BY The Cincinnati Enquirer
BATAVIA -- A day after being indicted, Charles Jodrey of Milford pleaded not guilty Thursday to 46 counts of forgery, tampering with evidence and driving under the influence.
The eight-time convicted DUI offender remained in the Clermont County Jail on a $250,000 bond set by Clermont Common Pleas Judge Robert Ringland.
Miami Township police arrested Mr. Jodrey, 55, on Thanksgiving on Ohio 28 after suspecting him of drunken driving. He is accused of giving police false information and using a driver's license with a false name.
Mr. Jodrey was convicted in 1984 of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed Anderson Township resident Martin Ackermann.
The Riverside man accused of raping his girlfriend and the woman's 22-month-old son remained in jail Thursday in lieu of a $100,000 cash bond.
Shawn Garrison, 23, was arrested Wednesday and was arraigned Thursday in Hamilton County Municipal Court. A grand jury will hear his case by Jan. 6 and decide on indictments.
His initial charges are assault and rape against his girlfriend and child abuse, felonious assault and rape involving the boy. The woman took her son to the hospital in early December, and doctors concluded the boy had been sodomized. He suffered internal injuries, cracked ribs and a broken shoulder in the Dec. 4 attack, police said. He is in fair condition at Children's Hospital Medical Center.
In interviewing the mother, police say they learned of more abuse. Mr. Garrison is accused of assaulting and raping her in October.
AAA of Cincinnati, Talbert House and Mothers Against Drunk Driving Southwestern Ohio Chapter are sponsoring a holiday Care Cab program. Yellow Cab of Greater Cincinnati and Community Cab in Northern Kentucky will provide free rides home from establishments within the Interstate 275 beltway.
Those wanting Care Cab service should call 281-2273.
Because of the low number of requests for transportation on Christmas in recent years, Care Cab service will not be offered today. But the service will be available over the New Year's weekend, from 6 p.m. New Year's Eve through midnight Jan. 3.
A Pennsylvania man is being held in Hamilton County's jail after an arrest Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused a 13-year-old girl in Cincinnati.
Bobby Craig, 45, of Womelsdorf, Pa., faces a charge of corruption of a minor. He is accused of having sex with the girl two years ago in South Fairmount. If the girl had been a year younger, the charge would have been rape.
Corruption of a minor is a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in jail.
Mr. Craig pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Thursday in Hamilton County Municipal Court. His bond is set at $2,500. A grand jury will decide on indictments by Jan. 6.
AKRON, Ohio -- An attorney was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for keeping $110,000 that was
earmarked for consumers who bought a gas-grill starter marketed as a medical cure-all.
Edwin Davila, 44, of Canton, was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of money laundering. He was accused of pocketing money that people paid him to buy "The Stimulator," which was marketed on infomercials as a pain reliever. Federal officials filed a civil lawsuit, saying the device was nothing more than a modified gas-grill starter. A judge last year halted sales of the device and ordered refunds. The judge said the device needed Food and Drug Administration approval to be sold as medical equipment.
U.S. District Judge David D. Dowd Jr. also fined Mr. Davila $6,000 and ordered him to pay $153,847 in restitution.
ABERDEEN
-- Two people were injured -- one seriously -- in a one-car crash Thursday afternoon on Ohio 41 just north of this Brown County community. The Ohio Highway Patrol said the crash occurred at 4:19 p.m. when the a southbound car containing three passengers went off the road and struck a fence.
BARBERTON, Ohio -- A police cruiser hit and killed a woman who was crossing the street near the city's downtown, police said.
Tammy Crady, 24, of Barberton, was hit at an intersection at 12:20 a.m. Thursday, said Lt. Bill Pfeiffer.
She was taken to Akron City Hospital where she died, Lt. Pfeiffer said.
He would not release the officer's name, say how fast the cruiser was going or give further details about the crash until the investigation is completed.
MEDINA, Ohio
-- A former Ohio State Highway Patrol officer has been sentenced to three months of house arrest after he admitted writing bogus reports crediting him with writing traffic citations that were never handed out.
Timothy Houston, 31, who had served at the patrol's Medina post, pleaded guiltyto eight misdemeanor courts of falsifying records. In return for the plea, prosecutors dropped eight counts of forgery. Mr. Houston has been fired but is appealing his dismissal.
Authorities said Mr. Houston didn't receive any benefit from failing to hand out the citations and the patrol doesn't benefit financially from writing tickets.
LIMA, Ohio -- A former Bluffton College student pleaded not guilty to setting a campus dormitory fire that injured 14 students, including her roommate.
Michelle Mattingly, 19, of the Columbus suburb of Whitehall, did not appear at her arraignment Wednesday but filed a written plea in Allen County Common Pleas Court.
She is charged with one count of aggravated arson. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
Fourteen people were injured in the Sept. 24 fire.
