Four co-defendants who pled guilty to charges related to the 2023 death of a 13-year-old boy and drug trafficking have all been sentenced.   Today, Judge Jaiza Paige sentenced Jose Garcia-Huerta, 26, to 8 years in prison. He pled guilty to three counts of Trafficking in a ...

A Columbus woman was sentenced to prison for four consecutive life sentences , with eligibility for parole after 60 years for drugging multiple victims with a fatal dose of fentanyl prior to robbing them. Franklin County Judge Karen Phipps sentenced Rebecca Auborn, 35, on F...

A Columbus drug dealer whose actions were deemed an “insidious example of profiting at the expense of others” by Franklin County prosecutors was sentenced on Oct. 6 to at least 112 years in prison.   On Oct. 1, a Franklin County jury found Troy Locke, 40, guilty on 13 f...

A Prairie Township motel that has been the site of repeated drug and violent activity was shut down today by the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office’s newly formed Nuisance Abatement Unit . The New Rome Motel, 5246 W. Broad St., closed at noon following a preliminary i...

On January 14, 2025, Judge Andy Miller sentenced Tayvion Taylor to a minimum of 17 years and a maximum of 22.5 years in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The sentence stems from Mr. Taylor’s involvement in a serious incident that occurred on October 7, 202...

A 27-year-old Columbus man has been sentenced to 25 to 30-½ years in prison for his role in a 2022 shooting that left Mario Copeland, 38, dead. Devon Robinson pleaded guilty Wednesday, July 28, to voluntary manslaughter for killing Copeland, also of Columbus. Robinson also ...

The Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced that the Franklin County grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Alea Weil, 29, of Marietta, Ga. Weil is charged with aggravated vehicular assault, vehicular assault, possession of a fentanyl-related compou...

Indictments stem from 2021 death of Franklin County Corrections Center inmate A Franklin County grand jury on Friday indicted Jamila Perry, 30, of Columbus on seven counts related to the 2021 death of Fredreca Ford. On June 26, 2021, Ms. Ford was found unresponsive at th...

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 voted not to indict Columbus Division of Police officers and Mt. Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital security officers involved in the April 12, 2021, shooting death of Miles Jackson. The grand jury’s verdict was announced on Oct. 26, 2022. On April 12, 2...