The ongoing battle against opiates continued here Wednesday night. The Bucyrus Police Department, assisted by the METRICH task force, Crawford County Sheriff’s Office, Galion Police and Ohio Highway Patrol, served a search warrant at 1375 Whetstone St. Three men are in custody awaiting charges, and suspected heroin and narcotics were seized.

A 22-year-old man arrested Tuesday in a raid that netted drugs, guns and cash is due in court Thursday on several charges. Jimmy Smith is to be in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court on felony charges of drug possession (cocaine and heroin) and illegal conveyance of a weapon and a misdemeanor charge of carrying a […]

Members of the Logan County Joint Drug Task Force arrested two Quincy residents Monday afternoon after serving arrest warrants and a search warrant at 221 Jefferson St. in the village. Gary L. Smith, 51, and Pamela Wood, 57, both of that address, each was lodged in the Logan County Jail. He was issued a warrant […]

The Ottawa County Drug Task Force handled fewer indictments or bills of information in 2013 than it did the previous year — but, once again, a good deal of the work was done in Port Clinton. “The 67 Drug Task Force indictments charged a total of 167 felony offenses, 73 of which occurred within the […]

Word that Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an apparent heroin overdose shocked many people. Television stations, radio outlets, Internet publications, blog sites, social networks and personal interactions discussed the news and dissected the facts. "I felt incredibly sad," said Bobbi Douglas, executive director of Liberty Center Connections, a nonprofit agency that provides treatment […]