Ernest Dale Wireman Sentenced in Starke Circuit Court

  Ernest Dale Wireman, 40, was sentenced in Starke Circuit Court this week.

He had three cases before Judge Kim Hall. Wireman pleaded guilty to a charge of Domestic Battery as a Class D Felony. He was sentenced to 18 months in the Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance as a Class D felony. Wireman was sentenced to 18 months in the Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended.

Wireman admitted in open court that he violated probation and Judge Hall sentenced him to 6 months in the Department of Corrections with no part of the sentence suspended.

Those sentences will run concurrently. He will be allowed to serve his 18 month sentence on home detention.

Ernest Dale Wireman is the son of 61-year-old Ernest Wireman who is currently serving a 110-year prison sentence after he was found Guilty but Mentally Ill in a murder trial in Starke Circuit Court. A jury found that he murdered his wife, Mary Wireman, and shot her son in a subsequent incident.