Investigators with the Lake County Narcotics Agency arrested five people they say are connected to a prescription drug ring. Sergeant Chris Begley says 44-year-old Matthew Winegord of Madison Township was arrested after investigators witnessed him fill his prescription of Oxycodone at the Walgreen's on Mentor Avenue in Mentor on Oct. 20, then sell 90 pills. […]

Mentor-On-The-Lake firefighters discovered more than a fire when they responded to a call a few days ago. The fire department responded to the Northshore Estates Apartment Complex on Plains Road for an explosion that started a fire inside one of the townhouses at the complex, according to police. Once inside police said firefighters found a […]

Police and sheriff’s departments have stepped up their enforcement against heroin crimes, but officials say it is too soon to know the effect of their increased efforts. Geauga County Coroner Dr. Robert Coleman said while there have been some potential heroin overdoses in the county in June and July, complete testing takes time, so final […]

Two people were arrested on July 31 in Lake County and face drug and weapons charges.  Through a joint investigation of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the Lake County Narcotics Agency, police obtained an arrest warrant for alleged drug trafficking for 24-year-old Kerry D. Johnson, Jr., of 77 Nebraska St. in Painesville. Authorities located […]

Although the heroin epidemic in the region has been grabbing a lot of headlines lately, methamphetamine is still a drug very much on the radar of area law enforcement. If you want to back up that claim with numbers and observations from the front line, just ask the Lake County Narcotics Agency. On July 18, […]