NEWARK - A former Zanesville police officer was sentenced to three years of community control on Friday morning after he pleaded guilty to charges related to a shooting incident in Newark.
Charles A. Lewis, 35, of Gnadenhutten, pleaded guilty to one count each discharge of a firearm on prohibited premises, a third-degree felony; improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony; and using weapons while intoxicated, a first-degree misdemeanor, in Licking County Common Pleas Court.
In February 2020, Licking County law enforcement responded to reports of someone firing a weapon out of a moving vehicle on Ohio 16 eastbound near Marne Road in Newark. The suspect vehicle, a 2015 Ford Fusion, was located in Muskingum County and stopped in the area of Kearns Drive.