A Peebles man was sentenced in Highland County Common Pleas Court to nearly five years in prison for multiple assault-related charges and failure to comply.

Wade Page, 50, was sentenced on one count of aggravated assault, a fourth-degree felony, to 11 months, which was to be consecutive to two years for one count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony, which was also ordered to be consecutive to 24 months in prison on one count of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony. Page also was sentenced to a forfeiture specification. Page was given four days of jail-time credit.

Court records stated that beginning on March 8, 2023, Page’s driver’s license was suspended for three years. Page was ordered to pay restitution of $1,725.28 to the Highland County Commissioners through the Highland County Victim Witness Office.

According to court documents for the first count, on or around Oct. 28, 2022, Page, while under the influence of a “sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage,” which was either brought on by a serious provocation by someone that was reasonably sufficient to incite Page into using deadly force, attempted to cause harm to someone by means with an H&R 20-gauge Pardner shotgun.

According to court documents for the second count, on Oct. 28, 2022, Page caused or attempted to cause physical harm to a sergeant using a 1984 Chevy Silverado truck.

According to court documents for the third count, on Oct. 28, 2022, Page, fled from a police officer.

According to court documents for the fourth count, on Oct. 28, 2022, Page possessed items that were subject to forfeiture including the H&R 20-gauge shotgun and the pickup truck.

In other sentencings, Fernando Trevino, Jr. was sentenced to 12 months in prison on one count of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a third-degree felony. Trevino, Jr. was given 69 days of jail-time credit.

Beginning on March 8, 2023, Trevino, Jr.’s driver’s license was suspended for three years and ordered to pay restitution of $299.72 to the victim through the Highland County Victim Witness Office.

According to court documents, on Oct. 28, 2022, somebody went to the Highland County Sheriff’s Office to report that one of their relatives, Trevino, Jr., had stolen car titles from their business on S.R. 73. The person reporting the crime said that Trevino, Jr. had threatened to kill them, stole a white 2012 Dodge Ram and loaded stolen items into the back of it. Three deputies responded to the business, and when they arrived one of the deputies saw a white truck in the parking lot with a bed full of items.

Te truck started to drive slowly in the parking lot with its headlights off. A deputy started to approach the truck and “moments later, the truck drove through the business parking lot and attempted to elude deputies by driving up the hill and through the grass.” The deputy activated the overhead lights on the patrol vehicle to try and stop the truck. The deputy were then able to get directly behind the white truck as it traveled up the hill and through the grass before entering S.R. 73.

On S.R. 73, the truck increased its speed as the three deputies followed behind in cruisers. The truck went northbound on S.R. 73 until it turned right on Carl Smith Road and continued its speed increase. As the truck neared the intersection of Hobart Road and North High Street, it ran a red light before going southbound onto North High Street.

When the truck got to the intersection of North High Street and Harry Sauner Road, it didn’t obey the traffic control device and almost hit another vehicle. The truck driver turned right on West North Street and turned right again on S.R. 73. It then made another right turn onto Catherine Street before it went back onto North High Street. It turned left onto Harry Sauner Road where the truck hit a Jeep before hitting a curb, which resulted in the left tire and rim of the truck bending sideways. With the truck traveling on three wheels, it approached the intersection of Harry Sauner Road and S.R. 73.

The driver tried to turn right onto S.R. 73 and hit a guardrail white turning, resulting in the truck becoming disabled. The deputies approached the truck and ordered the driver to exit the vehicle. The driver complied with this request and was identified as Trevino, Jr.

Shawn Howland, 22, Greenfield, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on one count of aggravated trafficking of meth, a third-degree felony. Howland was given two days of jail-time credit. He was ordered to pay restitution of $240 to the Highland County Victim Witness Office.

According to court documents, on May 31, 2022, Howland sold or offered to sell meth.

Marty Martin, 51, Mount Orab, was sentenced to three years of community control on one count of receiving stolen property, a fourth-degree felony. Court records stated that if Martin violates any of the community control sanctions, he would be given a sentence of six to 18 months and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000.

According to court documents, on Oct. 14, 2022, a deputy met with a victim and their siblings at their farm on Waits Road. They reported that various antiques and farm supplies were gone from their barns and the old house on the property and that several missing items were in the front yard of a residence on S.R. 134 north of Buford.

A deputy went to the residence and made contact with someone. The deputy asked about the items in the yard, which they said mostly belonged to Martin. The residents gave the deputy permission to look around the property.

The victims identified about two truckloads of items taken from their residence. While they were sorting the items, Martin got to the property and said that he purchased the items. The value of that property was equal to or exceeded $7,500, but was less than $15,000.

Kyle Hollon, 29, Hillsboro, was sentenced to three years of community control on one count of aggravated possession of a fentanyl-related compound, a fourth-degree felony. Hollon must successfully complete substance use disorder treatment and aftercare at TCC. If Hollon violates any of the community control sanctions, he would be given a sentence of between six and 18 months and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000.

According to court documents, on May 5, 2022, law enforcement arrived at the Greystone Motel located on U.S. Route 50 in Liberty Township to find a suspect with an outstanding felony warrant. A detective saw Hollon inside a vehicle on the property and asked him if the person he was looking for was inside a room. The detective followed Hollon to the room’s door and he went inside, yelled for the person to come out and said that the cops were there.

The detective saw that the other person inside the room. The person the detective was looking for came to the door. The detective noticed items they believed to be associated with the possession and trafficking of illegal substances.

Hollon and advised him of his Miranda Rights and asked said the room was rented in his name. During the search of the room, the detective found a glass container that held an unknown substance, a folded paper containing an unknown substance, two plastic bags of unknown substances, a plastic container containing an unknown substance and various drug paraphernalia. At that point Hollon said he wanted the search to stop.

The substances found inside the room were submitted to BCI for analysis and were determined to be 7.54 grams of meth and 1.10 grams of a fentanyl-related compound.

Reach Jacob Clary at 937-402-2570.