January indictments handed down
Staff report
SCIOTO Shane A. Tieman, Scioto County Prosecutor announced that the January term of the Scioto County Grand Jury met on January 22 and returned 19 Public Indictments and four Secret Indictments. The Defendants Indicted are charged as follows:
JIMMY L. BARNETT, 54, Franklin Furnace, Ohio, 2 Counts Assault, 3 Counts Kidnapping, Gross Sexual Imposition, Obstructing Official Business and Escape.
JIMMY L BARNETT, 54, Franklin Furnace, Ohio, Felonious Assault, 3 Counts Kidnapping and Attempted Felonious Assault.
JIMMY L. BARNETT, 54, Franklin Furnace, Ohio, Gross Sexual Imposition and Burglary.
SASHIA M. JOHNSON, 36, Portsmouth, Ohio, Felonious Assault.
YOLANDA J. SMITH, 53, Portsmouth, Ohio, Felonious Assault.
LUCINDA S. SARPONG, 35, Columbus, Ohio, Tampering with Evidence, Trafficking in Heroin and Possession of Heroin.
2020 is the 35th anniversary of the Franklin Furnace Fund. Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace has annually awarded grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York. In the spring of 2008, Franklin Furnace combined the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art
Among the indictments made by the December 2020 term of the Pike County Grand Jury, filed in Pike County Common Pleas Court on Jan. 5, 2021, included a charge of murder.
In one case, John A. Warren, 62, of 22427 Ohio 335, Waverly, was indicted on one count of murder, a first-degree felony, and tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony.
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News Watchman previously reported on Nov. 11, 2020, that Warren was arrested and charged with murder and tampering with evidence in the death of a local man on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020 after Pike County Dispatch received a call of a stabbing at a residence located at 5719 State Route 220.
Davis, Coleman against insurance payment in Sheriff’s vehicle incident
By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com
The Scioto County Commissioners are vowing to not pay the insurance claims for a wrecked police vehicle, driven by a retired by Scioto County Sheriff s Office administrative employee. Photo by Patrick Keck.
SCIOTO A reported car wreck involving a county vehicle was the subject of condemnation during Tuesday morning’s Scioto County Commissioners meeting.
Reportedly on her way to return her vehicle, now retired Scioto County Sheriff’s office manager Karen Coleman crashed her car in the Sheriff’s office parking lot.
Why this wreck is of issue comes down to what the Commissioners described as a failed return procedure of the vehicle. It is their belief that Karen should have dropped off the keys on the day of her retirement, which the Sheriff’s Office reported to be Dec. 18 in a Facebook post.