Woman held at gunpoint with kids in house in Coventry Township, Sheriff says Woman held at gunpoint with kids in house in Coventry Township By Steph Krane | March 1, 2021 at 10:38 AM EST - Updated March 1 at 10:39 AM
COVENTRY TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WOIO) - A man held a woman at gunpoint early Saturday morning while her kids and another woman were in the house, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office said.
Just before 6:30 a.m., 25-year-old Andrew Scovern grabbed a woman and held her at gunpoint in a home on Lake Vista Road, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The woman was able to convince Scovern to release her.
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Normally a site of serenity, the Jordanelle Reservoir overlook on S.R. 248 was briefly the scene of chaos Thursday when a stolen vehicle careened into a parked car and the wanted felon driving it jumped out and began running through a nearby subdivision.
When Summit County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested him on a nearby street, it was the culmination of a high-speed chase that tore through the Kamas Valley and involved law enforcement personnel from multiple agencies, according to Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright.
The incident began Thursday morning, when deputies received word that the man, who had an outstanding arrest warrant, was going to be visiting someone in the Kamas Valley, Wright said. The rendezvous occurred later that afternoon, and law enforcement personnel from the Sheriff’s Office, as well as the Kamas Police Department and Utah Highway Patrol, were waiting there to arrest the 36-year-old East Carbon man.
Judge dismisses charges against former Summit County sheriff’s deputy, cites racial bias for prosecution Robin Goist, cleveland.com
AKRON, Ohio – A judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against a former Summit County Sheriff’s deputy who was accused of misusing a police database, agreeing with the deputy’s claims that he was selectively prosecuted because he is Black.
Antonio Williamson, 50, had faced 10 counts of improperly using a law enforcement database by engaging in behaviors which his attorneys argued – and Common Pleas Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands agreed – were exhibited by white deputies who were not prosecuted.
“The Summit County Sheriff’s deliberate choice not to exercise any discretion in (Williamson’s) prosecution for the same violations committed by white Summit County Sheriff Office deputies, who were not referred for prosecution, is invidious conduct based on defendant’s race,” Rowlands wrote in an order Wednesday dismissing t