MANSFIELD — A former Mansfield Choice Academies teacher who was sexually involved with a 16-year-old male student was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese on Monday. Noelle Devlin pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery and three counts of child endangering on March 16. As part of […]
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Former Mansfield policeman sentenced to 12.5 years in prison
MANSFIELD — Former Mansfield police officer Michael Garn was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison Tuesday afternoon by Richland County Common Pleas Court judge Brent Robinson. Garn, who worked for 16 years as a police officer in Ashland and Richland counties, was found guilty by a jury of 10 men and two women on 25 […]
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Garn guilty on 25 counts, including sexual battery and menacing by stalking
MANSFIELD — A jury found suspended Mansfield Police officer Mike Garn guilty of sexual battery, menacing by stalking, tampering with evidence, 10 counts of dereliction of duty and 12 counts of misuse of a law enforcement computer. The 10-man, two-woman jury deliberated more than 17 hours over the course of four days before the verdicts […]
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Former GM property earns EPA cleanup certification
ONATARIO — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has issued a Covenant Not to Sue to RACER Trust for the former GM Mansfield/Ontario Stamping Plant Property in Ontario, certifying the completion of environmental cleanup at the property. “Our environmental team has worked very hard to achieve this milestone,” said Elliott P. Laws, of EPLET, LLC, Administrative […]
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Suspect in custody after standoff at Satinwood Dr.
MANSFIELD (UPDATE 3:45 p.m.) — A 911 call for an assault with a deadly weapon resulted in an hour-long standoff and resolved with a 39-year old man in custody Wednesday morning. Maj. Joe Masi, of the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, said a man was arrested at 1933 Satinwood Drive after attacking his mother with a […]
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Mansfield police help save a life after suicidal threat
MANSFIELD (UPDATE 9 a.m.) — Mansfield police helped save a life on Monday night. A young man who authorities say barricaded himself inside his residence and threatened suicide in the North Brookwood Way apartments was finally taken to the hospital after peacefully surrendering around 11 p.m. According to Mansfield Chief of Police Ken Coontz, officers […]
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16-year-old student arrested in Madison bomb threat
MANSFIELD, Ohio – UPDATED – A 16-year-old female student was arrested on Tuesday in connection to a bomb threat that resulted in the evacuation of Madison Comprehensive High School. According to Superintendent Lee Kaple, at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning a teacher reported receiving a note that was passed under their door. The note […]