IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- The co-owner of the Proctorville Flea Market is headed to prison. Jeffrey Jones, of Proctorville, was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. One year and $2,500 on each count. He was also ordered to forfeit merchandise and monies confiscated during the investigation.

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) -- A raid on a residence in South Point, Ohio, ends with five people under arrest on drug charges. Members of the Lawrence Drug and Major Crimes Task Force and Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office conducted the raid at 98 Township Road 1025 about 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that state, local, and federal officials served a search warrant on a suspected “pill mill” in Ironton. Members of the Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) and special prosecutions unit joined the Ironton Police Department, Lawrence County Drug Task Force, Lawrence County Prosecutor’s Office, Lawrence County Sheriff’s […]

IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Four South Point, Ohio-area residents are now in jail after being arrested and charged with drug trafficking. Lawrence County, Ohio Prosecutor Brigham Anderson says the four were arrested following an investigation by the Lawrence Drug and Major Crimes Task Force that ended with secret indictments by a recent grand jury.

The old saying is that if something “looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck.” The same can be said for drugs. Earlier this week Lawrence County saw its first case of someone being found guilty of selling a synthetic drug, a charge that likely wouldn’t have been […]