The Hardin County Recorder’s Office reported the following transactions for September: Financing statements filed, 6; financing statements released, 1; deeds filed, 136; mortgaged filed, 100; amount of mortgages filed, $59,479,992; releases filed, 75, partial releases filed, 1; land contracts filed, 4; power of attorneys filed, 3, easements filed, 1; other instruments filed, 56; military discharges filed, 2.

Kyle Joseph Yoho, Heath – speeding 51 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25. William E. Ward, Westerville – speeding 70 mph in a 55 mph zone, fined $25.

Following, failure to pay child support and failure to report proof of seeking work, contempt. Hearing August 16, 2017. Found in willful contempt of motion in support contempt and for lump sum judgment and jail sentence imposed: Stephanie Zent, 30 days; Joshua Meekins, 30 days and Brandon Skaggs, 90 days.

David M. Yoder, 501 S. Wayne St., Kenton – speeding 45 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $15.

The Hardin County Probate and Juvenile Courts will be closed Monday from 10:30 a.m. to noon to allow the staff to attend a funeral.

Kaylee Shaye Marling, 341 S. Main St., Dunkirk – speeding 40 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $15. Chantel Ellen Smith, Wharton – speeding 48 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25.

Hardin County Recorder Brenda Rainsburg released the following property transfers for August: Mary A. Felasco to Joseph Sukup, no acres, Ada Lands, in part of Section 22, Liberty Twp. Tax $316.

A Kenton man was sentenced to a total of 28 months in prison after a Hardin County Common Pleas Court jury found him guilty of drug charges According to court records from Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Matthew Jarvis Beltz, 723 W. Lima St., Lot 47, was charged with one charge of possession of heroin and, in a second case, a single count of possession of heroin with a specific finding that the amount of heroin possessed was ten unit doses or more.

Shawn G. Cook, Convoy – speeding 49 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25.

A Kenton man was sent to prison for two years after he was found guilty of intimidation in a case heard in Hardin County Common Pleas Court. According to court records from Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Thomas G. Wolfenbarger, 808 N. Main St., Kenton, pleaded guilty to one charge each of intimidation, domestic violence and criminal damaging or endangering.