Press Releases

Sep 27 2022

Defendant:

Access To Justice Community Outreach Event
“The Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office helped coordinate, with the help of some 10 federal, state and local agencies, a first of its kind forum to promote public safety and well- being on 9.22.22.   One where the participating agencies could compare notes and see what ot...
Aug 02 2022

Defendant: Rashad Short

Rashad Short Found Guilty in Two Separate Columbus Murders
A Franklin County jury on Thursday July 28ᵗʰ found Rashad Short, last known address 989 East 17ᵗʰ Ave, Columbus, guilty of two separate murder charges following a nine-day trial. The court convicted Short of nine counts stemming from the shooting deaths of Jordan Gray and Dant...
Feb 11 2022

Defendant:

Largest Drug Case in Recent History Out of Prosecutor’s Office: 79 Indicted, Over $1M in Fentanyl, $500K in Cash Seized During Multi-Agency Task Force Investigation Breaking Up Drug Trafficking Organization
In March 2021, the Central Ohio HIDTA Task Force, an Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC) task force, began a lengthy drug trafficking investigation within the central Ohio area. This was an investigation of an incredibly complex drug trafficking organization...
Oct 16 2020

Defendant: multiple defendants

STATE PROSECUTION OF 35 DRUG CASES IN JOINT EFFORT WITH FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF 8 CASES IS CONCLUDED WITH NEARLY MILLION SEIZED
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The final two of eight defendants in a $44 million money-laundering case were convicted today when they pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court. Two other co-conspirators were sentenced today in federal court as well. Local and federal law enforcement, working i...
Sep 02 2020

Defendant: Paul Nelson Chiles AKA Tommy Gunz

MAN INDICTED FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING, DRUG TRAFFICKING, AND INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER FOR PROVIDING FENTANYL THAT LED TO VICTIM’S FATAL OVERDOSE
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said, “This drug dealer provided illegal narcotics to coerce and force his victims into human trafficking and to exploit the victims for his own financial gain.  One of his victims fatally overdosed from the Fentanyl provided by the suspe...
Aug 25 2020

Defendant: Marcus Jahroam Carmon, Anthony Lamont Dunn, and Bradley C. Powell

RICO INDICTMENT FILED ON THREE ADULTS FOR LURING VICTIMS INTO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said, “Our office will continue to coordinate efforts with other agencies to rescue victims who are forced or coerced into human trafficking, and we will hold those traffickers accountable for exploiting these victims for their own financ...
Feb 26 2020

Defendant: Roberto Defield, Joaquin A. Aguirre-Medina, Juan A. Lagunas-Quezada, Gaudencio Garcia, Juan F. Acevedo-Alvarado, Francisco J. Navarro-Montes

RICO INDICTMENT FILED ON SIX MEN INVOLVED IN TRAFFICKING KNOCKOFF OXYCODONE PILLS CONTAINING FENTANYL
Prosecutor Ron O’Brien stated, “These men were found to be in possession of almost a thousand pills marked to appear to be 30 mg Oxycodone, but contained fentanyl instead.”  Prosecutor Ron O’Brien announced that the Franklin County Grand Jury has returned RICO indictments agai...
Feb 14 2020

Defendant: Edgar Gutierrez Ochoa

MAN INDICTED FOR POSSESSING 2 POUNDS OF HEROIN AND ¼ POUND OF FENTANYL
Prosecutor Ron O’Brien stated, “This man was found to be in possession of approximately one kilogram (almost two pounds) of heroin, $14,000 in cash, and at least 120 grams of fentanyl, of which 20 of the grams of fentanyl had been mixed with heroin.”  Prosecutor Ron O’Brien an...
Nov 19 2019

Defendant: Samuel Lee Edwards, Elbert Louis Joiner, Jr., Lamonte Anthony Rayford, Troy Eugene Whitfield, Shelby Lynn Freeze, Rene Roderick Carter, and Shanteeia Antoniette Harvey

HUMAN TRAFFICKING INDICTMENT FILED ON SIX ADULTS FOR LURING VICTIMS INTO PROSTITUTION
Prosecutor Ron O’Brien stated, “The ring-leader of this enterprise and his associates recruited and exploited vulnerable women to work for them as prostitutes in order to personally benefit financially.” Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien and Attorney General Dave Yost ann...
Jun 05 2019

Defendant: Dr. William Scott Husel

DR. WILLIAM S. HUSEL INDICTED FOR 25 COUNTS OF MURDER IN MOUNT CARMEL HOSPITAL PATIENT DEATHS
Prosecutor Ron O’Brien announced today that a twenty-five (25) count indictment for separate counts of Murder (Section 2903.02, Ohio Revised Code) was filed by the Franklin County Grand Jury against Dr. William Scott Husel, D.O. in connection with treatment administered at Mou...

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