Deonte R. Dickey, 21, of Cincinnati was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 240 months in prison and ordered to pay $7,000 in restitution for funeral costs for distributing heroin and fentanyl that resulted in death. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Timothy J. Plancon, Special Agent in […]

A man who admitted to participating in drug deals while behind bars in Ottawa County was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday. John Wyatt, 35, of Beaver, Ohio, pleaded guilty to complicity to conveyance of drugs onto grounds of a detention facility, a third-degree felony, in Ottawa County Common Pleas […]

A man who smuggled drugs into two detention facilities — a state prison and the Ottawa County jail — was sentenced to prison Friday on the heels of his jury trial. Corwin Qualls, 40, had his trial in the Ottawa County Common Pleas Court for the smuggling and dealing drugs in the county jail while […]

A Port Clinton man accused of dealing heroin and fentanyl accepted a plea agreement. Polk Drive resident Clayton Havens, 36, appeared in the Ottawa County Common Pleas Court Monday and pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted aggravated drug trafficking. A grand jury originally indicted Havens on three counts of aggravated drug trafficking and two […]

Three people were arrested and cash and drugs were seized Friday during a search of a Trenton home, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. The Butler County Undercover Regional Narcotics Unit (BURN) conducted a search at 401 Sal Boulevard, Apt. A and nearly $9,000 in cash along with approximately 36 grams of fentanyl were […]