A Columbus woman convicted of killing her boyfriend’s 4-year-old son in 2021 will spend at least the next 25 years behind bars.   Michelle Hilyard, 52, was sentenced today to 25 years to life in prison for the May 2021 death of 4-year-old Bryson Brown. On Sept. 12, a Fran...

A Mansfield man has been found guilty in the 2022 execution-style shooting of a 14-year-old runaway in a Columbus alley.   On Sept. 17, a Franklin County jury found Jaheym Cheeks, 23, guilty of all five felony charges, including Aggravated Murder and Kidnapping.  The jury ...

A Columbus man has been found guilty in a 2023 shooting that left a man dead and a woman injured on the city’s west side.   Ron Robinson, 45, was convicted today of two counts of murder with a firearm specification and one count each of aggravated murder with a firearm spe...

A Columbus man who shot two people during a dispute, killing one, will spend at least the next 21 years in prison.   Mehki Miller, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of murder with a three-year gun specification; felonious assault with a three-year gun specification; tamperin...

A Columbus man accused of raping multiple women from the Linden area will spend at least the next 17 years in prison.   Michael T. Davis, 58, pleaded guilty on Aug. 29 to five counts of rape in connection with sexual assaults that took place between 2013 and 2024. His plea...

A Prairie Township motel that has been the site of repeated drug and violent activity was shut down today by the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office’s newly formed Nuisance Abatement Unit . The New Rome Motel, 5246 W. Broad St., closed at noon following a preliminary i...

A Columbus man who admitted to shooting and killing a Georgia man during a fight outside a Waffle House will spend the next two decades in prison. Jaquan Curry, 21, pleaded guilty today to felony counts of involuntary manslaughter with a three-year firearm specification, ame...

Today, a Franklin County Grand Jury indicted Daveonte Dixon on several charges related to the May 28th shooting of two Mifflin Township police officers and shooting toward four Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputies.  Dixon is charged with: 2 counts of Attempted Murder 6 count...

Yesterday, the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office Nuisance Abatement Unit and the Columbus City Attorney’s Office Property Action Team shut down a known drug house on the south side of Columbus.   On August 5, the Nuisance Abatement Unit and the Property Action Team filed...

A Franklin County grand jury has indicted a Lewis Center man in an early morning crash in Dublin that killed a 24-year-old. Kirk D. Barton, 40, was indicted late yesterday on counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and two counts of operating a motor vehicle while impaired. ...