A Marine, Cpl. Joshua Hartzell (22), from Hamilton and a 2006 graduate of Ross High School was found dead in North Carolina on Friday, Nov. 6, a victim of an apparent homicide.
View the 6 people arrested in a prostitution sting conducted by the Hamilton Police Departments vice squad on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009.
Dr. Mark Blankenburg is facing trial in Butler County Common Pleas Court on more than 40 felony charges.
The bodies of a man and woman found shot to death in the parking lot of Jellybean Junction daycare facility in Fairfield had gunshot wounds to the head. The bodies were discovered by a lawncare service employee in a Jeep Cherokee at Mack and Winton Roads around 9:15 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26 -- three hours after the daycare center opened.
Raymond Tanner, who admitted to decapitating his wife in 1990 but was found not guilty by reason of insanity, appears in court Friday, Setp. 25. A judge ruled that he must remain under court supervision.
Amber Robinson, 15, was killed during a large fight in West Chester, Thursday, Sept. 10. Khrendon Gray, was been charged in her death and a $1 million bond set.
Accused bathtub killer Ryan Widmer was released from jail today, Sept. 4, after posting a $400,000 bond and a day after an appeals court ruled he deserved a new trial.
The Butler County Sheriff's department narcotics unit in conjunction the Clermont County Sheriff's department arrested three suspects Tuesday, September 1, 2009, in the biggest heroin bust in Butler County history. The arrest confiscated around $200,000 worth of heroin, $66,000 in cash and 2 hand guns.
Fairfield undercover agents assisted the Hamilton Police Vice Section in making six arrests as part of a prostitution sting on the East Side, according to Hamilton police spokesman Rich Burkhardt.
Butler County Sheriffs deputies posing as a 14-year-old girl, collected enough evidence to arrest six area men for allegedly showing up to meet a minor for sex. The arrests were made from March 24, 2009 to July 9, 2009.
The Butler County Sheriff's Office will be auctioning off several cars seized by drug officers. The cars were on display Tuesday June 30, 2009, during a press conference at the Butler County Engineer's office.
Two masked men barged into a Hamilton car dealership Wednesday morning, June 10, held a gun to the heads of customers and sales people before apparently shooting the owner.
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones moved inmates to the county jail on Court Street from the Resolutions jail, in Hamilton, Thursday, June 4, 2009. Jones says the move could save the county "hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Undercover officers arrested several individuals, including two Hamilton residents, during an undercover prostitution sting at a hotel in Cincinnati Thursday, May 28, 2009.
Booking photos of persons currently held in the Butler County Jail. Updated every hour.
Former NBA player and University of Cincinnati center Corie Blount was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday, May 13, 2009 on drug possession charges.
An array of charges, mostly drug-related, were filed against 16 people arrested in early-morning raids in Oxford Wednesday, April 29.
A candlelight vigil is held for Ryan Widmer at Cincinnati Printers in Fairfield on Thursday, April 23, 2009. Widmer is currently in the Warren Correctional Institution serving his sentence in the murder of his wife, Sarah. A judge will consider if juror misconduct took place, leading to the conviction.
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