Butler County ending partnership with ICE
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After 18 years, Butler County is ending a partnership with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE.
The Butler County Sheriff s Office has been under contract with the Department of Homeland Security, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sheriff s office would detain immigrants awaiting hearings in the Butler County Jail.
Sheriff Richard Jones announced Wednesday that he has notified ICE that effective immediately he will not be accepting any ICE detainees at the Butler County Jail.
In a press release, he said he will be terminating the contract to house immigrants in the future.
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Two Ross High School students graduating this year have been charged with felony vandalism after they admitted spray-painting the school, stop signs, a Butler County Sheriff’s Office cruiser and more.
Sean Beltran and Joseph Haynes, both 18, appeared before a judge on Tuesday, Ross Township Police Chief Burton Roberts said in an email.
He said the investigation is continuing and that he does not know whether more people will be charged.
Roberts said an obscene phrase was spray-painted on an electrical box in front of a home on Blue Jacket Drive and that “Kill or be killed” was spray-painted on a sidewalk in front of Ross High School on Hamilton Cleves Road.
The Butler County Sheriff's Office has been under a contract with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to house the detainees while they await immigration hearings since 2003.
Updated: May 14 2021, 1:11 ET
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A CONVICTED murderer who allegedly hacked a woman to death and buried her remains in his backyard has been arrested,
Johnny Edwards Malisham, 60, was arrested by the Santa Rosa Sheriff s Office on Tuesday for murder after police found human remains buried under a burn pit behind his Florida home.
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Johnny Edwards Malisham was charged with murder after someone told police there was a dead body buried in his backyardCredit: SRCSO
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He was apparently identified when someone calling about a missing woman pointed fingers at Malisham.
On Sunday, the caller told the Butler County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama that Malisham killed Cynthia Hoover, 60, with a hatchet.
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A Waterloo man has pleaded guilty to shooting up his ex wife’s home in Parkersburg, according to KIMT. 54 year old Timothy Ovel entered the guilty plea to threatened intimidation with intent to injure, going armed with intent, child endangerment, domestic abuse assault, and reckless use of a firearm. The Butler County Sheriff’s Office says Ovel and his ex wife got into an argument over their children leading to Ovel trying to force his way into the home. When he could not gain entry, he shot the door at least seven times with his ex wife, her mother, and two children inside. A bag containing a spare 9mm magazine, multiple first aid and survival items, loose 9mm bullets, two small ballistic panels used in body armor, and a blue journal were found on the porch. Ovel will be sentenced on July 6