Saturday, March 06, 1999
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Man subdued after threatening self-harm
UNION TOWNSHIP — A man locked inside a house for about six hours while threatening to harm himself was subdued without injury Thursday evening.
Members of the Tactical Entry Team with the Clermont County Sheriff's Office offered the man food and coaxed him to open a door about 9 p.m. The man was inside a house on Bennett Road.
Union Township police are not releasing the man's name. He was taken to Clermont Mercy Hospital for psychological evaluation.
$27K sent to L.A. brings money-laundering charge
A 34-year-old Walnut Hills man was arrested Wednesday on a money-laundering charge.
Police say Moon Pak, of the 2900 block of Alms Place, sent $27,000 via Federal Express to Los Angeles for marijuana.
An investigation through the Regional Narcotics Unit led to his arrest. He is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center awaiting a grand jury hearing.
St. Catharine School holds open house Sunday
St. Catharine School, 3324 Wunder Ave., Westwood, will hold an open house on Sunday.
Anyone interested is invited to view the school and meet the staff and faculty in preparation for the next school year. The school will be open for parishioners between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and non-parishioners between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.
The school has grades K-8 and offers latchkey services and enrichment programs. Information: 481-7683.
Special prosecutor quits after disclosing mob tie
CLEVELAND — A lawyer who was shot — supposedly for crossing a mob boss — resigned Friday as a special prosecutor investigating corruption in Youngstown after disclosing that he had worked as the gangster's attorney years ago.
Gary Van Brocklin, 51, resigned as a special prosecutor with the Mahoning County Fraud Task Force, his attorney Jerry Ingram said.
It marked the third time in as many years that the task force's prosecutor has quit or been fired.
The county common pleas court judges who appointed Mr. Van Brocklin last October accepted the resignation, said Judge Maureen Cronin. The judges will be meeting next week to appoint a successor, she said.
“It's best that he resigned,” Judge Cronin said. “We don't need an attorney distracted by these allegations.”
Mr. Van Brocklin's impartiality was questioned this week after he testified at a mob trial in U.S. District Court in Cleveland. Bernard Altshuler, 68; Lavance Turnage, 26; and Jeffrey Riddle, 38, are accused of doing mob leader Lenine “Lenny” Strollo's dirty work.
Mr. Van Brocklin testified for prosecutors Monday about how Mr. Strollo allegedly had him shot in the leg in 1996 to delay Mr. Turnage's trial on robbery and felonious assault charges.
Man avoids execution in grandparents' slayings
DAYTON, Ohio — A man convicted of killing his grandparents won't be executed for his crime.
A Montgomery County Common Pleas jury on Thursday decided against the death sentence for Dion Sanders, 23. Instead, Mr. Sanders will be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
The sentence will be imposed Monday by Judge David Gowdown.
The same jury, after a three-week trial, convicted Mr. Sanders Feb. 27 of killing Delmer Unum, 77, and Helen Unum, 70, on Dec. 21, 1997.
Mr. Sanders told police he had been staying with his grandparents for about a week when they told him he should surrender to police for violating probation. He said that when he refused, they locked him out of their house.
He broke in and got into an argument and fatally shot the couple with a shotgun, prosecutors said. Police found a bent frying pan prosecutors said was used to strike the couple.
“If there ever was a case for which the death penalty was deserving, this was certainly that type of case,” said Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias Heck Jr. “The jury has spoken, and we accept their verdict.”
Counties' controls upheld over adult entertainment
The fiscal courts that govern Kentucky's counties can regulate adult entertainment businesses, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The 1998 amended state law adopted by the Kentucky General Assembly “makes crystal clear that fiscal court regulation of adult entertainment establishments is permissible,” Judge Ronald Gilman wrote in a 3-0 decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Judge Gilman was joined in the ruling by Judges Gilbert Merritt and Alan Norris.
The ruling overturns an August 1997 decision by U.S. District Judge Thomas Russell in a lawsuit filed by several businesses in the Louisville area challenging the Jefferson County Fiscal Court's authority to regulate them.
After Judge Russell's ruling, Kentucky legislators changed a state law to make clear that it intended to allow fiscal courts to regulate adult entertainment businesses. The lawmakers stated then that they believed the Legislature already allowed the courts to regulate these businesses.
C&H Entertainment Inc., Danny's Inc. and Gold Coast Inc. sued to challenge a Jefferson County ordinance that regulates and licenses adult entertainment businesses and their employees in the county. The ordinance requires businesses providing live or recorded nude entertainment to obtain licenses from Jefferson County and comply with restrictions regarding signs, construction and security.
Charges expected in prison beating death
CALDWELL, Ohio — Charges are expected to be filed against an inmate in the beating death of another inmate at the Noble Correctional Institution.
Roy D. Downing Jr., 36, died Monday at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus of head injuries he received earlier that day, officials said.
Ohio Highway Patrol spokesman, Lt. John Born, said Friday that Mr. Downing and another inmate were in a confrontation Monday afternoon.
“There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that a homicide occurred but we'll have to wait until cause of death is determined,” Lt. Born said.
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Lack of calls angers parents
Poodle credited with alerting owner to fire
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Bad pacemakers cost firm $70 million
Pacemaker recipients will be monitored
Reforms may put disabled to work
Son gives mother half a liver
Swan sightings giving wings to pilot's prayer
Art museum director to resign at end of year
Bill could bring airport extra $6 million
Judge withdraws trip request
Volunteers renew search for Erica
Help for new moms pledged
Jazzy Jarreau takes journey with Pops
Larger study looks at Fernald
Polluters, communities dispute cleanup costs
Time Warner has new deal for Lebanon customers
Architect's career touched many schools
Area lakes stocking up for fishing season
City wins battle over fountains
Debate over jail site stalled
Diverse lesson in respect
Fairfield may erase school fees
Fixing pool gets a lot cheaper
Ft. Mitchell merger looks at finances
Merging three fire departments studied
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