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Police have identified a 26-year-old man shot by a Butler County Sheriff s deputy in Ross Township Monday.
Alex Hoskins was brandishing a firearm, according to the Butler County Sheriff s Office release. He was treated and released from Fort Hamilton Hospital. The sheriff s office has Hoskins in custody.
Officials said they were executing a search warrant when the man was shot. Police said in the release that Hoskins believed he was under investigation, and that he bought a firearm in preparation for a confrontation with police.
Police said Hoskins admitted to possessing, sending, and receiving child pornography. He was charged with felonious assault, and three counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material/performance.
A Butler County Grand Jury has declined to issue an indictment in the January standoff that ended with an armed man being shot four times by an officer.
On January 11, the Butler County Regional SWAT team responded to a 911 call from a resident living in the 6800 block of Yoakum Court at Lakota Pointe Townhomes near Liberty Junior High School.
The caller said someone she knew broke through her front door and had a pistol.
By the time SWAT arrived, the caller was able to get out of the apartment. The man who broke in, Junius Thomas III, 31, was still inside, according to officials.
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Historic D-Day aircraft visits area
Former U.S. Army 101st Airborne paratrooper Ron Tucker of Cincinnati grasps the “hook-up” cable inside historic C-47
That’s All Brother just as he did while a paratrooper in the famed 101st Airborne, and inside the same aircraft that some 16 paratroopers jumped behind German lines on 6 June 1944 over Normandy
Mike Ullery | Miami Valley Today
C-47
That’s All Brother painted exactly as she looked as she led 800 other C-47 aircraft as the spearhead of the 12,000+ troop parachute drop of 101st and 82nd Airborne troops behind enemy lines over Normandy on D-Day.
Mike Ullery | Miami Valley Today