May 13, 2021
Hillsboro Police have a Middletown man in custody following a chase on Tuesday. Over the weekend, 29-year-old Michael Gammoh is alleged to have used his vehicle to crash into a Hillsboro Sunoco station on East Main Street. He then stole a lottery machine from inside the business. Tuesday afternoon, a chase that was started by Adams County authorities, ended when Gammoh crashed his car into a ditch on Fairview/Lapparell Road in Pike County. Gammoh was taken into custody without incident. Gammoh, who has a criminal record in Hillsboro Municipal Court dating back to 1999, was arraigned in that same court yesterday.
May 13, 2021
Hillsboro Police have a Middletown man in custody following a chase on Tuesday. Over the weekend, 29-year-old Michael Gammoh is alleged to have used his vehicle to crash into a Hillsboro Sunoco station on East Main Street. He then stole a lottery machine from inside the business. Tuesday afternoon, a chase that was started by Adams County authorities, ended when Gammoh crashed his car into a ditch on Fairview/Lapparell Road in Pike County. Gammoh was taken into custody without incident. Gammoh, who has a criminal record in Hillsboro Municipal Court dating back to 1999, was arraigned in that same court yesterday.
May 13, 2021
Hillsboro Police have a Middletown man in custody following a chase on Tuesday. Over the weekend, 29-year-old Michael Gammoh is alleged to have used his vehicle to crash into a Hillsboro Sunoco station on East Main Street. He then stole a lottery machine from inside the business. Tuesday afternoon, a chase that was started by Adams County authorities, ended when Gammoh crashed his car into a ditch on Fairview/Lapparell Road in Pike County. Gammoh was taken into custody without incident. Gammoh, who has a criminal record in Hillsboro Municipal Court dating back to 1999, was arraigned in that same court yesterday.
Ratcliff named new JFS director
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Ratcliff
Jeremy Ratcliff, former director of the Highland County Probation Department, has been given the nod to lead the Highland County Job & Family Services office as its new director.
The announcement was made by the Highland County commissioners, who met in special executive session Friday morning as commissioner David Daniels put forth the motion, which was seconded by vice president Terry Britton, to hire Ratcliff, current director of court treatment at the Talbert House in Cincinnati.
According to information supplied by the commissioners office, Ratcliff is a Wilmington College and Western Governors University graduate, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in social and political studies/criminal justice from Wilmington College before going on to achieve a Master of Science Management and Leadership degree from WGU’s College of Business in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Apr 23, 2021
25-year-old Garrison Salyer of Hillsboro is facing a first-degree felony charge of rape of a minor under the age of 10 after admitting to a counselor that he sexually abused his son, according to an affidavit filed Thursday with the Hillsboro Municipal Court. Salyer, 25, confessed to sexually abusing his then 1-year-old son on multiple occasions in 2019 while speaking with a counselor recently at Talbert House, according to the affidavit. Salyer is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Hillsboro Municipal Court this coming Tuesday morning. A Talbert House counselor contacted Highland County Children Services after Salyer’s confession, who in turn asked Hillsboro police for assistance prior to going to Salyer’s residence on Treewood Drive. An officer stated in the affidavit that upon arriving at Salyer s residence Wednesday evening, Salyer admitted that he had committed the crime.