Today, Elias Malone, age 22, entered a guilty plea before Judge Colleen O’Donnell to a charge of Murder with a 3 year firearm specification. He was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life for Murder plus 3 years consecutive for the use of a firearm. The total sentence was 18...

Today, a Franklin County Jury found Clifford Patterson, 42, guilty of two counts of murder with firearm specifications in the May 10, 2020 shooting death of Dion Lamarr, 37, on Fountain Lane in Whitehall. The men were neighbors. A dispute over noise erupted on Mother’s Day,...

The State of Ohio v. William Husel was carefully tried and prepared by both the Prosecution and the Defense. The Jury after review of all the evidence was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that William Husel was guilty of any charges submitted to them. We accept th...

The jury in the case of The State of Ohio v. Andrew Mitchell has reported to the Court that they are unable to reach a verdict as to either count in the indictment. The Court has declared a mistrial as to both Count One: Murder, and Count Two: Voluntary Manslaughter. The...

Marvell Dixon was convicted of Aggravated Murder and Felonious Assault with a firearm specification in 1998 for the killing of Douglas Harvey and shooting Ervin Nixon. He was sentenced to 20 years to life on the Aggravated Murder count. Dixon filed a motion for a new trial ...

Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack provided the following statement regarding the shooting death of Joseph Jewell where on duty Columbus Police Officers Howard Brenner, Glenn Thivener and Mark Dilello discharged their service firearms. On February 20, 2020, Columbus SWAT of...

The prior version of this press release indicated Mr. Eisel was sentenced last week. Mr. Eisel is scheduled to be sentenced 10 March 2022. The final defendant in a vicious, pre-planned murder pled guilty last week to murder and tampering with evidence for his role in the d...

In March 2021, the Central Ohio HIDTA Task Force, an Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC) task force, began a lengthy drug trafficking investigation within the central Ohio area. This was an investigation of an incredibly complex drug trafficking organization...

The Franklin County Board of Commissioners authorized the Prosecutor’s Office to accept a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance within Department of Justice in the amount of $551,727 for the establishment of a Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) within the office at the Gen...

Columbus resident Brandon L. Pack was sentenced to eight to nine and one half years today in a case stemming from the protests of summer 2020. Pack, 26, was convicted on one count each of aggravated riot, vandalism, and breaking and entering, as well as three counts of felonio...