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VAN WERT COUNTY COURT NEWS
Written by Staff Reports   
Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:26 PM

Ten individuals were arraigned Wednesday before Judge Charles Steele in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court: 
Robert Fishbein, 48, Lima, entered a plea of not guilty to 23 counts of telecommunications harassment, two counts were misdemeanors and 21 counts were felonies of the fifth degree.   
Fishbein was indicted for the times he had made telephone calls to a former employee of his at the I&K Distributors in Delphos. Judge Steele gave as part of his original bond conditions that Fishbein have no contact with the victim by any means. Fishbein had his bond revoked and at a later bond hearing was ordered to post a $200,000 cash bond and that he could make no phone calls even for business without another person making and supervising the phone call.   
Fishbein appeared on the newest indictments and shortly after court arraignments was observed in the lobby of the court using a cell phone making phone calls. He was ordered to be arrested for violating his conditions of bond, he was arrested later at his place of employment in Delphos by Delphos Police.  
Fishbein is currently being held in the Van Wert County Jail until a bond hearing is held  which is expected to take place early next week. 
Colt Morris, 24, Lima, and Ashley Woten, 24, Lima, were arraigned on charges of robbery and complicity to commit robbery for the Oct. 31 robbery of the Pac N Sac on North Washington Street in Van Wert.