A convicted sex offender from Ohio who has been charged twice with stalking was recently arrested in West Virginia for allegedly following a female student on Marshall University campus. According to WSAZ, police said this isn’t the first time they’ve encountered Michael Hankins, 40, after following women around campus. Surveillance cameras reportedly caught the 40-year-old stalking a …
Authorities in Ohio say three people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside of an office building in downtown Cincinnati, but the carnage could have been much worse. According to CBS News, 29-year-old Omar Enrique Santa Perez is allegedly caught on surveillance footage entering the Fifth Third Bancorp headquarters on Thursday morning and opening …
Authorities in Ohio say they arrested the man they believe killed his sister and her boyfriend earlier this month in Michigan. According to Fox News, the U.S. Marshals Service was in charge of the arrest at a library in Hamilton County, Ohio, this week. Robert Marzejka is now expected to face murder charges related to …
An Ohio man who was already incarcerated for killing two women was sentenced to death Tuesday after admitting to strangling two teen girls and burning their bodies. Hamilton Common Pleas Judge Patrick T. Dinkelacker sided with the jury’s recommendation when he condemned Anthony Kirkland to death for the murders of Casonya Crawford, 14, in 2006 and Esme Kenney, …
Ohio police said passersby rescued a 1-year-old girl from a hot car last week as her parents overdosed in a Canton parking lot. Speaking with “Inside Edition,” Eric Asher said he and his fiancée, Alexandria Whitt, were driving down the road when they saw a couple lying motionless outside a car and a baby sitting in the …
Police in Ohio are asking for the public’s help in locating a 15-year-old Coshocton teen who was reported missing Saturday evening. Per the Coshocton Tribune, Samuel J. Walters was last seen at a pond near County Road 495, just off U.S. 36. The Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office said a fisherman at the location that night could …
A couple in Green, Ohio, were arrested in June following a probe that police say reveals disturbing crimes involving the woman’s children, including the sexual assault of a 4-year-old boy caught on video surveillance. An investigation into Samantha Ward, 31, and her live-in boyfriend, Dean Davis, 28, began in April after a third party witnessed …
Two Ohio brothers are being hailed as heroes for spotting a 3-year-old drowning in a pool and—without the help of adults—jumping into action to save her. WTOL reported that Peyton and Bryant Switzer, 6, were on a family trip in Orlando, Florida, when the incident occurred. The Sentinel-Tribune reported that the girl’s mother was getting other …
An Ohio man is in jail awaiting a hearing next week related to charges that he fatally beat his fiancee’s infant child just days before the two wed last year. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force officers arrested 21-year-old Justin T. Layne on Thursday in connection with felony warrants …
An Ohio woman who solicited a hitman to kill her stepdaughters’ mother spend five years behind bars for the failed murder-for-hire plot. According to the Columbus Dispatch, Tara Arbogast, formerly known as Tara Lambert, ultimately pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. Arbogast, 35, was caught on camera in July 2015 offering a hitman a $125 downpayment …
Police in Bowling Green, Ohio, are asking for the public’s help in locating two women who were reportedly spotted with one of three men accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two teen girls. WTOL reported that surveillance cameras at a Walmart at Spring Meadows Shopping Center in Holland caught two unknown women with David Ramos Contreras at …
Ohio police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked and tried to rape a pregnant woman as she walked her dog Friday morning. WXIX reported that the victim, who wished to remain anonymous but agreed to share her photo of the tragic incident, was walking her dog in Cincinnati’s East End when she spotted Anthony Smith, …
