Officials executed a drug-related search warrant today as part of an investigation into a methamphetamine ring stemming from Akron and into Seneca County. Seneca County Drug Task Force-METRICH Enforcement Unit, with additional officers and agents from Sandusky County Drug Task Force, Seneca County Sheriff’s Office and Tiffin Police Department, executed a drug-related search warrant on […]

Three people were arrested Tuesday night after Butler County Sheriff’s deputies conducted a traffic stop at Park Avenue and F Street in Hamilton. The driver, Veronica Louis Sacco, 27, was arrested on outstanding warrants out of Montgomery County, according to a release from the sheriff’s office. The front seat passenger, Nathaniel Morningstar, 30, was found […]

As recently as five years ago there wasn’t a single fentanyl case in the Lake County Crime Lab. Now it’s the most commonly seen opioid in the Painesville Township-based lab. “This trend is noted in other hard hit opioid areas in the country,” said Doug Rohde, the crime lab’s supervisor of chemistry and toxicology. The […]

Nine people were charged in connection with local authorities using drug-related search warrant Friday in Norwalk. The Norwalk Police Department and Huron County Sheriff's Office conducted the warrant about 11:25 a.m. at 15 Ford Ave. Each agency is a member of the METRICH Enforcement Unit, a 10-county drug task force. “This was the culmination of […]

An Ashland man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in the trafficking of crystal methamphetamine within Ashland County. Omar Coleman, 41, received the prison sentence in Ashland County Common Pleas Court. The 15 years in prison are all mandatory time for engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and complicity to […]