By Jane Beathard Staff Writer Local deputies assisted in the capture of an escapee from the Fairfield County jail last week, according to Madison County Sheriff Jim Sabin. Deputies Michael Talbert, Chris Stone and Jack Dill were dispatched to the Sunoco, state Route 38 and Interstate 71, at 6:38 p.m. to back up Fayette [...]
LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) — Police say an inmate who apparently escaped from a jail facility in southeast Ohio put socks on his hands to protect himself as he climbed a barbed wire fence. Fairfield County Sheriff’s Lt. Tim Voris said Tuesday that prisoner Jeremiah Searles was discovered missing shortly before midnight after a headcount at [...]
There’s more bad news for members of a central Ohio church where authorities believe a man drove a stolen car into the building, set a fire and watched from a nearby playground swing as the facility burned last month.
COLUMBUS (AP) — Authorities in Ohio and elsewhere are bewildered about how to stop people from driving under suspended licenses or even lifetime driving bans. Driver program director Kevin Lewis with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators says there’s nothing that can be done, short of taking the offenders’ cars away or putting them [...]
A former Madison Correctional Institution (McCI) inmate accused of a March 4 assault that left guard Jeremy Yantes seriously injured pleaded guilty to the crime on Friday in Madison County Common Pleas Court.
By Fran Odyniec Editor Come next Monday morning the Madison County Courthouse will no longer have a swamp. For the bigger part of the last 39 years, “the swamp” has been an early morning gathering spot in county treasurer Shag Stidham’s office. County commissioners, judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, office holders, clerks as well as friends [...]
A London woman caught in an undercover drug investigation conducted by London police last spring was sentenced to 180 days in Tri-County Regional Jail on Tuesday.
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Officials at a northeast Ohio jail say no one showed up for a public tour intended to demonstrate why voters need to approve a sales tax that will be on the Nov. 8 ballot. Chief sheriff’s Deputy Michael McDonald oversees the Stark County jail and says he was “pretty disgusted” by [...]
