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Drunken Wannabe Arsonist Wags Tongue at the Law

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Amber Legge — and her tongue — do not seem to be taking being arrested very seriously

HUBER HEIGHTS, Ohio — Take your law and shove it.

That’s the attitude Amber Legge had on display when she was arrested in Ohio for allegedly threatening to burn a woman’s house down and driving drunk.

Legge, 32, had gotten into a fight with the owner of a Huber Heights home after going there at 3:15 a.m. Friday to demand money she believed she was owed.

“(The victim) indicated that Legge then returned to her residence…began calling her a ‘dope friend’, threatened to beat her, burn her house down, and contact Children’s Services,” the police report read, according to the Dayton Daily News.

As police arrived at the scene, Legge took off, but was pulled over later when officers determined she was under the influence.

Man Gets 27 Years For Impregnating Twins, 14, and Their 12-Year-Old Sister

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Rapist Arnold Perry abused his friends’ trust by impregnating their three daughters

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — A twisted child rapist was sentenced to 27 years in prison for impregnating a pair of 14-year-old twins and their 12-year-old sister.

Arnold Perry, 34, had been a friend of the girls’ family and would periodically stay at their home when he had nowhere else to go, prosecutors said.

One of the twins had an abortion after her pregnancy was discovered, but the other two victims ended up having their babies because they were too far along when it was discovered they were pregnant, prosecutors said.

“These girls will suffer the rest of their lives because of this,” Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer McLaughlin said, according to the Youngstown Vindicator.

Perry pleaded guilty in November to two counts of first-degree felony rape and a third-degree felony count of sexual battery for the attacks, which took place in 2015 and 2016. He had faced 25 years in jail, but the judge gave him two years above the recommended sentence.

Prosecutors say Perry had been convicted of similar crimes as a juvenile.

 

Facial Tattoos Likely to Be Dead Giveaway for This Fugitive

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Michael Mann’s distinctive facial tattoos definitely make him stand out

CINCINNATI — Well, he shouldn’t be too hard to find.

Police in Cincinnati are looking for a man with rather distinctive tattoos covering his face, including a dollar sign over his left eye.

Michael Mann, 34, is wanted on aggravated burglary and domestic violence after allegedly climbing into an unlocked window of his ex-girlfriend’s house on Jan. 9 and choking and slapping her several times. Cops say the victim has a child with Mann.

Mann is described as 6-foot-3 inches and 185 pounds. Cops say he has a history of domestic violence, aggravated robbery and drug charges.

Dealer Who Declared Himself ‘El Chapo Jr. During Police Standoff Gets 12 Years

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Daniel Jones burned his stash on Facebook Live, boasting ‘No evidence on me buddy!’

DAYTON, Ohio — A man who called himself “El Chapo Jr.” and brazenly boasted that he as the biggest drug dealer in the Dayton area on Facebook Live while holed up in a house surrounded by cops has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison.

Daniel Jones, 29, had engaged in an hours-long standoff with cops in March 2016 at a Harrison Township apartment complex and even tried to burn his stash of three kilos of fentanyl to get rid of the evidence.

But in the meantime, police watched as Jones flashed wads of cash and talked about his drug-dealing prowess while streaming video live on Facebook, even declared, “No evidence on me buddy,” as he burned the drugs, prosecutors said.

Ultimately, SWAT Team officers and federal agents stormed the apartment, arresting Jones and recovered a handgun as well as the remnants of the burnt fentanyl. They also found $3,000 in cash on Jones and more than $100,000 cash throughout the apartment.

He pleaded guilty last April to one count of possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.

Jones has 16 prior felony convictions and is awaiting trial in an assault case and for being found with marijuana in his rectum while in a county jail.

Jones had sought leniency from the judge, saying he took responsibility for what he had done and asking for chance to turn his life around.

“I’m not glorifying or excusing my behavior,” Jones wrote in a letter to the judge. “But I don’t need a decade or two to realize what I did was horribly wrong.”

U.S. District Judge Walter Rice said he while he believed Jones was being sincere, he “totally lacks tools and ability to carry those promises into reality.”

