A Fremont man initially facing a single felony count of tampering with evidence after being accused of moving the body of a deceased man suspected to have overdosed was indicted on additional drug-related charges. James R. Bell, 40, was first charged with tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. He is accused of tampering with the scene where 47-year-old Port […]

Over a period of three days, police departments in St. Clair Township and the city of East Liverpool reported five separate drug overdoses. According to reports from township police, officers were called at 11:41 a.m. Tuesday to the J.C. Penney parking lot where they found a 25-year-old Yeager Road man standing in the passenger door […]

Five people are accused of corruption and heroin offenses in direct connection with overdoses in Hamilton County, including a near-fatal overdose in the jail. The Hamilton County Heroin Coalition Task Force announced the indictments on Wednesday afternoon. The group investigates overdose cases, near-death or fatal – and tracks them back to people suspected of supplying the […]

A Sandusky man was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence in connection with an investigation into the death of a Port Clinton man on Saturday. James R. Bell, 40, of Sandusky, was arrested Monday on a warrant out of Ottawa County Municipal Court. Bell was charged with tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, and […]

Before he became an addict, Upper Sandusky resident Jarod Voorhees had it all. With five children, a good-paying job and a wife he loved dearly, Voorhees, 40, owned his own home and vehicles. Some would say Voorhees had it made with a seemingly perfect life. But underneath his perfect life, Voorhees, a man born and raised in Upper Sandusky, began […]