Times-Reporter
BOLIVAR A suspect was wounded Tuesday following a standoff and police chase in the Bolivar area.
Sheriff Orvis Campbell said his office was asked at 10:20 a.m. to investigate a suspicious letter that was left in a mailbox.
A deputy responded to a home in the 1300 block of Russell Drive NW, Lawrence Township, to question a suspect. The deputy did not get an answer at the door. As the deputy walked back to his car, he heard a gunshot and saw where a bullet round had hit the ground in front of the house, Campbell said.
The deputy got into his car and retreated to a position of safety and called for back-up. Other deputies arrived, as well as Bolivar and Strasburg police. At that time, a person from the house came out, raised a long gun and fired at deputies.
The Times-Reporter
BOLIVAR A 68-year-old man who fired repeatedly at law enforcement officers on Tuesday had not been acting right since his wife died in November, a neighbor told a Tuscarawas County sheriff s deputy.
The neighbor said there had been times when Donald Whiting drove recklessly up and down Russell Drive NW, and had sat in his vehicle at the home of another neighbor, a woman.
It was a complaint from that woman, who said Whiting had put into her mailbox an odd letter that made no sense, that started the chain of events that ended hours later after Whiting fled his home and crashed his truck about 10 miles away in Fairfield Township.
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MANSFIELD - John Mack Jr. could face the death penalty if convicted on aggravated murder charges in the death of his ex-girlfriend, Melinda Kay Davis.
Mack was indicted on 17 counts Wednesday including aggravated murder, kidnapping, and tampering with evidence.
Davis, 33, of Shelby, was reported missing Feb. 25 and her body was found in the trunk of her car March 14 in an apartment parking lot on the western edge of Columbus.
A Richland County grand jury met in a special session this month and found that Davis death occurred while the offender was committing, attempting to commit, or fleeing immediately after committing or attempting to commit kidnapping and either the offender was the principal offender in the commission of the aggravated murder or, if not the principal offender, committed the aggravated murder with prior calculation and design.
Traffic stops yield arrest of men on unrelated warrants
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A Cleveland man facing extradition back to West Virginia where he faces a felony arrest warrant was one of two wanted men arrested in a five-hour span by law enforcement in Guernsey County.
Guernsey County sheriff s deputies arrested Joshua M. Selby, 31, Cambridge, at 9:19 p.m. Wednesday and State Highway Patrol troopers arrested Kaprice D. Russell, 33, Cleveland, just before 2:30 a.m. Thursday.
Selby is facing an assault charge in Guernsey County while Russell faces a felony offense for persons prohibited from possessing a firearm in Ohio County, W.Va.