smith, Ossian, $5,411.27.
Timothy Sipe sworn as deputy prosecuting attorney for the 28th Judicial Court.
Petition for dissolution filed in the marriage of Anna Perkins, Zanesville, and Bailey Perkins, Fort Wayne.
Bluffton City Court
Randy E. Veach, 59, Indianapolis; 69 mph-55 zone, Ind. 218 east of 400E.
Michael A. Burbrink, 62, rural Shelbyville; 64 mph-45 zone, Ind. 1 at 200S.
