One of the victims was kept in a dog cage for two days, according to court documents.
Credit: Franklin County Jail Author: 10TV Web Staff Updated: 7:39 PM EST January 13, 2021
A man and woman are in custody after a barricade situation led to the discovery of a woman being kept in a cage in the Franklinton area.
Police were called to the Garden Heights Apartments located in the 1400 block of West Rich Street around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday on a report of two women being kidnapped in the area.
A victim was able to escape the apartment and told police that another victim was still in the apartment and in a dog cage.
Despite months of slowdowns and shutdowns of many courthouse functions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, courts across Ohio managed to keep pace with the cases that were filed in 2020.
The 2.18 million cases that were resolved in the state s courts in the first 11 months of the year slightly exceeded the 2.17 million cases that were filed during those months, according to statistics provided by the Ohio Supreme Court. (Numbers for December haven t been compiled.)
That translated into what the Supreme Court refers to as a clearance rate of 100.7%. The courts actually topped the 100.1% clearance rate for the same period in 2019.
The cases included in the statistics run the gamut from small claims lawsuits and traffic offenses to custody battles and violent felonies.
One week into his term as Franklin County s new prosecutor, Gary Tyack is considering whether his office should take back handling any case involving a former Columbus police officer who was fired within days of fatally shooting an unarmed Black man. I think for years and years, some police have felt they had immunity as long as they told a story about how they shot someone in self-defense, said Tyack, a Democrat who defeated longtime Republican incumbent prosecutor Ron O Brien in the November election. That s what you hear about the cases pending now, Tyack said. The claim is, What I did was in self-defense. You know, His hand wasn t visible to me, and his hand had a cellphone in it, but since I couldn t see one of his hands, I decided he was armed and therefore I needed to shoot. I m sorry, we can t let officers keep getting away with that.