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Sex offender gets prison for violation

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor

Six people appeared for a variety of hearings in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday, including a Van Wert man sentenced to prison for failing to register as a sex offender.

Court artwork 12-2013 copyDustin Hiser, 31, was sentenced by Van Wert County Probate-Juvenile Judge Kevin Taylor to 17 months in prison on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender, a felony of the fourth degree. Hiser pleaded guilty to the charge during a hearing held December 17.

During sentencing, Judge Taylor did give Hiser credit for 93 days already served.

A second case was also heard by Judge Taylor.

Bronson Pate, 33, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to a charge of aggravated trafficking in drugs, a felony of the fourth degree. A presentence investigation was ordered by Judge Taylor and sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.

Four hearings were also presided over by retired Judge Charles D. Steele.

William Crutchfield, 42, of Van Wert, denied charges he violated his community control probation by being unsuccessfully terminated from the Western Ohio Regional Treatment and Habilitation (WORTH) Center in Lima. A hearing in the case will be set for next week.

Andrew Taylor, 29, of Van Wert, entered a plea of guilty to a prosecutor’s bill of information charging him with two counts of possession of heroin, each a felony of the fifth degree.

Dezmond Bywaters, 23, of Van Wert, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted failure to register as a sex offender, a felony of the fourth degree, reduced from failure to register as a sex offender, a third-degree felony.

Kasey Schisler, 26, of Van Wert, changed his plea to guilty to one count each of trafficking in drugs and trafficking in heroin, both felonies of the fifth-degree, and possession of heroin, a fourth-degree felony.

Judge Steele ordered presentence investigations in all three cases and sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.

POSTED: 01/29/15 at 8:30 am. FILED UNDER: News