Wells Superior Court
Criminal Cases
Zachary Ross Gaskill, 38, Bluffton, pleaded guilty to domestic battery, a Class A misdemeanor, reduced from a Level 6 felony.
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 report to a batter intervention program, serve 90 days of home detention and pay court costs and probation fees.
Ordered to have no contact with his victim.
Gaskill was charged with battering a female —including fracturing a bone in her right foot — while trying to take her cell phone from her June 24.
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Guillermo Ramirez, 56, Fort Wayne, pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle while never having been issued a driver’s license, a Class C misdemeanor.
Ordered to pay a fine of $14.50 and assessed court costs of $185.50.
Ramirez was driving a Ford pickup truck on Main Street south of Market Street May 11 when a Bluffton police officer decided to perform a license plate check on the truck and discovered the registered owner had a suspended driver’s license. The officer pulled the vehicle over.
Ramirez was not the registered owner but the only form of identification he had was a Mexican identification card.
Infractions
Pamela S. Ramseyer, 64, Bluffton; driving while suspended, Wiley Avenue at Snider Tire.
Dakota S. Fornwalt, 26, rural Ossian; driving while suspended and operating a motor vehicle without insurance, Jefferson Street at LaFever Street, Ossian.
Civil Cases
Writ of possession and recovery of court costs granted to D&D Hoosier’s Realty LLC, Bluffton, against Gregory Freeman, Bluffton.
Judgments and writs of possession entered for BCG Capital, Bluffton, against: Devon Anderson and Kendra Hawkins, Bluffton; Amy Jellison, Bluffton, $1,500.
Complaint for possession and for non-payment of rent totaling $661.58 filed by Bluffton Woods mobile home park against tenant Joseph Jones.
Complaints for payment filed by Indiana Physical Therapy, Fort Wayne, against: Chad B. Clark, Bluffton, $511.34; Chloe Donahoe, Liberty Center, $386.22; Tiareenea M. Donnersbach, Bluffton, $299.56; Michael Dove, rural Bluffton, $1,410.27; Jessica Tappy, Poneto, $259.83; Tamara K. Lugar, Bluffton, $337.83; Victoria Mason, rural Ossian, $413.34; Nicole L. Mathias, Ossian, $348.76; Tre Reaser, rural Bluffton, $845.83; Brian R. Schuyler, Ossian, $281.26; Christopher S. Williams, Bluffton, $331.81.
Petition for replacement vehicle title filed by Russell Harper for a 2003 Cadillac DeVille.
Petition for dissolution filed in the marriage of Robert Coons, Hartford City and Barbara Coons, rural Poneto.
File Petitions
Petitions of nomination and consent for school board office elected in 2022 have been filed in the Wells County Clerk’s office by:
• Tim Wilson, Ossian, seeking election to the at-large position on the Northern Wells Community Schools Board of Trustees.
• Traci Neuenschwander, rural Ossian, seeking election to the Union Township position on the Northern Wells Community Schools Board of Trustees.
