Wellness check turns up 3 loaded firearms, cash and suspected drugs
The Daily Jeffersonian
A wellness check request for a motorist at a Cambridge gas station Tuesday led to the discovery of suspected narcotics, three firearms and a significant amount of cash by city police officers.
Two of the guns including a handgun mounted under the vehicle s dash were loaded. Another loaded handgun was found in a bag on the passenger seat.
Officers charged the driver, Donald W. McCarty III, 34, of Inwood, West Virginia, with one count each of improper handling a firearm in a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony, and aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony.
On March 18, the Kentucky State Police (KSP) honored 14 civilian employees in-person, during a private ceremony in Frankfort. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, last year s civilian award ceremony was
Bertillion: The Use Of Fingerprinting In The United States
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In 1879, Alphonse Bertillion invented the Bertillion method to record the measurements of a criminalâs body to keep track of criminals in Franceâs prisons and jails. In 1887, R.W. McClaughry, Warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary, introduced the Bertillion method to the United States; however, over time, the Bertillion method had been reduced to only taking the fingerprint. Fingerprinting turned into evidence for forensic science to reconstruct crime scenes around the world, and in the United States, the use of fingerprinting by the government became more widespread to reconstruct crime scenes instead of only preventing crimes.
Pair facing felony drug charges after arrest by CODE agents, deputies
The Daily Jeffersonian
Preliminary hearings have been scheduled for two Cambridge residents facing felony drug charges following an investigation by the Central Ohio Drug Enforcement Task Force and Guernsey County Sheriff s Office last week.
Brittany Gardner, 27, and Tyson Heskett, 22, were arrested by authorities on April 19 after a search warrant was executed at a Cambridge residence.
The preliminary hearings are scheduled for May 6 in the Cambridge Municipal Court.
Gardner faces single counts of permitting drug abuse and aggravated possession of drugs, fifth-degree felonies, while Heskett is charged with aggravated possession of drugs and possession of a fentanyl-related compound, also fifth-degree felonies.
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A semi-retired Ridgewood woman and her four cats were killed in an overnight fire Monday, responders said.
Responders found the body of 66-year-old Sharon Maes in the first-floor living room of her two-story North Pleasant Avenue home after fire broke out shortly before 1 a.m., Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
She d apparently left something unattended in the oven and was overcome by smoke as she tried to flee, responders told Daily Voice.
Maes was pronounced dead at the scene, Musella said, adding that the cause wasn t considered suspicious.
Musella s detectives were working with village police and the Bergen County Sheriff s Bureau of Criminal Identification, which collected evidence, to officially determine the cause.