(7-11-19) Zequiel Ahrns (23) of Minster has been sentenced in Mercer County Common Pleas Court to 18 years in prison on six felony charges. The charges stem from a Mercer County Adult Detention Facility inmate’s (Joseph D. Meinerding) overdose and an attack on two of the facilities corrections officers.
Ahrns will serve 12 years before another hearing will be held to determine if three more years will be added to his sentence due to prior incidents.
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The charges stemmed after an inmate overdosed in March due to drugs that police say was brought into the facility by Ahrns, who was already serving time. Days later another incident took place, Ahrns would attack two corrections officers and took their tasers hoping to escape.
Mercer County Outlook 
Justice was definitely not served in this case, Zeke Ahrns was withdrawing from drugs and not in his right state of mind when the female guard tripped and escalated the situation, had the guard done her job correctly this would have never happened, Zeke has never been in any trouble in the past until his drug addiction , Mercer county court wants to punish people instead of rehabilitate, in this case the time is way to much for the crime!
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He literally took a corrections officer hostage with a taser and you’re saying he shouldn’t be serving jail time because “he was going through withdrawal”? Really? You have got to be kidding me.
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No one on the outside knows how it happened. Withdraws aint nothing to joke about. It can and will alter your brain. Which messes up your whole working system. The egg commercial is correct. This is your brain….. this is your brain on drugs.
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No one on the outside knows how it happened. Withdraws aint nothing to joke about. It can and will alter your brain. Which messes up your whole working system. The egg commercial is correct. This is your brain….. this is your brain on drugs.
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