Officers think drug traffickers from Chicago only operated a few days before they were busted. The METRICH-MARMET Drug Task Force, assisted by the Marion City Special Response Team, the Marion Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, discovered heroin and crack cocaine Wednesday afternoon.

Drug task force detectives are on a hot streak amid the cold of winter. A second bust by the METRICH-MARMET Drug Task Force yielded nearly 2 ounces of crack cocaine, 2.3 grams of heroin and a pair of drug trafficking arrests in Marion.

Five residents from Richland and Crawford counties were arrested Friday during a METRICH Enforcement Unit raid. The five were arrested at 475 Portland Way North, Apt. 3, on drug charges and outstanding warrants, according to a news release from the Galion Police Department.

Suspected drugs, criminal tools and evidence of drug trafficking were found during execution of a search warrant early Thursday morning on South Wood Street. According to a release from the Seneca County Drug Task Force METRICH Enforcement Unit, law enforcement executed the search warrant at 850 S. Wood St., the residence of April Walker, 38, […]

Thomas Fenske, 35, of Cincinnati pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to wire fraud for operating a scheme promising to help people obtain free prescription drugs through his company, Queen City Script Care. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio and Kevin R. Cornelius, Special Agent in Charge, Federal […]