A Bowling Green man will spend nearly five years in prison for his convictions of
unlawful sexual contact with a minor and interference with custody involving a
reported missing teen. Also a former Bowling Green State University student was
sentenced to four years in prison for pandering sexually oriented material
involving a minor.
Luis Sierra Jr., 32, of Bowling Green, was ordered by Wood County Common Pleas Court
Judge Reeve Kelsey to four years in prison for the sexual contact with a minor
charge and an additional 11 months for the custody count. The victim was under
16 at the time of the crime.
Sierra must register as a Tier II sexual offender. He must also pay a $5,000 fine.

The custody charge stemmed from his arrest in Georgia, involving the disappearance of
a 15-year-old Bowling Green girl. Both Sierra and the victim were arrested last
September after she was alleged to have left with him from Bowling Green High
School. The two were sighted in Virginia, South Carolina and Florida before
their discovery in Georgia.
Steven Montgomery, 20, now of Conneaut, Ohio, will spend four years in prison for his
conviction of four counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving a
minor and one count of possession of criminal tools. He must also register as a
Tier II sexual offender.
The former BGSU student previously pleaded guilty to all the charges. Kelsey ordered
four years on each of the pandering counts, and ordered the sentences to be
served concurrently.
As for the criminal tools, six months was given on that count, also concurrent, and
the desk top computer, monitor and other accessories (criminal tools) were
forfeited to the Perrysburg Police Department.
Other recently ordered to prison include:
• Christopher Baird, 26, of Pemberville, 30 months for burglary.
He and co-defendants were charged with breaking into a home where they were
performing roof work last July. (Judge Robert Pollex)
• Marlon Autman, 40, of Toledo one year for trafficking cocaine and attempted
tampering with evidence. (Judge Alan Mayberry)
• Wes L. Shufelt, 26, formerly of Toledo, six months for receiving stolen property.
Shufelt was convicted of the crime on April 28, 2006, but failed to appear for
sentencing that June. He was recently arrested. (Mayberry)
All prison sentences carry varying terms of post-release control sanctions once the
convicted felons are released.
In addition to those sent to prison, Bobbie Jo Rowe, 41, of Wauseon, pleaded guilty
to engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a second-degree felony. Rowe was
involved in a string of thefts from various box stores involving at least 14
separate incidences of pushing merchandise out the back door of Wal-Mart stores
in Perrysburg, Bowling Green, Bryan and Wauseon. The thefts as indicted occurred
beginning in 2010 and running throughout 2011.
Rowe was ordered to a term of four years community control sanctions by Kelsey. Part
of those sanctions include 72 hours of a special program, 300 hours of community
service and pay more than $24,700 in restitution jointly and severally with her
co-defendants. Rowe is primarily responsible for more than $3,500 of that total
and contingently obligated to pay more than $21,100 in the event the
co-defendants are not convicted and/or not able to pay. She was also fined $500.