A California man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Columbus Tuesday to three months in prison for committing crimes related to supplying the military with faulty parts.
On July 26, Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Stephen McIntosh sentenced Mamadou Diallo, 43, of Columbus to a term of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 27 years for the 2021 murder of his wife.
A 37-year-old Columbus man was sentenced recently to 540 months (45 years) in prison for coercing at least three minor victims to engage in sexually explicit activity for the purpose of producing images and videos of the acts. Two of those victims were offered cash and gifts to entice them into performing and/or engaging in sexually explicit acts with him.
Two Central Ohio men have been arrested and charged federally for their alleged roles in robberies that resulted in the July 6 shooting of a Columbus police officer.
First lady Jill Biden visited Columbus Wednesday, touting workforce efforts for the Intel fabrication facility going up in Licking County. Columbus will serve as one of five regional workforce hubs meant to train employees for in-demand jobs. The Biden administration has also tapped Phoenix, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Augusta as part of the effort.
After pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges, Clyde Littlefield, 23, was sentenced by Judge Kimberly Cocroft recently in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to the maximum sentence of 19 years and two months, up to 24 years and eight months, in prison.
A federal jury in Columbus convicted an Ohio doctor Thursday for illegally prescribing buprenorphine and other controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.
On June 13, Marcus Jaylyn Kegg, 27, of Columbus, appeared before Judge Patrick J. Lang for sentencing after being found guilty June 1, by an Athens County jury, of rape, a felony of the first degree.
A 29-year-old drug dealer from Columbus who brought his operation to Zanesville received a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison recently. The man’s sentence will be served consecutively to more than four mandatory consecutive years for violating his post-release control.
A Columbus children’s hospital allegedly failed to protect employees — including nurses and mental health professionals — from patients whose bites, kicks, punches and other assaults caused serious injuries, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Carl Aveni recently sentenced Christopher Payne, 27, of Columbus, to a life sentence of no less than 40 years for a 2020 drive-by shooting that killed the unborn child of a 15-year-old girl who was shot in the incident.
Two men were sentenced in federal court recently to crimes related to a scheme to attack power grids in the United States in furtherance white supremacy.