A former South Point police officer admitted to using his status to obtain drugs Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court. Aaron Fradd, 28, of 426 Fourth St. West Apt. 61, South Point, was arraigned on a bill of information and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of compounding a crime. According to Lawrence County […]

Manufacturing drugs and then selling them to an undercover informant resulted in prison time for an Ironton man. Jon Thacker, 32, of 404 Township Road 301, was sentenced to six years in prison for fourth-degree trafficking in drugs and second-degree illegal manufacturing of drugs Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court. Thacker had previously pleaded […]

In the first case of its kind in Lawrence County, a man was found guilty Monday of selling synthetic drugs. Robert Holley, 45, of 316 Clary Hollow Road, Ashland, Ky., pleaded guilty to two charges of third-degree aggravated trafficking in drugs and a count of fifth-degree trafficking in a controlled substance analogue of spice. The […]