Prosecutor: 6 Indicted After Last Week’s Sweep
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ohio—More than a dozen suspects were arrested on drug trafficking charges last week, and a jury returned six indictments Friday.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
The Franklin County sheriff’s office initiated investigations in the Worthington and north metropolitan areas of Franklin County. The investigations resulted in securing multiple arrest warrants for individuals who allegedly were trafficking heroin and other dangerous drugs.
Authorities arrested 13 suspects Thursday, Sept. 24; 19 warrants were served.
The Franklin County Grand Jury returned indictments on these suspects Friday: Shane Smeltzer, Russell Conlon, Jason Huffer, Trenton Radford, Jan Byers and Tyler Shively.
The charges included aggravated trafficking, trafficking cocaine and trafficking marijuana.
According to County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien, all of the indictments (with exception of Shively) have school specifications. That indicates some of the trafficking allegedly occurred within 1,000 feet of school property, specifically Liberty Elementary school and Dublin Scioto High School.
All of the indictments (except Shively’s) include third-degree or high felony charges, which carry mandatory prison time.
The others who were arrested in the sweep were to be considered for Grand Jury presentation at a later date, after the results of lab tests are received.
Arraignments for the indicted individuals were set for 1 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7.
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Well when you peddle drugs in Nice neighborhoods you get caught, and indicted, but if you peddle them in run down neighborhoods, you can get away with it! No one cares in those areas because lets face it, the elderly are pretty much held captive locked up in thier homes afraid to go out while the thugs control the streets and the prostitutes and wanna be pimps ravage the neighborhoods, and no one does anything about it, crime has been ongoing in places like that and everyone knows about it, but if you live in a nice neighborhood, and Judge Mathis said it best when he said that those are where the addicts come from, while the hood rats are the ones selling it to them! Well you know I think some rich kids parents found out and let the neighborhood know about how big the problem actually was and there were a few good sameritans that saw the same type of activity and those people did something about it, but they also had 1) police that actually do thier job because people with money in those areas pay high taxes which fund the force and 2)The streets in the places that were targeted arent over run by thugs and hood rats that create fear in the people to begin with! So they werent the typical thugs that got rounded up in this case they were rich kids that thought they were thugs! When are the cops going to clean up the run down neighborhoods, there use to be nice houses near the downtown area, and that has gone to abandon buldings and houses with squatters that abuse drugs in them and also cause fires! If that isnt happening the elderly in those same areas are captive in thier homes after 6pm for fear of being robbed by these lowlife thug types, I would report crime in these types of areas if the poloce would actually do something about it, but there in actuality are too few police for these areas because they are poor, and tax payers money funds the force, when most of the area is on govt assistance or social security, how can they fund it? It is sad but true and everyone knows that they are laying off more and more officers and the sad thing is that some of them actually did care about thier job and work to make things better but they were few and far between and with all the layoffs I am sure the good guys are gone or there are less of them out there watching over people. Sad, sad reality.


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