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The $55 million building includes laboratories, a ballistics testing range, a radiology suite capable of virtual autopsies, training areas and a lot more space in general. The old building was outdated - didn t even have enough electricity, says Coroner Lakshmi Sammarco, MD. We d have to unplug some of the machines to plug in other machines. We had no windows, so we had no natural light to process evidence, which was very difficult with just florescent light bulbs. Just all of those inefficiencies, plus the ventilation hoods weren t even working properly.
The Corryville facility also had frequent power outages. At least once the body coolers were without power for up to four days, forcing the office to scramble to find an alternative solution.
A Walnut Hills man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his child s death from ingesting fentanyl, court documents state.
Charles Douglas Foggie Jr., 26, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in March, according to documents filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
Foggie was sentenced this month to three years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter charge, which will run consecutively, with a two-year sentence for another charge that was filed against him in 2017, documents show.
His son, 18-month-old Brayden Foggie, died in October of 2019 at Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, according to the Hamilton County Coroner s Office.