Prosecutor G. Gary Tyack Will Refer Matter to Special Prosecutors to Review Case The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) today turned over to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office a report of its independent investigation into an officer-involved shooting in Aug...

Franklin County jury found Kristopher Collins, 29, of Columbus, guilty yesterday of two counts of rape of a juvenile stemming from incidents in the summers of 2013 and 2015. He will be sentenced on Dec. 20, 2022. He faces a mandatory sentence of 10 years to life on each count....

Jhuante Burton, 37, of Columbus was sentenced today to a mandatory prison term of six to nine years following his plea to aggravated vehicular homicide for a fatal crash that occurred March 20, 2020. Shortly after 7 that night, Burton was driving his Chevrolet Captiva westb...

A Franklin County grand jury today voted not to indict Columbus police officer Andrew Hawkins in the 2021 shooting incident that left Kyle Veyon dead. As a result, thecriminal investigation into the incident has concluded. On Sep. 29, 2021, Columbus police officers Hawkins ...

Mark Reynolds pled guilty yesterday to five charges, including murder, related to crimes he committed on Oct. 23, 2020. Over the course of about two hours that morning, Reynolds shot at several people at different locations on the west side of Columbus. He entered a White C...

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Stephen McIntosh sentenced Shawn Mapp to a prison term of 50 years to life for the aggravated murder of Adrian Hardy and the attempted murder of Cheniqua Barton. A Franklin County jury found Mapp, 36, of Columbus, guilty on five t...

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kim Brown on Monday sentenced Santiago Martinez to the statutorily mandated life in prison with parole eligibility in 15 years for the murder of his wife, Alexandria Berrios. A Franklin County jury found Martinez guilty of the 202...

Robert Thomas, 73, of Columbus, on Friday was found guilty of aggravated menacing but not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a shooting last year that left a man dead. On June 20, 2021, Robert Thomas confronted his neighbor’s granddaughter and her husband, Jason Keys, on ...

A 20-year-old Columbus man who orchestrated a string of aggravated robberies with guns was sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 10, to 28 to 30.5 years in prison. Franklin County Court Judge Michael Holbrook sentenced Basho H. Arbo on six separate counts of aggravated robberies for ...

A Franklin County jury today found Santiago Martinez guilty of murder in the 2021 death of his wife, Alexandra Berrios. Martinez will be sentenced on Nov. 21. He is facing a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life in prison. Martinez testified that he and his wife were takin...