A suspected Perry County drug trafficker has been indicted on several counts related to trafficking heroin and oxycodone, among other charges. Jamie L. Myer, of New Lexington, faces charges of complicity to trafficking in heroin, a first-degree felony with the specification that the defendant is a major drug offender; corrupting another with drugs, aggravated trafficking in oxycodone and deception […]

A 30-year-old Dresden man faces two years in prison after admitting to selling just more than 8 grams of methamphetamine to a confidential informant in January. The state and defense agreed to the recommended sentence after Larry W. Colebank Jr. waived his right to have the case presented to a grand jury. Instead, he opted to plead guilty […]

Unable to work with 15 grandchildren to feed and a meager disability income, Theresa McPeek didn't know what else to do, so she sold drugs, her attorney said in court on Tuesday. The 47-year-old woman stood beside Adam Grosshandler as the defense lawyer spoke on her behalf, explaining the reasoning that led her to traffic […]

It wasn't until he was 35 years old that Jeremy E. Wilson turned to heroin, he said in court Tuesday. His company "went sour," he said, and back surgery had left him in pain and on the painkiller Percocet. "It's been downhill ever since," he said Tuesday as he stood in front of Judge Mark Fleegle in […]

Authorities have jailed and charged a father and son who they said were supplying methamphetamine to Muskingum County and two neighboring counties. After a Monday raid at a Trinway home, police arrested 56-year-old Larry W. Colebank Sr., who is suspected of supplying methamphetamine across the region, said Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz. His son, 30-year-old Larry […]