Second suspect in Grube case pleads not guilty

A 22-year-old charged with obstructing justice in the investigation into the 2011 slayings of Robert and Colleen Grube pleaded not guilty today.

Bryant L. Rhoades, of Union City, Ohio, is alleged to have purposefully hindered law enforcement in their probe into unsolved homicides. Rhoades was indicted by a grand jury last week, where is bond was set at $3.5 million.

The judge continued the bond, subject to 10 percent.

William Klug, a criminal defense attorney out of Lima, has been appointed to represent Rhoades.

Mercer County sheriff’s deputies arrested Rhoades on March 26. He is in the Mercer County Jail on $350,000 bail.

Authorities found the father and daughter in late November, bound with duct tape and shot, following what appeared to be a robbery of the farmhouse in Fort Recovery where they lived. Colleen, 47, lived there and took care of Robert, 70, who was disabled.

The elder Grube was wheelchair bound because of a stroke.

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