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Coroner's Office identifies body recovered from Maumee River
The Lucas County Coroner’s office has identified the body that was pulled from the Maumee River Tuesday, near the 2200 block of Front Street. While conducting training exercises in the river, the U.S. Coast Guard recovered the body of Dion Robinson, 29, of the 2400 block of Berdan Avenue. He drowned and his death has been ruled a suicide, the coroner’s office reported Wednesday. He was the individual who was seen in distress in the water on May 8 near the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge, a mile and a half upriver from where the body was found. Around 4:38 p.m. on May 8 a caller told 9-1-1 she had seen someone in the water and they were flailing their arms in apparent distress before disappearing from her sight.
18-year-old WLS board member convicted of drunk driving facing new charges
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A Washington Local School Board member busted for drunk driving in February is facing more legal issues. 18-year-old Brady Hall, who turns 19 later this week, was convicted of driving under the influence in Bowling Green earlier this year. As part of the punishment, his license was suspended but a judge granted him driving privileges for work and school board meetings.
Good Samaritan in boat rescues kayaker who fell into Maumee River
TOLEDO, Ohio — A kayaker was rescued by a good Samaritan in a boat after falling into the Maumee River Sunday evening. According to Toledo police, they responded to 4 Main Street in east Toledo just before 7 p.m. after a 37-year-old fell into the river while in a kayak.
I-TEAM: Rossford police chase leaves bystander with broken neck
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - A high-speed chase in rush-hour traffic ended on I-75 last week when the car Rossford police were chasing slammed into the vehicle of an innocent bystander. “I was terrified. I was scared. I was actually freaking out,” David Downard said. Police body-cam video shows Downard...
Shots fired at south Toledo homes Tuesday
TOLEDO, Ohio — Police are investigating an incident in which two south Toledo homes were struck by gunfire Tuesday night. According to a Toledo police report, officers responded to the 1800 block of Airport Highway after receiving a call regarding shots fired. Police arrived at the location, where they said two homes in the same block had been struck by gunfire.
Jury to decide fate of two charged with killing teens
The aggravated murder case against two men accused of killing two teenaged boys in late 2022 after others lured them to a South Toledo house to confront one boy about a stolen gun was handed to a trial jury Tuesday evening. Defense lawyers’ and prosecutors summations concluded a trial day during which two defense witnesses testified, two others declined on self-incrimination grounds, and a Lucas County Common Pleas judge excluded a fifth that the defense tried to add to the witness list at the last minute. The potential witnesses against Charles Walker, 34, and Brent Kohlhofer, 42, who cited their Fifth Amendment rights were Carrissa Eames and Don Eames, Jr., separately indicted codefendants against whom charges remain pending. In their closing arguments, defense lawyers for both Walker and Corbin Gingrich repeated their introductory assertions that the allegations against their clients were made up by the Eamses and codefendants Gingrich and Cruz Garcia, who accepted plea bargains and turned state’s evidence, to hide their own direct roles in the boys’ deaths.
Woman dies after red-light crash in South Toledo
A South Toledo woman whose vehicle struck another after she ran a red light at Hill Avenue and Byrne Road late Saturday afternoon died that evening at a nearby hospital, authorities said. Daneasha Watson, 31, of the 2300 block of Victory Avenue, was pronounced dead at the University of Toledo Medical Center about three hours after the crash that was reported at 5:28 p.m. Saturday. A Toledo Police Department statement said Ms. Watson entered the intersection with a red light and while an oncoming vehicle driven by Autumn Twining, 19, of Springfield Township was completing a left turn begun before the light changed. Ms. Watson’s vehicle flipped, hit a pole, and landed right-side up, police said. Neither Ms. Twining nor her two teenaged passengers were injured, police said. The police report did not specify the vehicles’ direction of travel.
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