Oftentimes, the tragic results of drug abuse is widely publicized, while the efforts to stamp out the spread of its use go unnoticed. On the front line of the war against drugs, Medway Drug Enforcement Agency realizes education is, perhaps, the best weapon. "We've been going in and having open discussions with students about drugs, […]

While checking on the welfare of two small children Tuesday, police reported finding a meth lab in the basement of a Dickson Avenue home. METRICH was called to investigate the scene at 275 W. Dickson Ave., and officers found two one-pot shake-andbakes in plastic 20-ounce bottles, Detective Perry Wheeler said.

It’s everywhere. That was the consensus on heroin Tuesday afternoon during a town hall meeting in Independence hosted by radio station WTAM-1100’s Mike Trivisonno. “It’s in every suburb, it’s in every city, it’s everywhere,” he said. Our interest in the discussion was in narcotics detective Gregg Mehling of the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office, who gave […]

Multiple law enforcement agencies from both sides of the Ohio River took a huge bite out of a heroin trafficking ring spreading from the Ohio Valley to Chicago. Several state, county and municipal law enforcement officers joined U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld in Wheeling on Thursday to announce the arrests of seven people from Ohio and […]

Police raided a house on the east side of Austintown Tuesday morning, finding heroin, cash and a four-day-old baby, according to Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force Commander Jeff Solic. Mahoning County Children Services agents came to the house and placed the baby, who was born Friday, in the custody of a relative who was not at […]