On September 16, 2024, the Fulton County Grand Jury considered indictments charging individuals with Fulton County crimes, according to the Fulton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Among those indicted was former local business owner BECKY J. RHODES, age 44, of Wauseon, OH, who was indicted on one count of Tampering With Evidence.
On or about August 13, 2024, through August 14, 2024, she allegedly did, knowing that an official proceeding or investigation was in progress, or was about to be or likely to be instituted, alter, destroy, conceal, or remove any record, document, or thing, with purpose to impair its value or availability as evidence in such proceeding or investigation. 24CR130.
Back on June 13, 2023, Rhodes was sentenced in Fulton County to three years of community control along with paying 31,203.45 in restitution after pleading no contest to Grand Theft.
That case involved Rhodes stealing money from a fundraiser, that she hosted, for a co-worker who was injured in a motorcycle crash that claimed the life of his fiance’.
Other indictments included:
-DRAVEN M. WHEELER-HARTSON, age 21, of Wauseon, OH, was indicted on one count of Failure to Comply with an Order or Signal of a Police Officer. On or about August 19, 2024, through August 20, 2024, he allegedly did operate a motor vehicle so as willfully to elude or flee a police officer after receiving a visible or audible signal from a police officer to bring his motor vehicle to a stop and the operation of the motor vehicle by the offender caused a substantial risk of serious physical harm to persons or property. 24CR123.
-DANIEL BROWN, age 46, of Toledo, OH, was indicted on one count of Failure to Appear as Required by Recognizance. On or about August 21, 2024, he allegedly did fail to appear for his Sentencing Hearing as required, after having been released on his own recognizance pursuant to section 2937.29 of the Revised Code and the release was in connection with a felony charge. 24CR129.
-JONATHAN R. HARRISON, age 38, of Delta, OH, was indicted on one count of Possession of a Fentanyl-Related Compound. On or about August 4, 2024, through August 6, 2024, he allegedly did knowingly obtain, possess, or use a controlled substance or a controlled substance analog and the drug involved in the violation was a combination of a fentanyl-related compound and Methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance. 24CR133.
-WILLIAM A. BIBLE. JR., age 53, of Pioneer, OH, was indicted on one count of Aggravated Possession of Drugs. On or about July 31, 2024, he allegedly did knowingly obtain, possess, or use Methamphetamine. 24CR132.
-CHAZ N. FORD, age 44, of Delta, OH, was indicted on two counts of Tampering With Evidence. On or about July 1, 2024, through August 31, 2024, he allegedly did, knowing that an official proceeding or investigation was in progress, or was about to be or likely to be instituted, make, present, or use any record, document, or thing, knowing it to be false and with purpose to mislead a public official who was or might have been engaged in such proceeding or investigation, or with purpose to corrupt the outcome of any such proceeding or investigation. 24CR136.
-THOMAS W. DOLLARHIDE, age 32, of Delta, OH, was indicted on three counts of Tampering With Evidence. On or about June 1, 2024, through August 31, 2024, he allegedly did, knowing that an official proceeding or investigation was in progress, or was about to be or likely to be instituted, make, present, or use any record, document, or thing, knowing it to be false and with purpose to mislead a public official who was or might have been engaged in such proceeding or investigation, or with purpose to corrupt the outcome of any such proceeding or investigation. 24CR135.
-MELARDO PEREZ GOMEZ, age 31, of Wauseon, OH, was indicted on one count of Tampering with Records, one count of Tampering with Evidence, one count of Falsification, one count of Failure to Stop After an Accident, and one count of Operating a Motor Vehicle or Motorcycle Without a Valid License. On or about August 24, 2024, he allegedly did, knowing he had no privilege to do so, and with purpose to defraud or knowing he was facilitating a fraud on Wauseon Police Department, utter a Mexican voter identification card, knowing it to have been tampered with as provided in division (A)(l) of this section and the writing, data, or record was kept by a local, state, or federal governmental entity; he allegedly did, knowing that an official proceeding or investigation was in progress, or was about to be or likely to be instituted, make, present, or use any record, document, or thing, knowing it to be false and with purpose to mislead a public official who was or might have been engaged in such proceeding or investigation, or with purpose to corrupt the outcome of any such proceeding or investigation; he allegedly did knowingly make a false statement, or knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false statement previously made, when the statement was made with purpose to mislead a public official in performing the public official’s official function; he allegedly did, as an operator of a motor vehicle who was involved in a motor vehicle accident or collision with a person or property on a public road or highway and who had knowledge of such accident or collision, fail to immediately stop his motor vehicle and remain at the scene of the accident or collision until he had given his name and address and, if he was not the owner of the vehicle, the name and address of the owner of the motor vehicle, together with the registered number of the motor vehicle, to an operator, occupant, owner, or attendant of a motor vehicle damaged in the accident or collision, a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze; and he allegedly did operate a motor vehicle upon a public road or highway or on public or private property used by the public for purposes of vehicular travel or parking while he did not have a valid driver’s license issued under Chapter 4507 of the Revised Code or a commercial driver’s license issued under Chapter 4506 of the Revised Code, and he has never held a valid driver’s or commercial driver’s license issued by this state or any other jurisdiction. 24CR124
-BROCK J. BURGER, age 35, of Montpelier, OH, was indicted on one count of Aggravated Possession of Drugs. On or about August 7, 2024, he allegedly obtained, possessed, or used Methamphetamine. 24CR137.
