A discretionary sentence was handed down by Starke Circuit Court Judge Kim Hall in three separate cases involving defendant Eric G. Wireman.
Wireman, 28, pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the state on charges of possession of methamphetamine as a Level 6 Felony and two counts of burglary as a Level 5 Felony.
Wireman was sentenced to two years on the charge of possession of methamphetamine which was the cap outlined in the plea agreement. He admitted to Judge Hall that he possessed methamphetamine while being treated for an overdose at Starke Hospital on Feb. 20, 2016.
On Dec. 10, 2015, Wireman admitted that he broke into the estate of Sescoe Wireman closely after Sescoe’s death. He was arrested after neighbors saw him committing the act. On this charge of burglary, he was sentenced to four years, the cap outlined in the plea agreement.
On the second charge of burglary, Eric G. Wireman admitted that he broke into the same house on Apr. 17, 2017, this time occupied by Eric’s Aunt Sherry Wireman, the executor of Sescoe Wireman’s estate. Judge Hall sentenced him to the cap of five years as outlined in the plea agreement.
The possession charge and the first burglary charge will be served concurrently, or at the same time, in the Indiana Department of Corrections. The second burglary charge will be served consecutively to the other charges in the Indiana Department of Corrections for a total of nine years.
Wireman was given 673 days credit of days served. No part of the sentence was suspended. No restitution was ordered.
