A Napoleon man has pleaded guilty to vandalizing a local government agency.
Blake Heisler, 39, on Monday was transported from the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio in Stryker to the courtroom of Wood County Common Pleas Judge Molly Mack.
He had been indicted in January for vandalism, a fifth-degree felony, after he damaged a wall at the Northwest Community Corrections Center.
On Dec. 14, Bowling Green police were dispatched to the corrections center on East Gypsy Lane Road on a vandalism report.
A corrections employee showed the officer a video of the common room at 8:20 p.m. on Dec. 13. The video showed Heisler, who was an inmate, getting up from his chair and running toward a wall. He then jumped into the wall causing a body-size hole in the drywall, according to Wood County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Lara Rump.
The approximate damage to the wall was $500 and the area had to be roped off due to the damage, she said.
On Dec. 21, Heisler was released on an own recognizance bond.
He was arrested in Defiance County on Dec. 22 for violation conditions on a community control sentence.
He had been sentenced in March 2022 to three years on community control after pleading guilty to improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle.
Sentencing in Defiance County is scheduled for April 11.
Rump requested that any sentence imposed in Wood County run concurrent with sentencing in Defiance County.
Mack said sentencing is left to the discretion of the court.
Sentencing was set for May 8 for the local case.
