Five Tiffin residents were arrested Monday after being indicted by a Seneca County grand jury on numerous felony drug-related charges. According to a release from the Seneca County Drug Task Force METRICH Enforcement Unit, several drug-related investigations involving prescription drugs, cocaine and marijuana led to the indictments and arrests of Chad Brooks, 32, Justin C. […]

City police Chief Dino Sgambellone spent more than five years fighting the heroin problem as commander of the METRICH Enforcement Unit. He knows there are no easy answers.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is making more drug-related arrests and seizures this year than last year as the state’s major highways — including Interstates 70 and 75 — remain big conduits of drug trafficking. During the first six months of 2013, the patrol started 2,685 felony cases, with 46 percent stemming from a felony drug […]

A Hancock County METRICH Drug Task Force search of a Findlay residence Tuesday netted large amounts of drugs. At 4:45 a.m., law enforcement officials searched 204 Durrell St. and found 19 grams of heroin, 11 grams of cocaine, 307 grams of marijuana, methamphetamine, prescription drugs, cash and drug paraphernalia, said Det. Sgt. Justin Hendren.

A Laketran bus driver appeared in Willoughby Municipal Court on Monday on a felony drug trafficking charge.  Karen L. Kuhn, 56, of 6405 Timeless Lane in Madison, was arrested on Thursday by Willoughby police and the Lake County Narcotics Agency, said special agent Alex Friel with the agency.