Dec 28, 2018 | Lake County Narcotics Agency
As recently as five years ago there wasn’t a single fentanyl case in the Lake County Crime Lab. Now it’s the most commonly seen opioid in the Painesville Township-based lab. “This trend is noted in other hard hit opioid areas in the country,” said Doug Rohde, the...
Nov 14, 2018 | METRICH Enforcement Unit
A Grand Jury has indicted five people for manufacturing methamphetamines at an Ashland residence. Ashland Police and the METRICH Task Force conducted an investigation at 506 West 10th Street on October 30th, with special teams responding to neutralize the potentially...
Sep 18, 2018 | Franklin County Drug Task Force
Franklin County deputies seized nearly 100 marijuana plants, along with 500 pounds of processed marijuana and dozens of cats from a Prairie Township home last week. According to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, on September 11, deputies were working a separate...
Aug 8, 2018 | Columbiana County Drug Task Force
For the second time in two weeks, there has been a drug raid in the same Salem neighborhood. On July 25 there was one at a house on E. Sixth Street. Wednesday, it was a meth lab three streets away on E. Third Street. Throughout the afternoon on Wednesday, deputies...
Apr 12, 2018 | Lake County Narcotics Agency
Four people were indicted in federal court April 12 for their alleged roles in a marijuana grow and distribution ring in which nearly 1,600 plants and numerous firearms were seized. Named in the six-count indictment are: James Nagy, 37, of Willoughby; Kenneth Sovaca,...
