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South Zanesville Traffic Stop Turns into Drug Bust
The South Zanesville Police Department says a weekend traffic stop turned into a drug bust. Chief Mark Ross says patrol officer Dakota Mascher stopped a vehicle with fictitious license plates. The Chief says Mascher recovered over 240 grams of meth, 11 grams of cocaine and 35 grams of fentanyl. The officer also found a loaded firearm. The incident is under investigation with the assistance of the Muskingum County/Zanesville City Joint Drug Unit. Once the investigation is completed the incident will be taken to the Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office for charges. The name of the driver was not released.
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Prosecutors Office Dropping Case Management System
MUSKINGUM COUNTY, Ohio-The Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office spoke with county officials about dropping their current case management system manager.
Prosecutors were deeply dissatisfied with the amount of progress made by their current case management system. They felt that many promises made to them were not kept.
“A case management system allows for the courts, the prosecutor’s office, and law enforcement to maintain a straight line of streaming of information from one resource to another. So the officers on the street, the information they take in and create a case file with would then be passed to the prosecutor’s office and then that information is passed to the court once a criminal indictment is filed. That allows for a single act of data entry as opposed to multiple acts of data entry.”, prosecutor Ron Welch explained.
One in custody for attempted murder in Bates Street shooting
ZANESVILLE - A man found inside his home as police executed a search warrant during a shooting investigating has been charged.
The criminal complaint filed in Zanesville Municipal Court accuses Terrel McConnell of shooting Robert Gladden as he was walking inside his house on Bates Street, after taking his young children to school.
McConnell is charged with one first-degree felony count of attempted murder, 22 second-degree felony counts of felonious assault, 22 second-degree felony counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, 22 third-degree felony counts of discharging a firearm over a public roadway, one third-degree felony count of tampering with evidence and one third-degree felony count of having a weapon while under disability.
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Zanesville Man Sentenced to 70 Years in Prison for the Torture of Children
The Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office says a Zanesville man was sentenced Monday to at least 70 years in prison for the mental and physical abuse of children for nearly 6 months.
39-year-old Elijah Waltz went before Common Pleas Judge Mark Fleegle and was given a minimum of 70 years and a maximum of 75-and-a-half year sentence.
Zanesville Police Detective Phil Michel says a 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy suffered starvation, torture, and abuse in their home at 948 Adair Avenue.
Chief Justice Maureen O Connor wrote that in his affidavit filed in November, Reinhart said that Fleegle was violating the statewide facial covering mandate and failed to implement other precautions such as the use of remote technology to conduct hearings. By doing so, Reinhart said Fleegle was ignoring the recommendations of the chief justice. Given the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in Ohio and Muskingum County, Mr. Reinhart believes that contagious individuals will attend the December trials and that the risk of infection is unreasonable, O Connor wrote.
O Connor also explained Reinhart s concerns that his clients are worried he will be distracted in trial over his own health due to his age, 69, and higher risk for serious complications.