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 14, 2018 | Hamilton County Heroin Task Force
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms called him the king of Winton Terrace. Federal court documents indicate the people who bought heroin from him likely knew him as “Half,” the handle he used on an Instagram account whose profile image prominently featured his...
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 27, 2018 | METRICH Enforcement Unit
Two people are facing charges after a search warrant was executed a residence in Sycamore this past Sunday. According to a release from the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office, the Major Crimes Unit served the warrant at 309 and a half East Seventh Street in the village....
