A couple is behind bars after investigators say they found pills and cash the couple's Lawrence County, Ohio home. The Lawrence Drug and Major Crimes Task Force, along with the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office, executed a search warrant at a home along Township Road 184 in Pedro Tuesday. Cee B. Hall, 52, and Drucilla Hall, […]

State Attorney General Mike DeWine recited the number of fatal heroin overdoses in 2013 for several counties during a forum Friday. He said there were seven in Richland County, but Coroner Dr. Stewart Ryckman corrected him to say there were 16. “That’s a shocking number,” DeWine said.

The Lorain County Drug Task Force recently made the following arrests: Krystal Moffitt, age 30 of North Ridgeville, was charged with several counts of Theft of Drugs and Illegal Processing of a Drug Document. She is accused of stealing Oxycodone from an Avon nursing home where she worked as an R.N. Hannah Murphy, age 24 […]

WOOSTER -- An Orrville man was handed with a five-year jail sentence after violating conditions of his community control. Seth Patterson-Doty, 23, of 9128 McQuaid Road, was sentenced after he originally was charged and pleaded guilty to felony drug possession, two counts of aggravated trafficking, trafficking in drugs and trafficking in heroin (in two separate […]

A husband and wife from Ironton have been arrested on drugs charges following a raid at their home early Friday morning. Officers from the Lawrence Drug & Major Crimes Task Force and the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at the home of Terry Lee Gannon, 40, and Cindy Gannon, 34, of Ironton. […]