Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young has been indicted on a single charge stemming from a three-year-old texting scandal.
A Hamilton County grand jury on Thursday charged Young with tampering with records, a third-degree felony punishable by up to three years in prison.
In a statement, Patrick Hanley, the special prosecutor who has been investigating Young for more than a year, said that between January and October of 2018, Young "knowingly and with the purpose to defraud, destroyed text messages that belonged to a government entity."
Hanley told The Enquirer this marks the end of his investigation into the "Gang of Five" case. None of the other four council members accused of illegally texting with each other will be criminally charged.