LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) - A Findlay man charged with shooting at a Bluffton police officer in 2021 is still working to get his case dismissed.
The trial is underway for a 20-year-old man facing charges related to a shooting last summer at Bill’s Drive-Thru. Jeremiah Washington, 20, is currently charged with felonious assault and aggravated robbery. Both charges carry firearm specifications. In July 2024, Allen County deputies responded to Bill’s Drive-Thru after receiving reports of a shooting.
A Montgomery County woman banned previously from working as a Medicaid provider pleaded guilty today for yet again defrauding the program – this time stealing $1.5 million, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced.
The trial of Jonathan Wheeler, a 31-year-old man indicted on rape and aggravated robbery charges in Allen County, began Monday afternoon.
A man accused of a March rape and murder, pleads not guilty during his arraignment.
Greer addresses the court saying, “I just want to say, just because I was found guilty by a jury doesn't make me guilty. That's why I didn't plead guilty. That's why I'm standing here today at sentencing."
A man involved in a fight outside of J's Pub earlier this year was sentenced Monday at the Allen County Common Pleas Court. Tysheen Polk received a guilty verdict for 1 count of felonious assault to the second degree after beating Bradin Fischer-Jones in the parking lot of J's. Judge Terri Kohlrieser sentenced Polk to a 5 to 7.5 year prison term.
Tom Stinebaugh is facing multiple counts including having unlawful interest in a public contract, conflict of interest, and theft in office. The prosecution says the charges are being focused around a handful of incidents, including appointing his brother as acting fire chief days after taking the office of mayor. He also allegedly made the city pay for the construction of a sewer line to a home that his company built.
The officers who responded to a tip of a possible murder on June 13th of 2020 took the stand. They explained what they found in Boothe's apartment and the fact that he tried to escape through a window at his apartment when they arrived. Plus they talked about the evidence that was discovered in a small wooded area in Martin Luther King Junior Park that led them to where Butler's body was buried.
37-year-old Bryant Rose has been charged with felonious assault, abduction, and having a weapon under disability. The Lima Police Department says that back on January 29th of 2021, officers were called out to the 600 block of Fourth Street, where a man barricaded himself inside a house with a hostage.