A Ross County man arrested in a pair of drug raids this month was found dead from an apparent suicide Tuesday in his cell at the Pickaway County Jail.

Police recovered all the makings of a suspected meth lab in the basement of a Prospect Street residence Tuesday night after the homeowner reported finding some suspicious items. Sgt. Brent Slider confirmed the items appeared confined to the basement, consisting of all the various materials needed to manufacture the drug methamphetamine, commonly known as meth.

SWAT teams raided several homes and a business in a two-county drug investigation Monday. Police and tactical teams raided eight locations after a six-month investigation. It began in Mount Washington on Monday morning. The first home searched was in the 6000 block of Beechmont Avenue, near McNicholas High School and Guardian Angels School. Officers said […]

Pike County Sheriff Richard Henderson reports that his office, along with the Ross County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. 23 Task Force, executed a search warrant on a residence at 791 Alma-Omega Road in Pike County at about 4pm Friday.

A potentially explosive situation is diffused and four people are in custody after police bust a meth lab. Thursday, the Drug Abuse Reduction Task Force (DART) served a search warrant at a home on Williams Street in Lockland.  They recovered 12 active one-pot meth cookers and several inactive one-pot cookers. According to investigators the labs […]