Female sentenced for role after courtroom escape
By Jacob Clary - jclary@aimmediamidwest.com
A Hillsboro woman was sentenced to three years of community control Monday for aiding a man after he escaped from the Highland County Common Pleas Courtroom in September of last year.
Amber Ward, 29, Hillsboro, was sentenced on one count of complicity to escape and one count of failure to appear.
A bill of particulars said that on Sept. 22, 2020, law enforcement received information that Ward had been in contact with Nickolaus Garrison, who had escaped from the courtroom the same day. It said staff at a Holiday Inn in Clinton County found that on Sept. 24, 2020, at 3 p.m., two women and a man checked into a room that had been paid for with a debit card in Ward’s name. A sergeant reviewed video footage and positively identified Ward and Alicia Ralston, but did not recognize Garrison.
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Court escapee gets six more years
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
In this screenshot from a YouTube stream of the proceeding, attorney Kirk McVay (left) confers with Nickolaus Garrison prior to sentencing on Tuesday in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette
A man whose dramatic escape from the Highland County Common Pleas Courtroom lat year was captured on video was sentenced to an additional six years in prison Tuesday in the same courtroom.
Nickolaus Garrison, 34, Hillsboro, appeared before visiting Judge Daniel Hogan and pled guilty to one count of escape, a third-degree felony; and one count of assault on a peace officer, a fourth-degree felony, in connection with his escape from the second-story courtroom last September.
Ralston sentenced Monday
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Shown from left, attorney J.D. Wagoner and Alicia Ralston during her sentencing hearing Monday in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
Facebook screenshot by Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette
One of the two women involved in the September 2020 escape attempt by Nickolaus Garrison, 34, Hillsboro, received a three-year community control sentence Monday by visiting Judge Daniel Hogan in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
The 18-month prison sentence that Alicia M. Ralston, 32, Chillicothe, could have received on the complicity to escape conviction was suspended by Hogan, with instructions in the courts conditions of supervision ordering that she continue in her efforts to obtain her GED, and successfully complete substance abuse disorder treatment through the Georgia Harris house and all recommended aftercare.