Cadiz man sentenced in sex crime, assault cases

John E. Heinzman, 39, of Cadiz, was sentenced to four to six years in prison in two cases involving sex crimes and an assault from this year.

Judge T. Shawn Hervey handed down the sentence April 21. The case included three charges from 2025: pandering obscenity to a minor, a second-degree felony; illegal use of a minor involving nudity, another second-degree felony; and voyeurism, a fifth-degree felony.

In the 2026 case, Heinzman was charged with assault, a fifth-degree felony. Harrison County Prosecutor Lauren Knight told the court Heinzman had pleaded guilty in both cases, with the four to six years attached to the 2025 charges. She added the state would not oppose judicial release after Heinzman serves two years and completes the program at the Eastern Ohio Correctional Center.

“He would be a Tier II offender based on those offenses,” Knight said.

Hervey handed down an 11-month sentence for the assault charge, which is to run concurrently with the sex offenses. Heinzman’s attorney, Chuck Amato, said his client understood he had voluntarily entered his guilty plea.

Hervey said Heinzman will be barred from coming within 1,000 feet of a school or any day care center. He also is required to register as a Tier II sex offender “over the next 25 years in the county where he works, lives or goes to school.”

In the case of Mickey L. Green, the Tippecanoe resident charged with murder in the death of Steven Andrews April 5, 2025, appeared in court, but his case did not go on the record. He also is represented by Amato and faces three other charges involving weapons violations and one assault charge, a second-degree felony.

A pretrial conference was held in chambers, and his May 5 jury trial was vacated with a new date set for July 14. A motion hearing is scheduled for July 13.