Jan 9, 2019 | Butler County Sheriff's Regional Narcotics Task Force
Three people were arrested Tuesday night after Butler County Sheriff’s deputies conducted a traffic stop at Park Avenue and F Street in Hamilton. The driver, Veronica Louis Sacco, 27, was arrested on outstanding warrants out of Montgomery County, according to a...
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...
Dec 14, 2018 | METRICH Enforcement Unit
Drugs, guns and cash were seized Thursday morning during a METRICH raid at 75 Helen Ave., according to a news release from Mansfield police Lt. Joseph D. Petrycki, who is also the METRICH commander. The METRICH Enforcement Unit, with assistance from the Mansfield...
Dec 11, 2018 | Ottawa County Regional Task Force
A man accused of helping a drug smuggler sell fentanyl to inmates in the Ottawa County jail was sentenced to prison. Timothy Johnson, 49, of Toledo, pleaded guilty to illegal conveyance of drugs into a detention facility and aggravated fentanyl trafficking in October....
Nov 15, 2018 | Hamilton County Heroin Task Force
A Winton Terrace man is accused of selling the fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed two friends in Norwood. Antwan Reliford, 28, was arrested Nov. 7 on a bus in Louisville after officials said he fled Ohio. In August, three men and a woman bought half a gram of what...
