Press Releases

Mar 12 2024

Defendant: Dallas Lowery

Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office secures multiple guilty verdicts in 2022 murder case
A jury on Monday found Dallas Lowery guilty of murder and other charges in the 2022 death of Heather Chapman. Daniel Meyer and Billie Gallagher prosecuted the case for the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. With their 2-month-old daughter in the room, Lowery shot...
Mar 11 2024

Defendant: Xavier Wilks

Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office Secures Guilty Verdict in 2021 Murder Case
Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced that after a four-day trial, Xavier Wilks, 31, of Columbus, was found guilty today of aggravated robbery, murder, and having weapons under disability. On Sept. 16, 2021, Travis Knisley, 23, of Frankfort, Ohio, was walk...
Mar 06 2024

Defendant: Isaiah Brown-Miller

Isaiah Brown-Miller Sentenced to 26 to 31 Years in Prison for His Role in the Murder of Imam Mohamed Hassan Adam in 2021
Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Karen Held Phipps yesterday sentenced Isaiah Brown-Miller to at least 26 years in prison for his role in the murder of Mohamed Hassan Adam, an imam at the Masjid Abu Hurairah mosque in Columbus and a leader in the local Muslim and So...
Mar 05 2024

Defendant: Phillip Wade

Phillip Wade Sentenced to 22 to 24 Years in Prison for a Series of Robberies in 2023
Phillip Wade, 34, of Gahanna was sentenced Feb. 29 to 22 to 24 years in prison by Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Karen Phipps for a series of robberies he committed in 2023. On Jan. 20, 2023, Wade entered a house, robbed the residents at gunpoint and locked the...
Mar 04 2024

Defendant: Pammy Maye

Woman charged with murdering 5-year-old boy arraigned in court and held on $4 million bond
Pammy Maye, 48, who has been charged with one count of aggravated murder, three counts of tampering with evidence and one count of abuse of a corpse in the death of Darnell Taylor, a 5-year-old boy in her care, pleaded not guilty today during her arraignment in the Franklin Co...
Mar 01 2024

Defendant: Mentae Humphrey

Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Recommends New Trial for Defendant Convicted of Murder in 2007
The Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has agreed to set aside the guilty verdict of Mentae Humphrey and recommend he receive a new trial. The decision was based on the results of a thorough investigation by the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU). Humphrey ...
Feb 29 2024

Defendant: Breon Kelly

Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office secures guilty plea from third and last defendant in a 2022 attempted murder case.
On Feb. 27, the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office secured a guilty plea from Breon Kelly, 21, of Columbus for a 2022 shooting incident in Whitehall. Kelly was the third and final person to plead guilty in the shooting. His co-defendants, Larry Latham III, 21, and M...
Feb 21 2024

Defendant: Michael Thilat

Michael Thilat to serve at least 14 years in prison after guilty plea in 2022 murder case
Michael Thilat, 31, of Columbus, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter with a three-year firearm specification in the 2022 death of Anthony Luney. Franklin County prosecutors Kevin Bertelsen and John Gripshover prosecuted the case, and Franklin C...
Feb 16 2024

Defendant: Justus Robertson

Justus Robertson sentenced to 29 years in prison in 2022 murder case
Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Mark Serrott on February 15 sentenced Justus Robertson, 20, of Columbus, to a total term of 29 years to life in prison for the shooting death of Christopher Roberts, Jr. in July of 2022. A jury in January convicted Robertson of seve...
Feb 06 2024

Defendant: Dwayne Cummings

Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office secures guilty verdict in 2022 murder case
A jury today found Columbus resident Dwayne Cummings guilty of one count of murder in the death of Gregory Coleman, Jr. in September of 2022. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Chris Brown presided over the trial, and immediately sentenced Cummings to a life sentence ...

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