Criminal Law

• DUI/DWI
  BATH: On April 14 police responding to a vehicle crash on North Hametown Road found a vehicle in a ditch with the driver behind the steering wheel and open beer cans inside the vehicle and strewn around the accident scene. The driver was transported to a hospital, where he refused to provide a urine sample for a BAC test, and was charged with DUI.
• Traffic Violations
  WEST AKRON: Police responding to report of shots fired on Storer Avenue March 26 saw several vehicles speeding away. Police pursued one vehicle following another, but the drivers failed to stop until additional police responded to help. One woman said she went to the location to take food to a man there. Another woman came outside and an argument ensued. […]
• Burglary
  WEST AKRON: On Feb. 6, police investigated the burglary at a Roslyn Avenue home after a woman reported she came home to find a door standing open, two rooms ransacked and jewelry and other items missing. Also, a Zahn Drive resident reported an electronic camera was stolen from the porch and a door lock was stolen from the kitchen. The […]
• Theft
• Misdemeanors
• Drug Crimes
  Officers responding to reports of shots fired on Hoye Avenue April 18 found three people running into a house. Police spoke to a man and woman standing beside a vehicle who stated they heard no gunshots. Police attempted to stop the driver of the vehicle, which sped away, and eventually stopped it on Copley Road. The same man and woman they interviewed earlier were found in the vehicle, along with narcotics. The woman surrendered methamphetamine and a drug pipe and police found ammunition for an automatic weapon in the vehicle. The man admitted he lied about hearing shots at the first location, but stated he did not know who fired them, and the woman admitted she drove two men who had firearms to a Copley Road house. She was charged with drug possession and taken to the Summit County Jail on two warrants and the vehicle was towed.
• Assault
• Murder
  On April 19 police responding to a shooting on Timber Trail found a man with a gunshot wound in the parking lot. He was rushed to a hospital, where he later died of his injuries. Police determined he arrived at the location to make a food delivery, following an altercation with two men in the Highland Square area 30 minutes earlier. Police arrested the two men on Tyler Street several hours later, charged them with assault and took them to the Jail. The charge was later upgraded to murder.

Finance Law

• Tax Law