Driver indicted in brother's crash death

A Hamilton County grand jury indicted a 29-year-old Withamsville man Tuesday on two charges of aggravated vehicular homicide.

Brian Spiller is accused of killing his brother, Doug Spiller, 24, in an April 3 car accident, according to court records.

Brian Spiller was driving a 1993 Volkswagen Fox on Rapid Run Pike in Price Hill when he lost control and slammed into a utility pole, according to Cincinnati police. Both men were thrown from the car.

Police said they determined Brian Spiller's blood-alcohol level to be 0.169, more than twice Ohio's legal limit of 0.08.

Third man sentenced in drug-related killing

The last of three men accused in the killing of a drug runner who pilfered money from a drug lord three years ago in Kenwood was sentenced Tuesday on a charge of tampering with evidence.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Charles Kubicki Jr. sentenced Jerry Dorizas, 46, of Kenwood, to three years on probation for helping dump the body of Roberto Valedez of San Antonio.

Dorizas and another man are accused of helping Edward O'Connor dispose of Valedez' body, which was found burning in a Walnut Hills trash bin in summer 2000.

In March, Kubicki sentenced O'Connor, 48, to spend 16 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, tampering with evidence, gross abuse of a corpse and illegal possession of a firearm.

The sentence was part of a plea agreement in which prosecutors agreed to drop a charge of murder if O'Connor admitted to the killing.

Convicted murderer gets up to life in prison

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Ethna Cooper sentenced a Westwood man Tuesday to spend at least 18 years in prison for a Dec. 4 homicide.

A jury convicted Adam Price, 21, on May 25 on charges of murder and illegally having a weapon in the shooting death of Westwood resident Matthew Pierce, 18, near Montana and Millrich avenues during a robbery.

Cooper sentenced Price to spend up to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 18 years.