PIKE- The Pike County Commissioners have filed legal action against a former county sheriff in the attempts to recover a portion of his past compensation.
Now serving a three-year prison term, Charles Reader is the defendant and could be ordered to repay his salary and other expenses that county covered during his prior suspension.
Readerâs suspension lasted from July 10, 2019 to September 24, 2020, which ended following his guilty plea on several counts of theft in office and tampering with evidence. His term of office started in January 2017 and ended about two-and-a-half years later after Pike County Court of Common Pleas Judge Chris Martin issued a provisional suspension.
WAVERLY Sometime in the next few days, Tony Rhoden will climb into his pickup truck and drive out to Scioto Burial Park to freshen up the flowers in the vases on his family’s headstone and spread some mulch around its concrete base.
He stops here often, where one of his brothers and a sister-in-law, two nephews and a niece all are buried side by side. But this next trip? This time it will be different. Because he’ll have some news to share while there.
In a stunning and last-minute development that shocked a packed courtroom, Wagner pleaded guilty Thursday to 23 charges, including eight counts of aggravated murder. He has been cooperating with investigators and has agreed to testify against his parents and older brother, who also are charged in the killings.
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Edward Jake Wagner is arraigned at the Pike County Courthouse on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018 in Waverly, Ohio.
In the Pike County Common Pleas Court Thursday, Edward “Jake” Wagner changed his plea to guilty for all 23 of the charges he faces. He stood flanked by his attorneys in a black button down shirt, hands clasped in front of him.
At times he appeared to smile as he repeatedly responded “I am guilty your honor,” while the judge read through each individual count and specification.
Judge Randy Deering presided, and he explained many of those counts carry mandatory minimum sentences. Early on he added them together to explain the full scope of the sentence Wagner is facing.