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Dave O'Brien

Ohio

Crime Writer at The Chronicle Telegram

Journalist. If they shut me down totally (apparently my page has been "temporarily restricted"), HMU at [email protected].

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  • Former Lorain County man who assaulted, fled cops gets more than 4 years in prison

    3 days ago | chroniclet.com | Dave O'Brien

    ELYRIA — A former Lorain County man who led police on a two-day manhunt last spring was sentenced Monday to at least four and a half years in prison for his crimes. Matt Dillion, 33, of Pennsylvania, had pleaded guilty in Common Pleas Court to 18 felony and misdemeanor charges in two cases filed in 2024. Judge Melissa Kobasher said what Dillion did was so dangerous, he had to go to prison for at least four and a half and up to six years.

  • Judge to rule on whether Ricardo Punsalan should still be committed in father's 1994 killing

    1 week ago | chroniclet.com | Dave O'Brien

    Judge to rule on whether Ricardo Punsalan should still be committed in father's 1994 killingMore than 31 years after he stabbed his father to death in their Sheffield Lake home, Ricardo Punsalan may soon hear from a Lorain County Common Pleas Court judge whether he will continue to be held in a mental health institution or be released back into society.

  • Joseph Ward gets life without parole in grandfather's murder

    3 weeks ago | chroniclet.com | Dave O'Brien

    Joseph Ward gets life without parole in grandfather's murderELYRIA — Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery on Thursday sentenced Joseph Ward to life in prison without the possibility of parole for beating his elderly grandfather to death with a shovel last year, a crime captured on a gruesome home security video. The crime that ended 72-year-old Malcolm Watters Sr.'s life on Feb.

  • Joseph Ward convicted of beating his grandfather to death with a shovel in 2024

    3 weeks ago | chroniclet.com | Dave O'Brien

    ELYRIA — Joseph Ward was convicted Monday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court in the murder of his grandfather, Malcolm Watters Sr., in February 2024. Ward, 21, showed no reaction as Judge Christopher Rothgery read out the verdicts on all 19 charges. He was found guilty of two counts of aggravated murder, four counts of murder — each alleging different elements, theories or facts of the crime that killed Watters, 72, on Feb. 21, 2024.

  • Joseph Ward testifies in his own defense in grandfather's death (VIDEO)

    3 weeks ago | chroniclet.com | Dave O'Brien

    ELYRIA — Accused of murder by beating his grandfather to death with a shovel in February 2024, Joseph Ward took the stand in Friday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court to tell his side of the story. Jurors in Judge Christopher Rothgery's courtroom saw video and heard audio of Ward, 21, beating Malcolm Watters Sr., 72, to death with a shovel on Feb. 21, 2024. That and the bloody pistol-whipping of the older man were captured on the family's in-home video security cameras.

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