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COLLINS |
A man’s whining that local jail time would cost him his job found himself facing prison time instead Monday in Logan County Common Pleas Court.
Judge Mark S. O’Connor warned Jason Collins, 37, of Portsmouth, that if he continued to complain about the local jail sentence his lengthy record of prior convictions warranted a prison sentence.
Mr. Collins, who was being sentenced for a fifth-degree felony vandalism of government property, ignored the warning of the judge and the advice of his attorney and persisted in his argument that spending 60 days in the Logan County Jail would mean he would lose his job.
Judge O’Connor then handed down the 11-month prison sentence. He can apply for judicial release after serving at least a month in the institution.
He originally was charged with theft of a motor vehicle for taking a car owned by James Cunningham, 234 E. Harrison St., Lakeview, on Jan. 16. After leaving the residence, he crashed the car and was arrested for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
During transport to the Logan County Jail, he kicked at the inside of the cruiser and caused damage to the door.
He was ordered to pay $1,000 restitution to the Cunninghams.
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NICHOLS |
• Ronnie Nichols, 38, of Mansfield, was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of breaking and entering. He was charged for break-ins at Stemble’s Quality Meats, 18 E. State Route 273, Belle Center, on Oct. 6 and Nov. 23 and the Little Red Mill, 101 N. Elizabeth St., Belle Center.
He and codefendants Carl Vasquez, 36, and Coty Cantrell, 29, both also of Mansfield, were arrested in Hardin County after a caller reported suspicious activity near Stemble’s on Nov. 23 and was able to provide a description of a vehicle.
The year in prison was ordered to be served consecutive to 15 months Mr. Nichols is serving on an unrelated case from Richland County.
• John Porter, 46, of Bellefontaine, was placed on community control and ordered to pay $5,753 in restitution to Kathleen Robinson after a no contest plea to theft from the elderly for an incident arising out of a work contract.
Mr. Porter said he was prepared to make the restitution payment immediately.
• Bradley S. Couch, 37, of Bellefontaine, was sentenced to 90 days in the Logan County Jail as part of an intensive five-year community control program. He was sentenced for trafficking in drugs.
Pleas entered
Michael W. O’Connor Jr., 21, of DeGraff, entered a guilty plea to a fifth-degree felony count of importuning and will be required to register as a Tier I sex offender.
Deputies of the Logan County Sheriff’s Office found him with a 15-year-old girl in an automobile at 2:45 a.m. Nov. 5 at Finfrock Park in Quincy.
He will be sentenced Aug. 1.
• Katrina R. Robinson, 26, of Russells Point, entered a guilty plea to trafficking in heroin, a fifth-degree felony, and trafficking in fentanyl, a fourth-degree felony. She was charged in connection with undercover drug buys coordinated by the Logan County Joint Drug Task Force in late April.
Sentencing was set for Aug. 1