Officials said a helicopter from air station Detroit noticed a group of people on the floe near Ohio's Catawba Island at about 1 p.m. Sunday with several all-terrain vehicles seeking a route back to land. The helicopter lifted seven people from the floe. An airboat dispatched from the nearby Marblehead Station rescued four others. Officials said the other seven people were picked up and taken to shore by a good Samaritan who also had an airboat at the scene.

On Thursday 3-25-2021 the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office received a request for assistance in the apprehension of a wanted subject from the Bluffton Police Department. It was learned Eugene Jerome Lemons was wanted by the Detroit Police Department in connection to a homicide and investigation had revealed he was currently in the Bluffton, Ohio area. Further investigation determined the Lemons to be at the Fairway Inn, 855 SR 103, and the subject was taken into custody without incident by detectives from the sheriff’s office and members of the Bluffton Police Department.

Auglaize County deputies arrest a Detroit man with a large amount of prescription pills.