A second plea deal was put on the record Friday in Allen County Common Pleas Court for Patrick Kollars, 46, who is charged with felonious assault, endangering children and strangulation. Kollars has a week to accept or reject the offer.
J Swygart | The Lima News
LIMA — A Lima man who prosecutors say abused a child and attempted to cause physical harm to that person via strangulation has received a second plea offer that expires Friday, Oct. 11.
Allen County Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kyle Thines put an offer on the official court record in April that called for Patrick Kollars, 46, to plead guilty to one of two second-degree felony charges contained in a grand jury indictment. In exchange for that plea, prosecutors would dismiss a remaining second-degree felony count, along with a fourth-degree felony charge. After Thines heard from Kollars’ attorneys that the offer would be “flatly rejected,” the deal was amended to include a five-year cap on the prison sentence.
Kollars was indicted by an Allen County grand jury in November 2023 on single counts of felonious assault and endangering children, second-degree felonies, and strangulation, a felony of the fourth degree.
According to the indictment, the incidents occurred in September 2023. Kollars allegedly abused a child under the age of 18 and “did knowingly cause or create a substantial risk of physical harm to another by means of strangulation or suffocation.”
A copy of the transcript from an earlier hearing in Lima Municipal Court has been sealed and shielded from public view.
A subpoena had been issued earlier this year at the request of defense attorney Andrea Henning to Thunderbolt Middle School in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, seeking all disciplinary records for a now 17-year-old student there.
