BUCYRUS — Crawford County’s grand jury was busy for the month of June — it indicted 32 people.
One of them was Galion resident Marcus Williams. He was arrested in September 2015 at the culmination of a six-month long child porn investigation. Since then, the county has filed three different indictments. There was another indictment in October.
This time around, Williams received four additional counts, on top of the 80 counts he already faces. Three of them were charges including fifth-degree felonies for illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material and one fourth-degree felony for pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor.
Williams sits in the Crawford County Jail on a $2.5 million bond, a $500,000 increase.
Prosecutor Matthew Crall said the penalty could amount to life in jail.
“But usually, generally you don’t get life for this,” Crall said. “They end up arguing about certain photos and time get’s docked off for different ones.”
Twelve of the 32 individuals indicted were connected with drug-related charges.
Historically, Judge Shane Leuthold has set steep bonds for drug-related offenses. In June, however, the 12 drug related bonds amounted to $650,000.
But Crall assured the judge is not getting soft on drug offenses.
“This time around it’s the facts of the cases,” noted Crall. “They used to be all higher degrees of felonies.”
Crall pointed out that the alleged drug-related offenses were illicit pills or pill abuse, creating a different scenario than the usual heroin epidemic.
“It’s strange … unusual to only have a couple possession of heroin (offenders). But who knows what that means?” he said.
