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Wooster man gets prison for drug charge

WOOSTER -- A 19-year-old Wooster man was given prison time after failing the conditions of his intervention on drug trafficking charges. Julian D. Campbell, of 1131 E. Bowman St., Apt. B, was given a 12-month prison sentence in Wayne County Common Pleas Court for each of two counts of trafficking in marijuana, both fifth-degree felonies. […]

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Two men get prison time for selling drugs in Rittman

WOOSTER -- Two men who were caught selling drugs in Rittman were sentenced in Wayne County Common Pleas Court to prison. Arthur L. Burnette, 46, 105 Gale Road, Barberton, was sentenced to two years in prison on two separate cases. Daniel R. Walker, 30, 164 S. Main St., Rittman, was given two years in prison […]

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Wooster man who made meth in park gets prison

WOOSTER -- A Wooster man who admitted to hiding chemicals used to make meth in his vehicle, and then making meth at a park, was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison. Marion Eugene Cecil, 48, with various Wooster and Orrville addresses, was handed two 36-month sentences in the two cases against him by Wayne […]

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Wayne County no stranger to heroin, opiate abuse

Word that Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an apparent heroin overdose shocked many people. Television stations, radio outlets, Internet publications, blog sites, social networks and personal interactions discussed the news and dissected the facts. "I felt incredibly sad," said Bobbi Douglas, executive director of Liberty Center Connections, a nonprofit agency that provides treatment […]

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Hung jury in Apple Creek man's meth lab case

WOOSTER -- A jury failed to reach a verdict in a two-day trial of an Apple Creek man who was charged with operating a meth lab out of his room at the Orrville Inn. The case in Wayne County Commons Pleas Court against David Yoakem Sr., 40, 122 Villard St., will instead be retried on […]

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