AKRON, Ohio – The same 14-year-old girl whose arm was reportedly broken by an Akron police officer is now accused of assaulting a teacher at Litchfield Middle School. The incident happened around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police said the 14-year-old girl was screaming at a 12-year-old student while chasing him down the hallways. Authorities said she […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – The Fourth District Cleveland Police Officer charged with rape went before a judge on Friday morning. Patrol Officer Gregory Jones, 47, surrendered to Internal Affairs Investigators after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He’s accused of raping a woman he met and brought to his home on July 13. He was off-duty […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Twelve defendants have been indicted in a major drug trafficking conspiracy in which large shipments of cocaine were flown by private chartered airplanes from Texas to Cleveland, federal law enforcement officials announced today. At least 24 kilograms of cocaine and $157,500 in cash were seized as part of the investigation. The […]
AKRON, OH (WOIO) – Sentencing for Jimmy Dimora is now underway inside an Akron Federal Courtroom. Dimora is wearing an orange jumpsuit in Judge Sara Lioi’s courtroom. He was brought into the courthouse in a wheelchair, but entered the courtroom using a walker. Dimora agreed to final forfeiture order, and it has been signed by Judge […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A horrifying crash at a Cleveland street festival. The driver plowed through a barricade and into a crowd of people. Mitchell Andelmo was killed, and four others were injured. Police quickly arrested the driver, a man police say was drunk behind the wheel. The accident happened at West 117th and Clifton […]
Five women who were reportedly forced to live a life of prostitution by a Father and son pimp team are now pleading for their freedom, according to the New York Daily News. The women, who are protesting outside a Manhattan courthouse, were donned in matching tees with scribbled words of support like, “We are not […]
GEAUGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Chardon shooting suspect TJ Lane pled not guilty in court Friday afternoon. This was his first appearance in adult court. The teen is facing charges for fatally shooting three of his classmates and wounding three others inside Chardon High School. Lane admitted to the shooting, and said he shot the […]
GEAUGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – The teen accused of fatally shooting three of his classmates and wounding three others has officially been indicted. T.J. Lane now faces adult charges of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and felonious assault for the deadly shooting inside Chardon High School this past February. 17-year-old Russell King, Jr., 16-year-old Daniel […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – An arrest has been made in the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl in Cleveland. A man was arrested on Silk Avenue in the First District Friday at 3 p.m. No word on the man’s identity at this time. Wednesday at 7:40 a.m. on West 154th Street, the suspect followed the victim […]
The 5 men suspected of attempting to blow up a bridge near Cleveland pled not guilty in Federal Court this afternoon. The detention hearing for the suspects was continued until further order of the court. Joshua Stafford acted up at the end of the hearing. The judge warned him that it was not in his best interest to […]
A three-count indictment was filed Thursday against five people accused of taking part in a plot to detonate a bridge near Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for the […]
GEAUGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – The teen accused of fatally shooting three students and wounding two others at Chardon High School is competent to stand trial. TJ Lane’s competency hearing was held Wednesday in Geauga County Juvenile Court. In court, it was shared that Lane does suffer from some sort of psychosis, does not have […]