NAPOLEON - Two cases connected to a large-scale marijuana trafficking investigation that resulted in charges against 10 defendants here in Henry County Common Pleas Court remain tied up in pretrial motions and appeals.
Cases against Tyler Addiego, 37,Grass Valley, Calif., and Micah Gunther, 39, Nevada City, Calif., have been in the pretrial stage since being returned by a county grand jury in March 2021. Each man is charged with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a second-degree felony.
The charges allege that they participated in a large marijuana trafficking enterprise that brought drugs through Henry County. Hundreds of pounds of marijuana were allegedly involved in the enterprise, according to authorities.
The aforementioned defendants' cases were set for a jury trial on April 24 in common pleas court. However, the attorneys for the defendants each filed motions near the trial date, furthering delaying the proceedings.
For example, one of the motions concerns a request for a "prosecutor work product." Motions to dismiss also were been filed in each case last week.
However, Henry County prosecutor Gwen Howe-Gebers also filed an appeal of Judge Amy Rosebrook's decisions in each case with the Third Distrct Court of Appeals in Lima. She told The Crescent-News that "I have some issues with some of the decisions that she (Rosebrook) made in the last couple weeks."
Four of the 10 defendants implicated in the same enterprise have been sentenced in Henry County Common Pleas Court while sentencing remains pending for four others that have entered pleas.
As for the defendants awaiting sentencing, Howe-Gebers said they are pending "because they were going to be cooperating at trial" in a reference to the aforementioned April 24 trial date.
