Ottawa County first responders have a new weapon in the war on drugs and combating drug-related deaths from opiates, and it comes in a tiny class vile. Every Ottawa County Sheriff’s deputy will carry two doses of Narcan, the brand name for nasal naloxone, a new nasal spray used to prevent and reverse a drug […]

A Rocky Ridge man was sentenced Wednesday to 2½ years in prison for growing marijuana at his home. Jake Ruttschaw, 37, pleaded guilty May 1 in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court to one felony count of possession of drugs and one misdemeanor count of child endangering. He also was sentenced by Judge Bruce Winters to […]

A Benton Township man and woman were charged Friday with growing more than 100 marijuana plants last month in their home. A grand jury indicted Anthony Lanting, 28, and Brittney Austin, 24, on three counts of possession of criminal tools, two counts of cultivation of marijuana and one count of possession of marijuana, all felonies. […]

Two men were recently charged with selling drugs at local businesses, and a woman was charged with using deception to get prescription drugs. An Ottawa County grand jury recently indicted Lee Mays, 42, of Sandusky, on two felony counts of trafficking in cocaine and one felony count of trafficking in heroin. Mays, who was arrested […]

Just after dark, an undoubtedly nervous man sits in a parking lot at a local business, waiting. A few minutes later, a car pulls up next to his and parks. The man and woman inside hop out, and a woman pulls a tiny bag of heroin from her pants and hands it to the man. […]