Two-and-a-half months removed from the police’s biggest one-day search of the year, the operation has nearly come to an end for law enforcement officials. But the legal impact of the multiple felony cases is just beginning. “Operation Revolving Door” kicked off Aug. 27, targeting 46 low- to mid-level drug traffickers within Marion County. By that […]

Firefighters who fought a house fire at 531 Aetna St. early Friday found more than just heavy fire damage when the smoke cleared, discovering what appeared to be an indoor marijuana grow. Columbiana County Drug Task Force Director Lt. Brian McLaughlin, of the sheriff's office, said agents found 60 marijuana plants in various stages of […]

Area departments made of pair of drug-related arrests Thursday. Members of Trumbull County Adult Probation, investigators with the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force and Newton Falls Police Department went to 2539 McMullen Allen Road, to investigate information of a meth lab on the property.

Three people were in the Trumbull County Jail on Friday facing various drug charges stemming from a July raid in Lordstown. Indicted Thursday were Larry E. Moran, 40; Chad M. Richmond, 33; and Samantha L. Bumbico, 33. Lordstown police and the Trumbull Ashtabula Group task force raided an apartment on July 26 at 1005 Hallock […]

A husband and wife from Ironton have been arrested on drugs charges following a raid at their home early Friday morning. Officers from the Lawrence Drug & Major Crimes Task Force and the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at the home of Terry Lee Gannon, 40, and Cindy Gannon, 34, of Ironton. […]