Sixteen individuals appeared in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court for arraignment on indictments issued by the Van Wert County Grand Jury which met last week.  
All defendants appeared to enter pleas before Magistrate Joseph E. Quatman as Judge Charles Steele is out of town. 
Two individuals involved in the cultivation of marijuana in the Hartsock Road area in August were arraigned on indictments charging them with Illegal Cultivation of Marijuana a felony of the third degree.