Press Release from the Office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost: (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Law enforcement task forces organized under the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC) confiscated more than $92 million in illegal drugs in 2024, along with 560 firearms and $4.7 million in currency, Ohio Attorney General Yost announced today. “The number of illegal drugs and weapons taken off our streets this year is impressive thanks to our drug task forces, but the true measure of their success is the countless lives spared from overdoses and addiction,” Yost said. “I’m grateful to every sheriff and police chief, along with our federal partners, who fuel our efforts to thwart drug trafficking.” Under AG Yost’s leadership, OOCIC task forces have seized more than 288,000 prescription pills, 1,154 pounds of fentanyl, 1,994 pounds of cocaine and 2,334 firearms since 2019.

Lima Police detectives say a possible argument in a bar led to a shooting later in a driveway on Weadock Ave.   

August 8, 2024, Press Release from the Office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost: (HUDSON, Ohio) — In another victory for cross-agency collaboration on Ohio’s cold cases, BCI investigators and forensic scientists have linked the brutal attacks in 1987 of two northeastern Ohio females – one fatal – to the same suspect. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Hudson Police Chief Perry Tabak and Cuyahoga Falls Police Chief Christopher Norfolk today announced that Thomas Collier Jordan, who died in 2009 in Arizona, was responsible for the rape and homicide of a 30-year-old woman in Hudson Township and the rape of a 17-year-old girl in Cuyahoga Falls. Jordan was identified through extensive detective work and forensic analysis conducted by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Cold Case Unit at the request of the Hudson Police Department. 

July 3, 2024, Press Release from the FBI Cleveland Division: [Cleveland, OH] FBI Cleveland continues to seek the public’s assistance for information surrounding the disappearance of then-17-year-old Ashely Summers. Ashley Summers was last seen on or about July 8, 2007. Law enforcement believe there may be several areas of interest where Ashley was known to frequent, specifically: the 2100 block of West 96th, the 3800 block of West 23rd, the 1100 block of Holmden Avenue, and the 3400 block of West 44th, all in Cleveland. At the time of her disappearance, Ashley was 5’5, 130lbs with long brown hair and blue eyes. She had a red heart outline tattoo on her upper right arm with the name “Gene” in a black ink ribbon across the middle.

The Hardin County Sheriff's Office is continuing the search for a McGuffey man who has been missing since late March. A sheriff's office update yesterday says despite entering the 3rd month of 66-year-old Michael Bolen's disappearance, the investigative division is continuing to seek Bolen's whereabouts. Officials say the office is following every potential lead, conducting interviews and multiple searches. Hardin County has involved the services and resources of Ohio BCI&I, the Logan County Sheriff's Office, the Hardin County Prosecutor's Office, and the FBI.

We have more information about a story we told you about last night. A Tennessee man was arrested after a 3-hour standoff with law enforcement Tuesday night. 32-year-old Demarcus Williams is in the Allen County Jail facing a domestic violence charge and warrants for multiple charges out of Tennessee. Around 5 p.m. Tuesday night, detectives say a female victim went to the Lima Police Department to report that her live-in boyfriend, Williams, allegedly assaulted her in their apartment. Police went there to talk to him, and he barricaded himself inside. Police learned that he is facing burglary, robbery, assault, and drug charges around Memphis.

An investigation is underway after a man was discovered dead inside his vehicle at a Lima gas station Tuesday evening.

LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Lima chapter of the NAACP held a press conference on Saturday, February 11th to announce that they are investigating the…

24-year-old Daquan Burse is on trial in three separate cases. One involves possession of a fentanyl-related substance that police found on him when he was found unresponsive on someone else's porch. Another was for trafficking heroin, that police made buys from him after he posted on social media that he was selling.