Municipal Court: April 21, 2018 Fined $25 for speeding 38 mph in a 25 mph zone were: Brian Keegan Gore, New Haven, Ind.; and Cory Daniel Surber, Findlay. Carla R. G. Woodruff, 974 W. Kohler St., Kenton – speeding 49 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25. Read More
Municipal Court Report: April 14, 2018 Christine L. Mendenhall, 206 N. Hale St., Mount Victory – speeding 46 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25. Read More
Two men sent to prison in county court cases Two men whose addresses were not available in court records were sent to prison after being found guilty of charges in cases heard in Hardin County Common Pleas Court. According to court records from Hardin County Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Walter Lee Johnson, Jr., also known as Walter Lee Jr. Johnson, who is an inmate in the Orient prison, pleaded guilty to one count each of aggravated possession of drugs and attempted tampering with evidence. Read More
Recorder transactions The Hardin County Recorder’s Office reported the following transactions for March: Financing statements filed, 1; deeds filed, 105; mortgages filed, 74; amount of mortgages filed, $31,317,882.40; releases filed, 84; partial releases filed, 1; land contracts filed, 3; power of attorneys filed, 4; easements filed, 2; other instruments filed, 29; federal tax liens filed, 5; federal tax liens released, 3; and … Read More
Kenton pair face drug charges in Union Co. MARYSVILLE — A Kenton couple faces drug charges in Union County after 91 balloons of heroin and other items were discovered inside the woman’s body. A Union County grand jury last week indicted Terry Amos Miller, 31 and his wife, Julie Anne Miller, 39, both of 121 N. Cherry St., Kenton, on one count each of trafficking in heroin, possession of heroin, possession of cocaine and tampering with evidence. Read More
Sheldon guilty of plot to kill estranged wife It didn’t take the Hardin County Common Pleas Court jury long to come up with a decision in the case against Gerrick Anthony “Tony” Sheldon on Tuesday. After deliberating for 2 1/2 hours, the jury returned a guilty verdict on 10 of the 11 counts against Sheldon, who was accused of recruiting his then 15-year-old son for a plot to kill his estranged wife and her son by burning their house down. Read More
Municipal Court Report: March 31, 2018 Steven E. Walter, 671 N. Detroit St., Kenton – speeding 48 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25. Read More
Prosecution attempts to discredit Sheldon’s story Prosecutors on Thursday attempted to put holes in Gerrick “Tony” Sheldon’s claims he was out looking for his son the morning he was stopped by Hardin County Sheriff’s deputies near his ex-wife’s residence as the son was turning him in for plotting to burn down her house. Read More
Defense questions stepmother’s relationship with boys during trial Defense attorneys tried to poke holes in claims by the prosecution that the sons of a Harrod man accused of plotting to kill his estranged wife by conspiring to burn her house down had a relatively normal child-parent relationship with their stepmother in Hardin County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday. Read More
Two brothers back up sibling’s account of dad’s plot against step-mother The siblings of a 16-year-old boy who turned his father into law enforcement for allegedly conspiring to burn down his estranged wife’s home last August, corroborated the boy’s story on Tuesday in Hardin County Common Pleas Court. Read More