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WHIZ News Local man sentenced in child rape case ZANESVILLE, Ohio–A local man who was sentenced last month in a child assault case was back in the courtroom Wednesday in a separate case involving the rape of a child. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, 27-year- old Christian Harmon of Nashport appeared in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court where he pleaded guilty to multiple charges including Rape and Pandering Obscenity Involving a Minor. Judge Mark Fleegle sentenced Harmon to a maximum of 51 1/2 years to life in prison. That sentence was combined with the prison time he received in t...

Jarrell McCrae gets 4 years in prison after a series of shootings ZANESVILLE - An ongoing feud for the past several years between two men who've chosen homes and businesses in Zanesville as their battleground has been put on pause while one rival heads to prison for four years - a sentence Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor John Litle does not find justifiable for the havoc caused in the community. "As a person who has spent four years trying to put a case on Jarrell McCrae, obviously a four-year sentence is very disappointing," Litle said.  Prosecutors felt a seven-year sentence was mo...

Court Roundup: Muskingum County Common Pleas Court Pleas Tyler Cockrell, 27, of Waco, Texas, pleaded guilty to one fifth-degree felony count of theft and six fifth-degree felony counts of possession of criminal tools. Feb. 4 Pleas Christopher Hunt, 41, of White Cottage, pleaded guilty to one fourth-degree felony count of trafficking marijuana with a forfeiture specification. Jarrell McCrae, 32, of Zanesville, pleaded guilty to one third-degree felony count of attempted discharging a firearm into a habitation with a firearm specification and one third-degree felony count of having a weapon whi...

Charles Davis draws 4-year sentence for assault, kidnapping ZANESVILLE - A Zanesville man who became enraged after finding an explicit video online of what he believed to be the woman he was in a relationship with at the time was sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting and kidnapping her.  The victim said Davis wrongfully accused her of being in the video when she was attacked. Charles Davis, 46, was arrested in January after showing the victim the video and then taking hair clippers to her head. According to Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor Gerald Anderson, Davis shaved part...

Judge gives Zanesville woman max sentence for torturing young children Zanesville Times Recorder ZANESVILLE - The primary caretaker of two Zanesville children who endured months of torture at the hands of their guardians was sentenced to 54 to 59-and-a-half years in prison Monday.  While she is not accused of perpetrating some of the most violent acts inflicted on the young boy and girl, Priscilla Meachem was found guilty of participating in their abuse.  She and her boyfriend, Elijah Waltz, previously pleaded guilty to two first-degree felony counts of kidnapping, two second-degree felon...