Columbus City Council unanimously approved a grant in the amount of $200,000.00 for the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office. This ordinance authorized the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into a grant agreement with the Franklin County Board of Commissioner...

The Ohio Attorney General has referred the officer involved shooting deaths of Ma’Khia Bryant and Andrew Teague to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office. The matters will be presented to a Grand Jury for review. The Ma’Khia Bryant matter is being assigned to Special Prosecut...

Two Columbus men were convicted following a 17-day jury trial on Monday, June 21st of Participating in a Criminal Gang along with several other felony crimes. Specifically, the jury convicted Shon D. Gardner, Jr., 21, and Jermaine Lamar Lathon, 28, of actively participating in...

The Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney has filed the necessary documents to appoint H. Tim Merkle and Gary S. Shroyer as Special Prosecutors to assist the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office with the investigation and prosecution of matters involving the shooting death of Ca...

Abraham Shears pleaded guilty to murder Monday morning in a September 2019 murder-for-hire case. Shears, 53, hired Donte Slash, 24, who then murdered John Clinedinst, a Columbus City Schools bus driver. The court sentenced Shears to the mandatory 15 years to life in prison. Th...

Mario Cunningham of Columbus was found guilty yesterday on four counts of robbery after a rash of bank robberies in 2018 with an added specification as a result of being a repeat violent offender. Cunningham, 45, robbed a Heartland Bank on November 2nd, 2018, threatening the e...

I would like to extend my gratitude to Commissioner Marilyn Brown and wish her well at the announcement of her impending retirement. Commissioner Brown was elected to her role with the Board of Commissioners in 2006, and has won re-election three times. She additionally served...

Devon Bias, 35, appeared in court on of two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder last week, in addition to three counts of felonious assault, and improperly discharging of a firearm into a habitation. The two counts of murder were for the deaths of two individ...

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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