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Readers of the Times have relied for decades on the inclusion of public records such as police reports, property transfers and notations of both marriages and divorces in Washington County in addition to public meeting announcements, legal advertisements and obituaries.Then the coronavirus pandemic added an extra hurdle in 2020 to fulfill the expectation of printing public records.
The challenge: Past inclusion of many public records required physical, weekly visits into separate county offices for manual input.
Washington County Probate and Juvenile Court Judge Tim Williams adjusted his office’s software output last year to provide marriage records digitally in response.
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Gross sexual imposition and felonious assault were just two of the offenses brought before the Washington County Grand Jury this week.
Jason Dean Lanning, 37, of 105 Melody Lane, Marietta, was indicted on two counts of felonious assault, both second-degree felonies, after he allegedly pistol whipped a man and tried to run him over with a vehicle.
According to Marietta Police reports, units were dispatched Nov. 18 to 840 Pike St., Sierra Apartments, in reference to an assault. Contact was made with the victims and other witnesses. Through the investigation, it was found that Lanning had arrived at the apartment parking lot and got into a verbal argument that escalated into a gun being pulled and the victim being pistol whipped by Lanning.
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James A. McKnight, right, appears for a change of plea hearing in Washington County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday with Attorney Beau Cross.
A Marietta man pleaded guilty to a third-degree felony in exchange for the dismissal of felony bomb-making charges.
James Allen McKnight, 45, of 26 Colegate Drive, Marietta, was indicted in March 2020 on three charges, including two counts of unlawful possession of dangerous ordnance-illegally manufacturing or processing explosives, both fifth-degree felonies, and one count of improperly discharging firearm at or into a habitation, in a school safety zone or with intent to cause harm or panic to persons in a school building or at a school function, a second-degree felony.
Jan 12, 2021
Nearly five years from the date a joint investigation in Marietta netted a federal raid on the city’s brick streets, a former local physician was sentenced to prison this month.
On Feb. 4, 2016, the combined forces of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the State of Ohio Medical Board, Marietta Police and Washington County Sheriff’s Office, blocked traffic in the 100-block of Putnam Street and executed a search warrant on two downtown offices in that block.
The offices were that of, now, 63-year-old Dr. Roger Anderson.
Now, the former Fleming resident has been sentenced to eight years in prison, following a March 2020 conviction by a jury in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio; Eastern Division.
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The Washington County Grand Jury indicted 14 people this week, including a Belle Valley man who was charged in two separate cases.
In the first case, Timothy J. Steed, 38, last known address of 222 Main St., Belle Valley, was indicted on one count of abduction, one count of having weapons while under disability and one count of failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, all third-degree felonies.
According to Marietta Police reports, while traveling west in the 700 block of Glendale Road on Nov. 16, two patrolmen attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a white Ford Mustang for fictitious registration. The vehicle failed to stop and a pursuit ensued. The pursuit went through Marietta, out Fort Harmar Drive and to Bender Road, where the vehicle suffered mechanical failures and the pursuit ended.