Stories about increasing heroin use throughout the country are a dime a dozen, it seems.  Police are seeing it more and more on the streets. Judges are seeing crimes which are ultimately related to it play out day after day and coroners are calling more and more deaths its fault on certificate after certificate.

A Rittman woman accepted a plea deal Tuesday and faces prison for providing heroin to a Burbank man who later died from an overdose. Jennifer Lynn Phillips, 33, of 330 Villa St., Apt. 36, entered pleas of no contest in Wayne County Common Pleas Court to charges of trafficking in heroin, tampering with evidence and […]

Sheriff Phil Plummer held a news conference outlining what he called one of the largest heroin seizures in the Miami Valley Tuesday afternoon. 40-year-old Jose Morales Medina was arrested Monday after a traffic stop as part of a two-month investigation where members of the Miami Valley Bulk Smuggling Task Force Officers found in total, $450,000 […]

It’s everywhere. That was the consensus on heroin Tuesday afternoon during a town hall meeting in Independence hosted by radio station WTAM-1100’s Mike Trivisonno. “It’s in every suburb, it’s in every city, it’s everywhere,” he said. Our interest in the discussion was in narcotics detective Gregg Mehling of the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office, who gave […]

Several indictments regarding drug trafficking and firearms crimes in Lorain County were recently unsealed in federal court as part of an ongoing coordinated enforcement initiative, law enforcement officials said. The indictments were announced Nov. 12 by U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach, Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will, Elyria police Chief Duane Whitely, Lorain police Chief Cel […]