Jeff Saunders

Kent

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Kent men charged with robbery for allegedly confronting third man with loaded shotguns

1 week ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

Two Kent men were arrested after they allegedly confronted a third man with loaded shotguns at a Kent apartment complex during the evening of May 25. Bryce Allen Boylen and Jeffrey Tyler Dolan, both 19 and with Silver Meadows Boulevard addresses, are charged in Portage County Municipal Court in Kent with first-degree felony aggravated robbery.
Woman to spend at least 4 years in prison for Ravenna Eagles Club drug overdoses

1 week ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

A Ravenna Township woman will be going to prison for her role in the non-fatal overdoses of a half dozen people at the Ravenna Eagles Club nearly a year ago. Visiting Judge John Enlow, filling in for Judge Laurie Pittman, sentenced Jamie A. Perry, 40, to four to six years in prison during her sentencing hearing May 27 in Portage County Court of Common Pleas. James Eskridge, Perry's attorney, had requested probation and Portage County Prosecutor Connie Lewandowski requested nine years in prison.
Fremont woman admits stabbing elderly man

2 weeks ago | thenews-messenger.com | Jeff Saunders

A Sandusky County teen accused of trying to stab an elderly Ravenna Township man to death is awaiting sentencing after pleading to a lesser charge. Alexis Nicole Davis, 19, of Fremont, pleaded guilty to second-degree felony assault during a May 14 pretrial hearing in Portage County Common Pleas Court, according to court records. Court records provide a Fremont address for Davis, but a Portage County sheriff's report lists a Kent address for her.
Portage towns to observe Memorial Day with ceremonies, parades

2 weeks ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

Memorial Day weekend in Portage County will include parades, solemn ceremonies, along with volunteers tending to the graves of fallen military personnel. Events are on Memorial Day, May 26, unless otherwise noted. Send any events we missed to [email protected]. AuroraAurora's American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts will honor the men and women who died while serving in the US military with a wreath-laying ceremony at 10:15 a.m. May 26 at Veterans Memorial Park, 40 W. Garfield Road.
Sandusky County woman admits stabbing Ravenna Twp. man

2 weeks ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

A Sandusky County teen accused of trying to stab an elderly Ravenna Township man to death is awaiting sentencing after pleading to a lesser charge. Alexis Nicole Davis, 19, of Fremont, pleaded guilty to second-degree felony assault during a May 14 pretrial hearing in Portage County Common Pleas Court, according to court records. Court records provide a Fremont address for Davis, but a Portage County sheriff's report lists a Kent address for her.
Cleveland man gets 17 years in prison for 2 Ravenna fentanyl overdose deaths

2 weeks ago | beaconjournal.com | Jeff Saunders

RAVENNA − A Cleveland man will spend more than 17 years in prison for his part in the fatal fentanyl overdoses of a city man and woman. Portage County Common Please Court Judge Laurie J. Pittman sentenced Julian Alexander Tyes, 37, to 17½ years in prison May 19 during a hearing. "You screwed your life up," Pittman told Tyes during the sentencing. "It's all in your hands. You've got to take responsibility.
Cleveland man gets 17 years in prison for 2 Ravenna fentanyl overdose deaths

2 weeks ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

RAVENNA − A Cleveland man will spend more than 17 years in prison for his part in the fatal fentanyl overdoses of a city man and woman. Portage County Common Please Court Judge Laurie J. Pittman sentenced Julian Alexander Tyes, 37, to 17½ years in prison May 19 during a hearing. "You screwed your life up," Pittman told Tyes during the sentencing. "It's all in your hands. You've got to take responsibility.
After BCI report, Portage prosecutor clears Ravenna police in shooting on bike and hike trail

2 weeks ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

It was a beautiful day for a bike ride, hike or a jog on the Portage County Hike and Bike Trail. "It's not a good day," a Ravenna Police officer said Oct. 22, 2024, as he stood by the trail at Freedom Street. The officer could be heard in a video from another officer's body camera as police gathered after a confrontation between officers and a knife- and ax-carrying Matthew Fries on the trail. Two officers minutes before had fatally shot Fries.
Judge gives Garrettsville man gets 30 years to life for twice raping girl in Aurora

3 weeks ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

A Garrettsville man could spend the rest of his life in prison for twice raping a girl in Aurora. Portage County Common Pleas Judge Becky Doherty sentenced Nicholas Lee Blankenship, 43, to life with a possibility of parole after 30 years during his May 16 sentencing hearing. She also determined he is a Tier III sex offender, which would require him to register with the sheriff of any county he lives, works or goes to school in every 90 days for life if he's released from prison.
Driver charged after pursuit, crash in Mantua

3 weeks ago | record-courier.com | Jeff Saunders

A Portage County grand jury has indicted a Euclid man whom police say led them on a short chase that ended in a crash May 12 in Mantua. Richard J. Lewis, 42, is charged with third-degree felony failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, fifth-degree felony obstructing official business and second-degree misdemeanor resisting arrest. The indictment was filed May 15 in Portage County Common Pleas Court.