Charges are pending following execution of a search warrant Tuesday afternoon at a city home where drugs and cash were confiscated by drug task force officers. With guns drawn, agents from the Columbiana County Drug Task Force, the county Special Response Team and officers from the city police force converged on the hilltop home at […]
The Columbiana County grand jury recently issued 88 drug-related indictments. On Wednesday, members of the Columbiana County Drug Task Force, the Columbiana County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshals Office and the police departments in Salem, Lisbon and East Liverpool conducted a sweep to serve many of those indictments. According to Lt. Brian McLaughlin, director of […]
A Tuesday afternoon police raid at a North Market Street apartment resulted in the seizure of an estimated $2,000 worth of drugs and the arrest of one suspect. Richard Lowe, 32, of Cleveland, was charged with tampering with evidence after he reportedly tried to flush some drugs down the toilet, according to Columbiana County Drug […]
Two people were arrested on unrelated charges following a Thursday morning raid on a suspected meth lab at 40172 state Route 154. Taken into custody on outstanding arrest warrants out of Columbiana County were Ronald Lacey, 39, and Courtney Wilson, 24, both of whom were found at home when the residence was raided about 8:30 […]
One woman was charged and more than $2,000 in were confiscated when a Wellsville home was raided on Thursday. Detective Lt. Brian McLaughlin, director of the county Drug Task Force, said agents have been looking at the home at 408 Eighth St. and those living or staying there for the last couple months. With a […]