Wells Superior Court
Criminal Cases
Victor Mandell Thomas, 50, Bluffton, pleaded guilty to battery resulting in bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor.
Sentenced to a year in the Wells County Jail, with all but eight days suspended — credited as time served — and placed on probation for 357 days.
Ordered to serve 100 days of home detention, pay court costs and probation fees.
Thomas was charged with punching the girlfriend of his estranged wife in the face at the home the two women share June 10.
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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.’
