Willoughby Hills police arrested three men from Detroit who had more than 450 oxycodone pills.
The pills were discovered during a traffic stop at 2 a.m. Aug. 6.
According to police, further investigation after the stop and alert from an officer’s K-9s led to the bags being found in the car.
The men are being arraigned Aug. 7 in Willoughby Municipal Court.
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“Our nation is in crisis,” President Trump’s Opioid Commission wrote in its recently released interim report. The commission urged the president to declare a national state of emergency. “With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to September 11th every three weeks,” the commission wrote in its report.
Lake County has seen the growing devastation of the crisis. In 2016, 86 people died of drug overdoses, shattering the previous record of 46 set just two years prior. [Read more…]
A man who faces decades in prison for drug crimes pleaded not guilty to 10 felonies related to trafficking cocaine, oxycodone and hydrocodone.
Terry A. Harris, 51, of Zanesville, appeared for arraignment Wednesday in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court. He was charged with trafficking in cocaine, possession of cocaine, three counts of trafficking in oxycodone, three counts of possession of oxycodone, trafficking in hydrocodone, possession of hydrocodone and possession of alprazolam. The final count is a misdemeanor.
His bond was continued at $500,000.
In May, law enforcement recovered approximately $150,000 worth of cocaine and $4,000 worth of prescription pills from Harris’s residence on Columbia Street. Officers identified Harris as a suspect with assistance from the Ohio Board of Pharmacy, which was conducting its own drug investigation, Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz previously said.
Detectives with the Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office and Zanesville Police Department joint drug unit also found several digital scales, several baggies with residue and approximately $12,000 in cash in addition to the drugs.
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An undercover investigation yielded multiple drug trafficking-related indictments for Ottawa County residents.
Three people were arrested as part of the investigation on Friday, according to a news release.
“We have an addiction issue in the county and throughout the state,” Ottawa County prosecutor James VanEerten said. “One issue is the prevalence and availability of drugs. We’re trying to hold those dealing the drugs as accountable as we can. We also want to charge people when they cause an overdose.” [Read more…]
Two people were arrested on drug charges Thursday in Chesapeake, following a traffic stop by Chesapeake Police Chief Randy Lewis.
Lewis stopped a vehicle, operated by Richard S. Thompson, 35, of 103 Township Road 1118, Chesapeake, while investigating a drug trafficking complaint.
The passenger in the vehicle was Billy C. Edwards, 34, of RT1 Box 467, Milton, West Virginia. [Read more…]
