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CANTON – A North Canton man is accused of raping a 12-year-old child last year.
According to Stark County Jail records, Darrell H. Jones, 34, of Mississippi Street SE, was brought back from prison on Monday to face felony charges of gross sexual imposition and two counts of rape.
He was on parole after serving time in prison for having weapons under disability and three counts of drug possession when the allegations occurred between May 2020 and December 2020, according to Stark County court records and Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction records.
Court records show he was returned to prison after he violated his parole and, when a Stark County grand jury indicted him in February on the sex offense charges, he was still in the Lorain Correctional Institution in Grafton.
TOLEDO - Ohio’s Sixth District Court of Appeals upheld the sentence of a former Fremont man serving nearly a decade in prison for multiple felony offenses stemming from a series of break-ins and thefts throughout Ottawa County in 2018.
Steven Rider, 27, was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of burglary, a second-degree felony, and two counts of attempted burglary, third-degree felonies, in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court in 2019.
Rider, along with three others, two of whom were juveniles at the time, were accused of entering more than 20 properties, primarily trailers, campers and homes, between Portage and Catawba Island Township, where they stole items and vandalized the interior of many of those residences in 2018.
First published Dec. 21 in TheStatehouseFile.com
For 41 people incarcerated at Indiana Department of Correction facilities, a prison sentence became a death sentence from the pandemic that has claimed the lives of 7,000 Hoosiers.
Data for the toll on prisons is incomplete, with only totals of deaths and cases since the beginning of the pandemic listed. There is no statewide database on cases in jails. Once the virus enters the confined, crowded areas, the results can be deadly. On Dec. 8, 56-year-old Fred Whitlock died of COVID-19 in Vigo County Jail. Whitlock collapsed while carrying his breakfast to his bunk at the Terre Haute facility.