A West Liberty-area teenager was sentenced to local jail time and community control Tuesday in Logan County Common Pleas Court for his role in a summertime assault.
Nathan Daniels, 19, was sentenced to 12 months in Logan County Jail, 250 hours of community service, restitution, fines and five years’ community control for one count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony.
He pleaded guilty to the charge Dec. 11, and faces up to 12 years in prison should he violate community control upon his release from prison.
Daniels was arrested Aug. 10 along with two other men following a report of a violent fight on State Route 273 just outside Belle Center.
The victim was a 21-year-old from McGuffy that reportedly had been struck multiple times with a tire iron, and had been transported to Mary Rutan Hospital.
An officer of the Bellefontaine Police Department on patrol that evening at the hospital observed the victim being carried into the emergency department with major bleeding from his head and neck area.
The victim was later transported by LifeFlight to Grant Medical Center.
The defendant reported to investigators that he “stepped in” to a fight between the victim and two other men, brothers, Dustin, 20, and Derek, 18, Bruce of Cable; and that the brothers are his best friends. Dustin and Derek each were charged with misdemeanor assault.