The following individuals appeared Wednesday before Judge Charles Steele in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court:

Jeremy G. Baer, 27, Paulding, was arraigned and entered a not guilty plea to a charge of grand theft, a felony of the fourth degree. 
According to the Van Wert County Sheriff Department, Baer, a former employee of an Ohio City manufacturing plant, allegedly took aluminum molds from the company which were sold for scrap metal. The alleged thefts were to have occurred some time between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31.