The letters of Big Oak stand for Breaking Into Gangs - Opiate Addiction Knockdown, which is just what law enforcement did. One-hundred people are charged in a 756-count drug trafficking indictment. At the American Legion in East Liverpool Tuesday. The operation filed charges across Ohio and West Virginia, including Columbiana and Hancock counties. The operation […]

A Cleveland man who local authorities said was the main supplier of heroin, fentanyl and carfentanil in Wayne County was sentenced to prison Wednesday. Charles “Quick” Daniels, 39, 7400 Wade Park, Apt. 419, was sentenced to a mandatory sentence of eight years in prison by Judge Corey Spitler. Daniels was found guilty last month by […]

A man who dealt a deadly mix of heroin and fentanyl to a man, who died, was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison. Omar Israel-Griffin, 27, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of distribution of a controlled substance on Wednesday. Police investigated after a man was found dead of an overdose in his Anderson […]

Since Charles Daniels, who goes by the street name “Quick,” has been in the Wayne County Jail since April, there has been an apparent decrease in opiate overdoses. Local organizations and families will see that decrease sustained as Daniels was found guilty Wednesday of charges he was trafficking heroin, fentanyl and carfentanil in Wooster. Daniels, […]

Since Charles Daniels, who goes by the street name “Quick,” has been in the Wayne County Jail since April, there has been an apparent decrease in opiate overdoses. Local organizations and families will see that decrease sustained as Daniels was found guilty Wednesday of charges he was trafficking heroin, fentanyl and carfentanil in Wooster. Daniels, […]