Authorities searched an apartment on Cleveland Avenue on Wednesday after a suspected heroin overdose the night before. Members of the METRICH Enforcement Bureau, Ashland Police Division Detective Bureau and Ashland Special Response Team participated in the operation at 351 Cleveland Ave., Apt. 1.

A Fremont man was incarcerated after allegedly running from law enforcement officers attempting to arrest him on a drug charge Wednesday. Charles E. Starks Jr., 23, was charged with trafficking heroin, a fourth-degree felony, after a drug operation at Frost Parkway and West Perry Street, according to a release from Seneca County Drug Task Force-METRICH […]

A Trumbull County grand jury has indicted a Niles man in connection to the May 31 overdose death of the son of a police detective. Mark Thornsberry, 25, of 131 Wilson Ave., was named in a special grand jury report released today. He is accused of injecting Joshua J. Robbins, 25, with the heroin authorities […]

Officials credit a couple of recent METRICH Enforcement Unit sweeps for a downturn in fatal overdoses. Since the last News Journal update, which ran Aug. 21, there have been two fatal overdoses. The yearly total is 19. Of those, 10 — including the two most recent — were heroin-related. In a two-week span in June […]

Summit County Deputies have made two arrests in connection with the death of a 23-year old Green man found dead of a heroin overdose. The body of Tyler Bornstein was reported by a resident in a vacant lot off Alfred Road in Coventry Township. The Medical Examiner determined Bornstein did not die at the site […]