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IRONTON — An Ironton man was sentenced earlier this week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to 20-and-a-half years to 26 years in prison in a drug case.

FORT SMITH -- Two former Crawford County sheriffs office deputies were arrested and charged with federal civil-rights offenses Tuesday over the use of excessive force in connection with an arrest that was recorded and went viral in August.

The Crawford County sheriffs office is facing another federal civil-rights lawsuit, the third concerning a reported use of force after a video showing law enforcement officers holding down and beating a man went viral in August.

FORT SMITH -- The Crawford County Sheriffs Office is facing another federal civil rights lawsuit, the third concerning a reported use of force after a video showing law enforcement officers holding down and beating a man went viral in August.

Brad Wiley, chief deputy for the Crawford County Sheriff's Office, reads a statement Wednesday to the media at the Sheriff’s Office in Van Buren. (Photo

A jury trial concerning a reported use of force by the Crawford County Sheriffs Office was set in federal court this week, the second after a video showing two deputies holding down and beating a man went viral in August.

A law enforcement officer gestures toward a person recording the arrest of a man in Crawford County in this screenshot from a video recorded Sunday, Aug. 21,

One of the Crawford County sheriffs deputies facing a lawsuit over an arrest captured in a video that went viral in August was sued Friday by a woman claiming he also used excessive force against her during an arrest about two months earlier.

The two Crawford County sheriffs deputies shown holding down and beating a man in a viral video in August have been terminated from their positions.

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