WOOSTER -- An Orrville man was handed with a five-year jail sentence after violating conditions of his community control. Seth Patterson-Doty, 23, of 9128 McQuaid Road, was sentenced after he originally was charged and pleaded guilty to felony drug possession, two counts of aggravated trafficking, trafficking in drugs and trafficking in heroin (in two separate […]

Two Wooster residents admitted in court to having chemicals to make meth hidden in their trunk. Dana Holliday, 26, of 311 E. South St., Apt. 203, Wooster, pleaded guilty in Wayne County Common Pleas Court to a count of illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of meth, a third-degree felony.

An unnamed drug operation Thursday night may not have garnered the greatest numbers, but it sent a message. "We've had good success in the city of Rittman," said Medway director Dave Smith. "We felt it was time a message needed to be sent that we're out there."

Drugs flowing into the city, especially from places like Chicago and Detroit, continued as recently as this past weekend. On Oct. 24, police and Medway Drug Enforcement Agency officers arrested a Chicago man following a brief car chase, and a day later police pulled over an Orrville man -- who was out on bond for […]

Informative, educational and eye-opening were just some of the adjectives City Council members used to describe an in-depth look given by the Wooster Police Department. Members of the department staged a "show and tell" of sorts for council members and city leaders Monday night at the service department building before the regular council meeting.