-MELISSA A. EATON, age 46, of Jeromesville, OH, was indicted on three counts of Passing Bad Checks. On or about October 13, 2023, through January 22, 2024, she allegedly with purpose to defraud Victim 1, did issue or transfer or cause to be issued or transferred a check dated November 11, 2023, in the amount of $11,499.99, payable to Victim 1; a check dated December 19, 2023, in the amount of $6,000.00, payable to Victim 1; and a check dated December 19, 2023, in the amount of $4,499.99, payable to Victim 1, knowing that they would be dishonored or knowing that a person has ordered or will order stop payment on the checks. 24CR138.
-BRANDON L. HINKLEY, age 26, of Fayette, OH, was indicted on one count of Possession of Cocaine. On or about August 3, 2024, he allegedly did knowingly obtain, possess, or use cocaine. 24CR131.
-GLENDA M. BALRIDGE, age 32, of Alvordton, OH, was indicted on three counts of Complicity in the Commission of an Offense. On or about June 1, 2024, through August 31, 2024, she allegedly did act with the kind of culpability required for the commission of an offense and did conspire with another to commit the offense of 2921.12(A)(2) Tampering with Evidence. 24CR134.
-LUIS G. VAZGUEZ-CRUZ, age 25, of Wauseon, OH, was indicted on one count of Failure to Comply with an Order or Signal of a Police Officer and one count of OVI. On or about September 8, 2024, he allegedly did operate a motor vehicle so as willfully to elude or flee a police officer after receiving a visible or audible signal from a police officer to bring his motor vehicle to a stop and the operation of the motor vehicle by the offender caused a substantial risk of serious physical harm to persons or property and he allegedly did operate any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley within this state, when at the time of the operation he had a concentration of seventeen-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of his breath. 24CR128.
ANGELA K. ROBERTSON, age 45, of Toledo, OH, was indicted on two counts of Involuntary Manslaughter, one count of Reckless Homicide, one count of Possession of Cocaine, one count of Corrupting Another With Drugs, and one count of Permitting Drug Abuse. On or about September 6, 2024, through September 7, 2024, she allegedly did recklessly cause the death of Victim and such death was the proximate result of Angela K Robertson committing or attempting to commit the felony offense of corrupting another with drugs 2923.02(A)(3) and the misdemeanor offense of permitting drug abuse 2925.13(A); she allegedly did knowingly obtain, possess, or use cocaine; she allegedly did knowingly, by any means, administer or furnish to Victim or induce or cause Victim to use cocaine and thereby cause serious physical harm to Victim, or cause Victim to become drug dependent; and she allegedly being the owner, operator, or person in charge of a vehicle did knowingly permit the vehicle to be used for the commission of a felony drug abuse offense, aggravated possession of drugs. 24CR125.
-ADELAIDO HERNANDEZ CRUZ, age 28, of Wauseon, OH, was indicted on one count of Forgery, one count of Tampering with Records, one count of Tampering with Evidence, and two counts of OVI. On or about September 8, 2024, he allegedly with purpose to defraud, or knowing that he was facilitating a fraud, did utter, or possess with purpose to utter, a fraudulent Mexican Identification card, that he knew to have been forged; he allegedly did, knowing he had no privilege to do so, and with purpose to defraud or knowing he was facilitating a fraud on society utter a fraudulent Mexican Identification card, knowing it to have been tampered with as provided in division (A)(l) of this section and the writing, data, computer software, or record was kept by or belonged to a local, state, or federal governmental entity; he allegedly did, knowing that an official proceeding or investigation was in progress, or was about to be or likely to be instituted, make, present, or use any record, document, or thing, knowing it to be false and with purpose to mislead a public official who was or might have been engaged in such proceeding or investigation, or with purpose to corrupt the outcome of any such proceeding or investigation; and he allegedly did operate any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley within this state, when at the time of the operation he was under the influence of alcohol, and had a concentration of seventeen-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of his breath. 24CR126.
It should be noted that an indictment is merely an accusation, and that all criminal defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.