A controlled delivery was conducted by police Thursday after federal authorities intercepted a package last week that contained more than 100 grams of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy. The controlled delivery of 111 grams of MDMA to 231 West Fifth St. was conducted Thursday by agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of […]

Three men, including two from Florida and one from Pepper Pike, face federal drug charges after agents seized more than 23,000 THC cartridges used in vaping devices during an investigation last month, authorities say. A grand jury on Wednesday indicted Frank Altieri, 25, of Brooklyn, Florida; David Bruell, 28, of Pepper Pike; and James Campbell, […]

Mount Vernon Police Department Detectives and Agents from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation executed a search warrant Thursday at Waking Dreams Smoke Shop on the Public Square. The Knox County Prosecutor's Office announced the warrant on their Facebook page. According to the post, "The warrants were the result of an investigation into the sale […]

A local man who admitted to employing a 17-year-old to deliver cocaine before his southside home was raided in July has been sentenced to four years in prison. Judge Kelly Cottrill imposed the prison term Monday after Zanesville resident Jimmy J. Davidson pleaded guilty last month to three charges in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court. The […]

Three people involved in what investigators called one of the main supply rings of Alpha-PVP in Lawrence County were sentenced Wednesday in common pleas court. James Bowles, 31, of 4023 County Road 30, Kitts Hill, was sentenced to six years in prison. He previously pleaded guilty to counts of second- and fifth-degree aggravated trafficking in […]