The Enquirer

WEST CHESTER TWP. - Police in Sharonville and West Chester are asking for the public's help to find a man who stole a car and may have attempted two other carjackings.

Around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Lisa N. Heath, 22, of Walnut Hills, told police that a white male, about 190 pounds with a thin beard and wearing a white shirt, tried to open her passenger door while she stopped for a traffic light at Ohio 747 and Smith Road.

Minutes later, Juan A. Ramirez, 28, of Hamilton, told police that a man fitting the same description forced his way into Ramirez's vehicle and demanded money.

Ramirez gave the man $20. Then the robber ordered Ramirez to drive to the area near Union Centre Boulevard and Ohio 747 and ordered Ramirez to get out of the car. The robber drove away.

Ramirez complied because the robber led him to believe he may have been concealing a weapon under his shirt.

Ramirez's car was spotted in Sharonville, where police received a report of an attempted carjacking at the Kroger store on U.S. 42.

Police ask anyone with information to call West Chester police at 759-7276, Sharonville police at 563-1147 or Crime Stoppers at 352-3040.

Hamilton man pleads guilty to 5 rape counts

HAMILTON - A 44-year-old Hamilton man who failed to show up for his rape trial in July pleaded guilty Monday to five counts of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition.

George David Grubb entered the guilty plea before Butler County Common Pleas Judge Patricia Oney. Grubb is scheduled for sentencing and a sexual predator hearing on Nov. 1.

Three of the charges against Grubb involve a girl younger than 13. In July, Grubb failed to show up for his trial. He was arrested several days later in Sevierville, Tenn.

Murder suspect surrenders to cops

Police arrested a man wanted in a killing after he surrendered early Monday.

Dwight Sanders, 27, of Westwood was charged with murder in the July 6 death of Farris R. Mitchell, 28. Mitchell had been shot on Millvale Court two weeks earlier.

The arrest brings to almost 60 percent the number of Cincinnati 53 homicide cases closed so far this year.

Twenty-six of the 31 closed cases have ended with arrests. The other five have been closed in other ways, including the deaths of the suspects.

Sanders also was indicted for illegally carrying a gun because he'd been convicted in May of having a loaded pistol.

Pilot not injured in emergency landing

TURTLECREEK TWP. - The pilot of single-engine aircraft escaped injury Monday afternoon when he made an emergency landing in a grassy field off Kirby Road in Warren County.

The pilot, Gerald C. MacDonald, 52, of Loveland, was going from Newark, Ohio, to the Warren County Airport when the plane ran out of gas, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.

The plane was approximately two miles from the airport runway when MacDonald made the emergency landing, the highway patrol said. The plane was not damaged.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident.