Columbus is a city seeing unprecedented homicide rates and continuous deaths through gun violence. We must find a path forward that leads to justice, reconciliation, individual accountability, enhanced public safety, transparency, and peace. Most importantly, we must do this t...

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Gregory Huish was sentenced today in an August 2019 murder. Judge Sheryl K. Munson sentenced Huish, 59, to the mandatory 15 years to life on the count of murder, and ran three years concurrent on the count of tampering with evidence. The victim was a roommate and tenant of Hui...

Heather Tapia of Columbus was sentenced Wednesday, April 14 by Judge Sheryl K. Munson in the July 2018 crash that killed Audrey Gartin of Phoenix, who was 39 at the time of her death. After the crash, Tapia fled to Florida and began using an alias. She was subsequently apprehe...

The Franklin County Prosecutor’s office would like to provide a brief update in the Casey Goodson, Jr. matter after the release of the autopsy report by the Franklin County Coroner on Wednesday, March 17th. Investigations take a substantial amount of time to complete, and we u...

The Franklin County Prosecutor's Juvenile Division has been actively collaborating with the judges of the Juvenile Court, the Columbus Division of Police, and other law enforcement agencies with regard to the recent trends in juvenile crime. Reducing recidivism rates is at the...

Martin Eldridge of Williamsport was sentenced yesterday by Judge Sargus. The case was investigated by the Franklin County Sheriff’s detectives in the Environmental Crimes Unit, with the assistance of the Ohio EPA, United States EPA, and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Invest...

This morning a resolution was passed by the Commissioners supporting Franklin County Prosecutor Tyack’s appointment of Janica Pierce Tucker as Special Assistant Prosecutor to serve as Chief Counsel for the Franklin County Parks and Recreation Board, the Parks Board’s non-profi...

I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify a few items reported by the media. I want to acknowledge that law enforcement provides an important service to our community. I appreciate the work performed by law enforcement officers. My comments were directed toward those individ...

Prosecutor Ron O’Brien announces that the Franklin County Grand Jury has returned a 4 count indictment against John A. Clark, age 50. The counts include two counts of Election Falsification, both felonies of the fifth degree and two counts of Tampering with Government Records,...