MADISON TOWNSHIP — A house seized after one of the largest drug busts in Richland County history was sold Thursday for $91,414 by county commissioners.
The Wooster Heights residence at 1214 Bechtel Ave. was purchased by Heidi Hahn and Timothy A. Hahn II, according to a resolution approved by commissioners after an executive session to examine several bids for the property.
The property, valued at $50,000 on the Richland County Auditor’s website, was among multiple items seized after Bradley Fisher, 33, was arrested Jan. 30, 2025, in what at the time was the biggest drug bust in METRICH Enforcement Unit history.
County administrator Andrew Keller said the winning bid was a cash offer.
(Below is a PDF with the resolution approved Thursday selling a property at 1214 Bechtel Ave. in Madison Township.)
Fisher was sentenced in November 2025 to 75 years in prison on 18 drug-related charges.
The Richland County Board of Commissioners, in a meeting with county Prosecutor Jodie Schumacher in May, authorized the sale of Fisher’s former house.
Significant amounts of illegal drugs, including fentanyl and cocaine, were seized at the property, along with vehicles and $28,000 in cash, the prosecutor said in May.
Richland County Common Pleas Court Judge Phil Naumoff granted the prosecutor’s forfeiture request for the house on Dec. 17.
“In this instance, the jury did find that the value of the property of Bechtel was not disproportionate to the seriousness of the offense,” Schumacher told commissioners in May.
“There were multiple bricks of cocaine and then clandestine pills of fentanyl located there,” the prosecutor said.
“There was a lot of evidence presented that was also indicative of close connections to cartels, and there was testimony by one of the senior agents that the estimated value of the drugs … the street value … was over $4 million,” Schumacher said.
The property seizure was a clear message to drug dealers seeking to operate in the county, according to the prosecutor.
“We’re going to come after you and we’re going to come after you hard,” Schumacher said. “We’re going to utilize any tool in our tool belt.”
Fisher purchased the property in 2023 for $17,000 and had done substantial upgrades, according to the prosecutor. He is currently in prison at the Noble Correctional Institution in southeast Ohio.
During the meeting in May, Schumacher said state law grants county commissioners the ability to sell such property and divide the proceeds.
In this instance, 60 percent of the sale’s proceeds will go to the METRICH Enforcement Unit and 40 percent to the prosecutor’s office, based on agreements between the prosecutor’s office and local law enforcement agencies.
Commissioners also approved Schumacher’s request to allow Realtor Justin Bigelow and his Dream Huge Realty office to list the property. Bigelow collected the bids and attended the meeting with commissioners on Thursday.
“He had indicated a willingness to be the listing agent and take zero commission on the property or the sale,” Schumacher said in May. “The benefit there is that allows us the exposure of the (multiple listing service through the Mansfield Association of Realtors.)”
