MANSFIELD, Ohio– Authorities captured the man accused of making threats against President Donald Trump on Friday, sources told the FOX 8 I-Team. The U.S. Marshals have been searching for 26-year-old Shawn Christy, of McAdoo, Penn. in Northeast Ohio since Sunday. That’s when Christy crashed a stolen car on Interstate 71 in Mansfield then took off running. Shawn Christy’s father, […]

MANSFIELD, OH (WOIO) – A nationwide manhunt is underway for an inmate who escaped from the Mansfield Correctional Institution. The inmate, James Davis Myers, 47, was last seen before 9 p.m. Wednesday. No details of the escape are being released, but he was assigned to a work detail in the maintenance section of the prison. […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – PETA will now give a $5,000 reward to catch the person who tied three dogs to the CSX train tracks in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Only one dog survived. A railroad worker found the bodies of two of the dogs who had been fatally hit by a train. A third, very small dog survived. Caretakers […]

AKRON, OH (WOIO) - Police in Akron are looking for two men who broke into a jewelry store over the weekend. It happened at Taylor Made Jewelry on Wedgewood Drive around 11:40PM on Sunday. The suspects crashed their Jeep through the front doors to gain entry. Once inside, they grabbed a bunch of jewelry and fled.

ZANESVILLE, OH (WOIO) – Two animals remain on the loose in Muskingum County, including a monkey and a wolf. The monkey is a Rhemus Macaque from Asia, about 30 pounds, and considered very dangerous. Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz says the animals owner, Terry Thompson, released more than 40 exotic animals from their cages Tuesday evening, before committing […]

PARMA, OH (WOIO) – The Parma Police Department is currently seeking information on the whereabouts of Luis R. Santana. Santana is wanted by the Parma Police Department and multiple other agencies for theft. He committed these crimes at area Wal-Mart’s, in which he would steal a piece of luggage, then steal Similac baby formula and conceal […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – An attempted kidnapping on Cleveland’s west side early Wednesday morning. It happened at 7:30AM in the 3600 block of Denison Avenue. The 15-year-old victim was walking on Denison when an unknown man driving a dark navy blue van tried to force the victim into the van. “I was walking to school […]