The Zanesville-Muskingum County Joint Drug Task Force has taken more than $300,000 worth of illicit drugs off the streets this week. Before this week's busts, the task force had intercepted about $180,000 in drugs this year, along with more than a dozen firearms. Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz considers this week's bust "a home run" […]
A Newark man potentially faces decades in prison after being charged with nine counts related to allegedly having nearly a pound of heroin and large amounts of crack cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana in his possession. Fritz J. Davis, 24, last known address 422 New Haven Ave., was indicted Thursday with one count each of aggravated […]
A woman was arrested Tuesday after law enforcement officers allegedly found a methamphetamine lab inside her home, where her 10-month-old son was living. The Perry County Sheriff's Office responded to a tip about a meth lab at a home at 305 W. Sheridan Dr. Lot 14 in Somerset. Detectives, along with the Central Ohio Drug Enforcement Task […]
Anthony D. Scott, 28, of Columbus was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 240 months in prison for distributing the heroin that led to the overdose death of a Columbus man in August 2013. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, James V. Allen, Acting Special Agent in Charge […]
Twelve people were indicted Monday in connection with a five-month investigation into a pill trafficking ring from Florida to Ohio. According to the Knox County Prosecutor's Office, a grand jury returned indictments that include more than 400 counts of aggravated trafficking in drugs, aggravated funding of drug activity, and engaging in a pattern of corrupt […]