Arrests, shootings, robberies and criminal activity in Columbus
Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein is asking a Franklin County court to hold the owners of First Stop Bar and Grill in contempt after a shooting at the bar this past weekend left two people injured, according to Klein’s office. The bar, located at 1427 Oakland Park Avenue in North Linden, has a history of … Read more
COLUMBUS: The Columbus Division of Police has forwarded a viral video showing a use-of-force incident to the Columbus Department of the Inspector General after the footage spread widely on social media, according to police. The incident happened Tuesday night along Cleveland Avenue in the Linden neighborhood on Columbus’s Northeast Side. The Video Shows Officers were … Read more
COLUMBUS — The Weinland Park home where Spencer and Monique Tepe were fatally shot in December has been listed for sale at $775,000, drawing tens of thousands of online views within days of the listing going live, according to real estate records. The property sits on the 1400 block of North Fourth Street in Columbus, … Read more
COLUMBUS, Three members of the Ohio Air National Guard assigned to the 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in southeast Columbus were among six U.S. service members killed Thursday when a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq, according to U.S. Central Command and Ohio officials. Family members identified one of the … Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio Friends and coworkers are remembering Dion Theodore Carter, a 50-year-old maintenance worker who was fatally stabbed early Wednesday at a Hilltop apartment complex where he lived and worked. Columbus police responded to a stabbing report around 12:05 a.m. at an apartment complex in the 1700 block of Sullivant Avenue, according to the Columbus … Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Petrocelli Robertson will spend 20 years in federal prison after admitting he led a drug trafficking operation that distributed fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine in west Columbus, federal officials said. Petrocelli Robertson, 40, also known as “Bible” and “Juice,” received a 240-month prison sentence from Michael H. Watson in the United States District … Read more
COLUMBUS, A person died after a shooting early Saturday outside a hotel in north Columbus, police said. Officers from the Columbus Division of Police received a call about a shooting around 1:31 a.m. on the 6100 block of Quarter Horse Drive. Police went to the scene and found a person with a gunshot wound. The … Read more
COLUMBUS — Kokosing Construction is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the driver who struck and killed one of its workers in a downtown Columbus work zone last week and drove away. The victim, Jordan Thomas, 25, died at the scene at 2:12 a.m. on February 28. He had worked … Read more
DELAWARE COUNTY — Jacob A. Smith, 50, a Columbus Division of Police officer, was arrested Saturday in Delaware County and charged with felony strangulation and illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor permit premises after he allegedly strangled his girlfriend twice outside a Polaris-area restaurant, according to court records.Smith was arraigned in Delaware County … Read more
The SUV was moving at high speed when it clipped a sign pole, sending the sign crashing onto the roof before the vehicle rolled into a parking lot. The driver fled on foot and remains unidentified. Columbus police are asking the public to help. A driver fled on foot after a Ford Edge rolled multiple … Read more