(3-22-24) Auglaize County Common Pleas Court Judge Fredrick Pepple ordered former New Knoxville boys basketball coach Cole Fischbach (29) Delphos to finish the remaining 169 days of his suspended sentence at the Auglaize County Jail after Fischbach admitted to violating special terms of his probation by using Snapchat and other social media sites in January. He was booked into the Auglaize County Jail on the 20th on a felony charge of a probation violation.
The use of social media sanctions comes from his 2022 trial when a 14-year-old New Knoxville female student testified that Fischbach kissed and groped her and sent her sexually explicit photos.
In 2022 the jury convicted Fischbach of two misdemeanor counts of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles but acquitted him of five related felony charges.
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Fischbach has already served six months of his one-year sentence at the Auglaize County Jail in 2022, after the other six months were suspended under the condition that Fischbach abstain from Snapchat, among other sanctions, while he was on probation.
Fischbach said that he only used Snapchat to message women he met on dating sites. According to Auglaize County Jail records Fishbach is listed as being married.
Auglaize County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Laia Zink
“He had been using these apps and hiding them since he got released from jail.”
Judge Pepple sentenced Fischbach to the remaining 180 days of his sentence with 11 days credited for time spent in jail awaiting trial.
Given the option to agree to new sanctions prohibiting Fischbach from using any encrypted messaging application or device capable of accessing the internet in exchange for early release, Fischbach decided to serve an additional two weeks in jail.
Mercer County Outlook 