Court Roundup: Guernsey County Common Pleas Court
Pleas
Samantha N. Yannacey, 26, Pleasant City, plead guilty to identity theft, a fourth-degree felony, and theft, a fifth-degree felony.
Amma Gabrielle R. Berman, 27, Allison Park, Pa., plead guilty to single counts of aggravated possession of drugs and possession of LSD, fifth-degree felonies.
May 3
May 5
Trial
Delarrin H. Moore, 37, Akron, convicted of failure to comply with the order of signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony, with a condition he caused substantial risk of serious physical harm to persons or property.
May 6
Sentencings
Joseph S. Nicholson, 27, Cambridge, sentenced to 27 months in prison, which was suspended for Community Control sanctions on convictions of violation of fireworks manufacture prohibitions and grand theft (firearm or dangerous ordnance), third-degree felonies, and breaking and entering, a fifth-degree felony.
The Daily Jeffersonian
A Senecaville man accused of scamming elderly Guernsey County residents plead guilty Monday to multiple counts of theft that stem from reported scams involving home improvements and construction jobs.
Mark A. Murphy, 61, entered the guilty pleas to four counts of theft, fifth-degree felonies, during a hearing in the Guernsey County Common Pleas Court.
Murphy is scheduled to be sentenced on July 14. Murphy faces up to 48 months in prison.
The court ordered a pre-sentence investigation report be completed prior to the sentencing hearing. Bond for Murphy was continued.
The charges against Murphy are the result of two separate indictments returned during separate grand jury sessions in August and December.
WHIZ News
Null Found Guilty In Connection to Guernsey County Murder
A woman involved in the shooting death of a Newark Man in Kimbolton last year was convicted after a four-day jury trial in Guernsey County. The Guernsey County Sheriff’s Office says 27-year-old Katelan Marie Null of Mt Vernon was found guilty of Complicity to Murder, Complicity to Involuntary Manslaughter and Complicity to Felonious Assault in the death of Alexander Anderson. Investigators say they were called by a woman on August 23
rd 2020 who reported that her friend Alexander Anderson had been shot and was lost in rural Guernsey County.
Katelan Marie Null – Photo: GCSO
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio A woman involved in the shooting death of a Newark man in 2020 on Zion Road near Kimbolton has been convicted following a four day jury trial in the Guernsey County Common Pleas Court.
According to Sheriff Jeffrey D. Paden, 27-year-old Katelan Marie Null of Mt. Vernon, was found guilty on Thursday following a jury deliberation, of Complicity to Commit Murder, Complicity of Involuntary Manslaughter and Complicity to Felonious Assault. Null is facing 15 years to life in prison and will be sentenced by Guernsey County Common Pleas Court Judge Daniel G. Padden on Wednesday May 12th at 3:00 p.m.
A woman alleged to be the catalyst behind a fatal shooting last year in northern Guernsey County was convicted by jurors Thursday of three counts of complicity in the commission of an offense.
Katelyn M. Null, 27, was convicted of complicity to murder, an unclassified felony; complicity to involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony; and complicity to felonious assault, a second-degree felony. Like I told the jurors, she set the wheels in motion, said Guernsey County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Angler of Null s role in the shooting death of 29-year-old Alexander Anderson on Aug. 23, 2020.
The Newark resident was pronounced dead at the scene on Zion Road.