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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

James Scaff was sentenced on Jan. 25 to eight years and nine months in prison for his role in multiple break-ins and thefts in March and April 2023, and for illegally possessing firearms. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kimberly Cocroft presided over the hearing...

A Franklin County jury on Dec. 15 found Columbus resident Robin Sebastian guilty of murdering Pradeep Anand in 2021. Franklin County Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys Don Miller and Rob Doersam handled the case. Miller and Doersam established that Sebastian, 34, fatally stabb...

Christopher Lee Kimmel, 37, of Columbus pleaded guilty on Friday, Dec. 1, to multiple charges related to two thefts, one which involved stolen police ammunition. Kimmel pleaded guilty to two counts of breaking and entering, three counts of possession of criminal tools, f...