CRIME & SAFETY
Crash with injuries reported on Girard Street in Florence
FLORENCE, Ky. — A crash with injuries was reported in the area of Girard Street and Burlington Pike in Florence. Police and medics have been dispatched to the scene. Click the video player above to watch other headlines from WLWT News 5. This story was curated by Hearst's WLWT...
Video shows man kicking a NKY deputy and taking out his body camera video
BURLINGTON, Ky. (WXIX) - A man, who was accused of reaching for a Boone County Sheriff’s deputy’s gun during an incident in June 2023, is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. Tristen Beam is accused of punching one deputy and trying to reach for his gun while...
NKY police officer arrested for strangulation, dating violence
DAYTON, Ky. (WXIX) - The Boone County Sheriff’s Department said an officer with the City of Dayton Police Department is accused of strangulation, dating violence and criminal mischief. Deputies say 32-year-old Ryan Fern is the officer being accused of committing these crimes. According to deputies, the victim told them...
'I'm nobody's fool.' Felony Lane Gang member gets prison for crime spree ending in NKY
COVINGTON, Ky. – A member of the Felony Lane Gang will spend more than three years in prison for serving as the face of a multistate crime spree that ended at a bank in Northern Kentucky. John Sapienza, 60, was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Covington to...
Covington police ask for help locating missing 32-year-old woman
COVINGTON, Ky. (WXIX) - The Covington Police Department is asking the public for help locating a woman who went missing on Tuesday. Police say she is reported as critically missing and is a danger to herself. Laura Difrank, 32, was last heard from at around 9 p.m. yesterday. Police believe...
Prosecutors take death off table for man accused of killing ex-girlfriend in front of kids
A Crestview Hills man accused of gunning down his ex-girlfriend in front of their two children is no longer facing the possibility of death row. Prosecutors filed notice in Boone County Circuit Court on Wednesday afternoon that they are dropping the death penalty in the case against John Gentry. ...
Police: Man bought 350 pounds of nails, scattered them on road in three towns
A man is facing charges for buying large quantities of nails and scattering them on roads north of Cincinnati, but it's possible he's been at it for nearly a year according to court records.
Law enforcement working to identify man’s body found in Indiana
AURORA, Ind. (WXIX) - Indiana law enforcement is working to identify a body found Sunday in Aurora near a riverbank, according to Prosecutor Lynn Deddens. Deddens says the man’s body was found a little after 7:15 p.m. An autopsy was performed at the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office on Monday....
‘I’m not just going to stand there’, Cincinnati man reflects on saving teen girls
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Michael Lesan loves relaxing on Edisto Beach in South Carolina. It’s a trip his family has enjoyed for the last three years. One of the highlights of his trips to the ocean has been sitting on the beach while his daughters build sandcastles. In June 2023,...
Northern Kentucky man gets prison for being 'primary source' of Glock switches to gangs
A Northern Kentucky man, who prosecutors say was a major supplier locally of devices that transform semi-automatic handguns into fully automatic ones, will spend more than a decade in federal prison. Demarco Sturgeon, 23, was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Covington to nearly 11 years in prison for...
2 men arrested in connection to shooting of 19-year-old woman
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Two men have been arrested in connection to the shooting that injured a 19-year-old woman on Sunday in West Price Hill. Masjawm Weathers, 24, and Raul Vega, 21, were arrested and accused of firing multiple shots at a car on St. Lawrence Avenue on Sunday, hitting two people inside.
Local man convicted of robbing home, beating homeowner for hours sentenced to prison
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A local man convicted of beating and terrorizing a homeowner during a robbery has been sentenced to prison. Judge F. Aaron Negangard on Friday sentenced Marvin Moyers, Jr. to 100 years at the Indiana Department of Corrections. A jury in Ohio County, Ind., in January, found Moyers,...
Report of shots fired on Clifford Avenue in Covington
COVINGTON, Ky. — Report of shots fired on Clifford Avenue in Covington. Covington Police are responding to the scene. Click the video player above to watch other headlines from WLWT News 5. This story was curated by Hearst's WLWT Alert Desk. Sharing brings us closer together. If this story...
Trucker pleads 'not guilty' to charges from deadly crash on I-80 in Austintown
A New Jersey trucker has pleaded “not guilty” to a charge filed after State Troopers say his tractor-trailer crossed into the oncoming lanes of Interstate 80 in Austintown, plowing into a pickup truck, killing the driver. Fifty-three-year-old Davit Pluidze appeared before a judge in Austintown Monday to answer...
Police: Man in critical condition after he was shot in his car in Avondale
At the scene, more than 10 evidence markers sat in the street near a white vehicle with a shattered rear window. Police said the man who was shot was in the car when the shooting happened.
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