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jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Photo by Janelle Patterson Washington County Common Pleas Judge John Halliday speaks to Irwin Alexander Gray via teleconference in the Washington County Courthouse on Wednesday during a sentencing hearing. One-third of a set of defendants in a methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking case from last summer is headed to more than a decade of prison service. “He’s doing an additional two years in Pennsylvania after he gets out for violating terms of his last prison release,” said Lt. Josh Staats, of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office and commander of the ...

∫ The victim in the case asked for leniency. ∫ He will serve an intermittent sentence, which will be over 15 weekends. Source: Washington County Court of Common Pleas. A Belpre man who pleaded guilty to domestic violence April 14 was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in jail and two years community control. Zachariah Beardsley, 34, of 715 Barclay St. Lot 36 was sentenced on the third-degree felony, although the victim asked for leniency. In her statement, the victim said the incident on Oct. 14 was the culmination of a lot of pain and she had undergone emotional and mental abuse. While s...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Belpre City School Superintendent Jeff Greenley speaks during a Board of Education meeting on Monday evening. (Photo by Tyler Bennett) Harmar Elementary School sits in the shadow of 115 Gilman Ave., in Marietta, which was declared a blight and public nuisance in Washington County Common Pleas Court on Monday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson) Fourth Ward Councilman Geoff Schenkel testifies to the fear residents within his ward live under due to the “neglect” at 115 and 117 Gilman Ave., in Marietta, during a hearing in Washington County Common Plea...

mnewbanks@mariettatimes.com A former Marietta High School teacher convicted in 2016 of sexual battery of a 16-year-old student, was sentenced Monday morning to 18 months in prison after violating conditions of his judicial release. Dennis Riley, 63, last known address of 120 W. Spring St., Marietta, was convicted of the third-degree felony after being charged with three counts of sexual battery in January 2016. Officials at the time said there were reports and evidence provided regarding Riley’s three-month relationship with the girl. Although the girl was not under the age of 16, which is ...

mnewbanks@mariettatimes.com Photo by Michele Newbanks Andrew Strock is handcuffed by a Washington County Sheriff’s deputy after being sentenced to 60 days in jail for operating a vehicle under the influence. A 60-day jail sentence was handed down Tuesday to a Vienna man arrested in 2018 for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Washington County Assistant Prosecutor David Silwani said in September 2018, the Ohio State Highway Patrol was dispatched to a one vehicle accident, where the driver was Andrew Strock, 40, of 5509 Sixth Ave. “When they looked through his criminal hist...