RAVENNA An Ohio man who served nearly 12 years in prison for dousing his wife in kerosene and threatening to set her on fire, is now charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a relative of another woman he had attacked last September.
Patrick M. Boggs, 51, of Ravenna, was free on bond after pleading guilty March 1 to domestic violence involving the second woman.
Ravenna Police Capt. Jake Smallfield said Boggs stabbed a relative of the second woman in the neck and chest after breaking into the relative s apartment early Tuesday morning.
Police said Boggs was identified by the victim and was arrested at about 11 a.m. Tuesday by an off-duty officer at a discount store in Ravenna. He is being held in the Portage County Jail.
One man dead, another injured in head-on crash in Portage County
Beacon Journal
One man died and another was injured in a head-on crash on state Route 14 in Ravenna Township Wednesday morning.
A semi-tractor trailer was stopped in traffic, waiting to turn left onto Lake Rockwell at about 8:30 a.m., when a car swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid hitting the back of truck. The driver of the 2019 Chrysler 300 hit a northwest-bound 2007 Ford Focus, the Record Courier reported.
Zachary P. Cochran, 35, of Wellsville in Columbiana County, was pronounced dead at the scene. William Nagle, 81, of Twinsburg, the Chrysler’s driver, was taken to University Hospitals Portage Medical Center for injuries that did not appear life-threatening.