A year after it was a virtual only event for the first time in 48 years, plans are underway for the 49th annual Ernie Blankenship Radio-Telethon with the h
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HCSO Detectives Vincent Antinore, Erica Engle earn Highland County Prosecutorâs Officers of the Quarter Award Highland County Sheriffâs Detectives Erica Engle and Vincent Antinore are pictured with their Highland County Prosecutorâs Officer of the Quarter Awards, as HCPO staff and Sheriff Donnie Barrera look on. Pictured are: (front, l-r) Sheriff Donnie Barrera, office administrator Kathryn Allen and Detectives Erica Engle and Vincent Antinore; (second row, l-r) victim advocates Shelby Burchett and Kayla Conrad; (third row, l-r) office assistant Karen Bridges, administrative assistant Tara Decker and prosecutor Anneka Collins; and (back row, l-r) assistant prosecutors Molly Bolek and Adam King. (HCP Photo/Caitlin Forsha)
Grand theft auto lands Hillsboro man in prison
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
In sentencing hearings held Thursday at Highland County Common Pleas Court, a Hillsboro man was given a 15-month prison sentence, while two others got community control and another had a warrant out for his arrest after failing to appear in court.
Dusty R. Cox, 40, Hillsboro, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after being convicted of grand theft of a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony.
He was given credit for 76 days of jail time already served.
According to a bill of particulars related to the case, Cox was arrested in Greenfield on Jan. 14, 2021 after being found in the possession of a 2000 Chevrolet Blazer that had been reported stolen from a job site one day earlier.
Judge sends man to prison
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
A Texas man entered a plea of guilty to a third-degree felony charge of aggravated vehicular homicide Monday in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
Daniel Martinez, 31, Crystal City, Texas received a 30-month prison sentence from Judge Rocky Coss and in so doing, court documents said that a second count of aggravated vehicular assault, a fourth-degree felony, was dismissed.
His guilty plea, conviction and sentencing was in connection with an incident described in the July 2020 indictment from a Highland County grand jury.
The indictment said that on Nov. 1, 2019, while “operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle,” described as a Chevrolet Impala, Martinez caused the death of Cody Spencer recklessly.
Two will face list of sex charges
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
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A Greenfield man will observe his birthday during a pretrial hearing Wednesday in Highland County Common Pleas Court on one count of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, a second-degree felony.
Nathan Murray, 32, is facing a 24-count indictment returned by a Highland County grand jury on April 6 on charges ranging from a first-degree count of rape and a third-degree felony charge of gross sexual imposition, to six counts of the second-degree felony of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, to 16 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, each a fourth-degree felony.