A search warrant executed today at a home in the 8000 block of Township Road 55 in Morrow County should result in drug charges against the occupants, according to a press release from the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office. On February 7, 2014, the METRICH Enforcement Unit, along with Morrow County Sheriff’s detectives and the Cardington […]

A Hancock County METRICH Drug Task Force investigation has led to the indictments of several area defendants, the law enforcement unit reported Thursday. These people were charged through recently-unsealed secret indictments:

An alleged Mississippi drug dealer was arrested for a second time on heroin and cocaine trafficking charges. The Marion Police Department arrested Courtney D. Myles, 22, of Marion, in the 700 block of East Fairground Street. Myles, out on bond from a November arrest on similar charges, was charged with two counts of trafficking in […]

METRICH Commander Lt. Keith Porch can’t overestimate the importance of funding from the Office of Criminal Justice Services. “Without the funding, we wouldn’t exist,” he said. “Their support is what makes METRICH possible. It has allowed us to be in existence for 27 years.”

A Mansfield man was arrested Friday morning on multiple drug charges, including manufacturing and selling methamphetamine, officials said. Dale Smith, 24, of 156 W. Second St., was charged with one count of illegal manufacture of drugs, one count of illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for manufacture of drugs, one count of possession of controlled […]