GEORGETOWN, Ohio | A Mount Orab, Ohio, youth minister is among those recently indicted by a Brown County grand jury.
Charles E. Engle, 49, of Batavia, Ohio, was indicted for alleged inappropriate contact with a 15-year-old girl, while serving as a youth minister at First Baptist Church in Mount Orab.
Engle had been the youth minister for about a year and a half, when he turned himself in to Mount Orab Police on May 2; three incidents cited in the indictment were between November 2012 and April of this year.
According to church officials, the girl reported the incidents to a minister and was advised to contact police. He was terminated from church employment when the allegations arose.
Engle is charged with two counts each of sexual conduct with a minor and sexual battery.
Engle is free on $25,000 cash/surety bond.
Three Maysville men were also indicted on burglary and theft charges.
Greg Sipos, 18, was indicted for burglary and theft; Michael A. Spencer, 37, was indicted on burglary and petty theft; and Steven Turner, 21, was indicted for burglary and theft.
In unrelated indictments, Billy J. Funk. 49, of Georgetown, was indicted for theft; Jeremy Jacobs, 27, of Sardinia, Ohio for two counts burglary, theft and petty theft; Lones Roger Mills, 45, of Hamersville, Ohio for rape and domestic violence; Donald Salisbury, 42, of Georgetown, on two counts felonious assault; and William T. Vaughn, 37, of West Union, Ohio was indicted on possession of heroin and possession of drug abuse instruments charges.
Also in Brown County Court of Common Pleas, Judge Scott T. Gusweiller sentenced four people to jail time for cases in his court.
Jonathan R. Brierly was indicted in March on one count of grand theft of a firearm. Brierly pled guilty in April and was sentenced to 180 days in the Brown County Adult Detention Center where he will have to complete the Brown County Sheriff’s Office drug treatment program and serve two years of community control during probation.
Joe R. Stein pled guilty to two counts of trafficking heroin and forfeited his vehicle and money.
Gusweiler sentenced Stein to 12 months on each count, to run consecutively and the forfeiture of a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee and $784. He will have three years of supervised control after his release from prison.
Derrick Carter pled guilty to receiving stolen property and was sentenced to 12 months in prison, to pay court costs and public defender fees and be on three years of post-release control when released from prison.
Joshua Kern pled guilty to receiving stolen property and was sentenced to 180 days in the BCDC, where he will have to complete the BCSO drug treatment program while serving two years of community control, pay restitution, court costs and public defender fees.
