Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Tyler Blankemeyer has been selected as the 2022 Trooper of the Year for the Defiance Post. Fellow officers assigned to the Defiance Post and dispatchers assigned to the Van Wert Post, chose Trooper Blankemeyer based upon leadership abilities, professional ethics, courteous treatment of others, enthusiastic work attitude and cooperation with supervisors, peers and the public alike. This is now the third year in a row Blankemeyer has been selected for this recognition. He joined the Ohio State Highway Patrol in 2019 and has served at the Defiance Post since then. He is originally from Pandora and is a graduate of Fort Jennings High School.