A Fostoria man, who already was served a 13-count indictment earlier this month, was indicted on additional charges, including one that accuses him of causing another man's death. Tyree L. Carpenter, 34, was indicted by a Seneca County grand jury on additional charges of involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony; corrupting another with drugs, a second-degree felony; and aggravated […]

Christine Martin, a 31-year-old Mentor resident, was found unresponsive in her cell Dec. 22 at Lake County Jail after heroin was brought into the facility.  Officials administered a drug to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, and she survived. But Martin’s problems are far from over. On Aug. 18, she was sentenced in Lake […]

A female prisoner who distributed heroin to several other Lake County Jail inmates — one of whom died — was sentenced Aug. 18 to the maximum seven years behind bars. Christine Martin, 31, of Mentor, was the second of three defendants to be sentenced in the Dec. 22 death of fellow inmate Kristi Jean Ellis, […]

Criminally charged with drug offenses in connection with a Wayne County heroin overdose death, two Millersburg women recently denied charges of drug possession and trafficking. Kristin Johnson, 25, of 137 Deetz St., pleaded not guilty in Holmes County Common Pleas Court to trafficking in heroin, possession of heroin and possession of drug abuse instruments. Her […]

A Warren man has been charged in the death of a woman who overdosed on fentanyl. Roderick Means also known as “Tap Out,” 33, is incarcerated in Mahoning County Jail on an involuntary manslaughter charge. According to an indictment filed May 26 in the Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas, Means sold purported heroin to […]