Police say Elijah Lee was found safe after being reported missing on May 5.
Credit: Gahanna Division of Police Author: 10TV Web Staff Updated: 7:11 PM EDT May 7, 2021
GAHANNA, Ohio Gahanna police say a missing 16-year-old boy has been found safe.
Police say Elijah Lee was found safe after being reported missing on May 5.
Police say Elijah Lee was found safe after being reported missing on May 5.
Credit: Gahanna Division of Police Author: 10TV Web Staff Updated: 7:11 PM EDT May 7, 2021
GAHANNA, Ohio Gahanna police say a missing 16-year-old boy has been found safe.
Police say Elijah Lee was found safe after being reported missing on May 5.
The 21 people present for the first night of the latest class of the Franklin County Sheriff s Office s Citizens Police Academy all had different reasons for being there.
Some had always admired law enforcement and wanted an inside look into the profession. Others seated in the room at a sheriff s support services building were interested in one day pursuing a career in law enforcement themselves.
One participant said he simply wanted to see what his tax dollars were funding.
Whatever their reasons for attending, Sheriff Dallas Baldwin said he mainly has one reason for offering the program: transparency. What s a better way to let the public know what we do than something like this? Baldwin asked shortly before he would introduce himself last month at the first of what would be 13 weekly sessions. We re a public agency, and our job is to serve the community, and we can only do that if we have a good relationship.
Unemployment-fraud reports running rampant in central Ohio
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With tax season in full swing, Ohioans are preparing their forms for filing or might already have filed.
For many, those forms include a 1099-G from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services if they lost their job or were furloughed during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and received unemployment assistance.
However, thousands of people across the state have reported receiving a 1099-G despite never opening an unemployment claim, a phenomenon that is part of recent widespread identity-fraud activity, according to central Ohio police departments and state agencies.
Patterns have emerged from community to community over the past several weeks.
Gahanna police release identity of deceased Brookhill Drive woman, say suspect shot self
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The Gahanna Division of Police has identified 47-year-old Linda Purdy as the woman who apparently died from a gunshot wound at 131 Brookhill Drive on Feb. 4.
Approximately 9:02 p.m. Feb 4, the Gahanna Division of Police responded to a call at the residence on a report of an alleged stabbing.
Police found Purdy, who was dead, in a recliner chair in the front living room with head injuries, reports said.
On Feb. 5, Gahanna police reported that she had died from an apparent gunshot wound and, pending an official determination on the cause of death from the Franklin County Coroner’s Office, the case is being investigated as a homicide.