One defendant was sentenced to five years and another to three years and 10 months in federal prison in a New York City to Mahoning Valley heroin distribution conspiracy. The prison time was imposed last week by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. Louis A. Pagan, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute […]

The arrests of suspects wanted for their roles in a heroin trafficking ring started Wednesday morning. “Eighteen of them have been indicted federally. They are the major players, the people who are actually selling the heroin,” Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains said. During a press conference Wednesday afternoon, police and prosecutors said this investigation started two years ago, […]

A total of 17 people from around the Mahoning Valley are charged in a 25-count indictment.  They are accused of being part of a criminal enterprise that would steal to support their drug habit by exchanging stolen goods for drugs, or selling stolen items for cash to buy drugs. The area's allegedly hardest hit by […]

Nine women accused of prostitution are off the streets following a bust in Trumbull County. The sting operation happened on Wednesday. Liberty Township Police Chief Rich Tisone said the women advertised their services online. Officers with his department, along with several other agencies, acted as though they were customers and called the women to meet them at […]

An Austintown couple was indicted Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury on several high-level felony charges related to what police said was a meth lab found at their home last month. Sherry Smart, 32, and Thomas Smart, 39, were indicted on one count each of illegal manufacture of drugs, illegal assembly or possession of chemicals […]