A former student teacher at Waite high school faced a judge today. Erika Bentley entered a plea of no contest to one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Last month, Bentley pleaded not guilty. She is scheduled to be sentenced on December 21. If found guilty, she could spend up to 18 months in jail.
A state troper charged with beating a man unconcious was in front of a judge again. Jason Urbina pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge after a Lucas County grand jury indicted him on felonious assault charges. Police say he beat up a victim in the parking lot of the Wingate Hotel in Sylvania back in August. If convicted, he faces up to 6 months behind bars. His sentencing is scheduled for November 17. Since the incident, authorities tell us Urbina has resigned from the patrol.
A Toledo man, accused of killing two women, will not face trial until next spring. Rodney Wahl Sr. was scheduled to go to trial last week on murder charges stemming from the deaths of 26-year-old Jennifer Shively and 42-year-old Ursula Graves.
A white supremacist from the state of Oregon will spend time behind bars on charges that he mailed a hangman's noose to a civil rights activist in northwest Ohio. Daniel Lee Jones faces 18 months in prison. Last March, Jones admitted that he sent a noose two years ago to a Lima man who's involved with that chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Jones also faces three years of supervised release.