Motorist Critically Hurt as Teens Toss Sandbag Off Highway Overpass

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Teens tossed the heavy sandbag from this overpass

TOLEDO, Ohio — A motorist was critically injured when a sandbag tossed from an overpass by a group of young teens smashed through his windshield and struck him on the head, cops said.

Marquise Byrd, of Warren Michigan, was in the passenger seat of a pal’s car when the sandbag crashed through the windshield late Tuesday, the Toledo police said.

He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition with head injuries, police said.

Pedro Salinas, 13; Sean Carter, 14; Demetrius Wimberly, 14; and William Parker, 14, were arrested and charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and was booked in the Lucas County Juvenile Detention Center.

Authorities said that if Byrd died, the boys would face much steeper charges.

“If that would happen then the state would be bringing forward some sort of homicide charge against all four who were involved,” Lori Olender, deputy prosecutor of the juvenile division, told the Toledo Blaze.

Investigators said they believed the teens had thrown other things at other cars that night but no one else was hurt. Typically, highway overpasses have high fences to prevent objects from being thrown onto the roadway, but the particular overpass is under construction and currently has no fence.

400-Pound Man Charged With Crushing His Autistic Step-Grandson

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Dylan Davis (l) died after 400-pound Donald Martin Crushed Him

MT. ORAB, Ohio — A 400-pound Ohio man has been charged in the death of his autistic step-grandson after pinning the boy down when he started acting up, cops said.

Donald Martin Jr., 58, was charged with reckless homicide in the death of 11-year-old Dylan Martin Davis on the family farm in rural Ohio last Friday, the Brown County Sheriff’s office said.

“It appears that the 11-year-old was deceased as a result of positional asphyxiation or compression,” Sheriff Gordon Ellis told WLWT-TV. “There was some type of altercation between the 11-year-old and his grandmother and the step-grandfather stepped in and restrained the juvenile.”

Prosecutors said the boy was held down for several minutes, after which he became unresponsive.

Police said the boy had had some kind of temper tantrum before the incident, and his father told the station his son had grown more prone to outbursts.

“He was getting older. Sometimes his anger was getting stronger and sometimes he had to be physically restrained,” Sam Davis said.

Davis said his son and Martin had always gotten along, so he was shocked by what had happened.

“I feel sad. I feel angry. I feel confused. I wish it never would have happened,” he said.

 

Martin was released on $100,000 bond.

Thief Drives Off With Utility Vehicle With Worker Dangling From Bucket at Back

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CINCINNATI — A city maintenance worker using a bucket truck to hang Christmas decorations was taken for one hell of a ride when someone stole the truck with him in the bucket.

Cops say Dennis Smith, Jr. hopped behind the wheel of the utility truck Friday and sped off as the worker clung to dear life inside the extendable bucket at the rear.

The worker managed to phone into his office to tell them what was going on and workers there called police.

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“We just got a call from our maintenance worker that he is in our bucket truck on Vine Street and somebody stole the bucket truck,” the caller said, according to WLWT-TV.

“A bucket truck?” the shocked dispatcher responded. “So he’s still with the vehicle? And the vehicle has been taken?”

Cops were soon in hot pursuit, but the thief wouldn’t stop until officers used spiked strips to puncture the vehicle’s tires, forcing it to crash.

Smith was charged with theft and kidnapping. The utility worker was uninjured.

10-Year-Old Boy Steals Car, Leads Cop’s on Three County, 100 Mph Chase

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MILAN, Ohio — He’s gone straight from playing with Hot Wheels to being hell on wheels.

A 10-year-old Ohio boy led cops on an hour-long chase in a car he stole from his mother’s boyfriend at speeds clocking over 100-miles-an hour

And it was the second time in two weeks that he had taken his mother’s car on a joyride which ended after he got three flat tires, police said..

Police say they got a call from the boy’s mother on Thursday morning, saying she was giving chase in another car but that she needed help stopping her son, Cleveland.com reported.

That led to a 45-mile chase along a major interstate through three counties that only ended with a police officer ramming the boy’s vehicle and spinning it around.

At one point, Ohio State Highway Patrol officer pulled up alongside the boy and motioned for him to stop, and he simply shook his head.

Dashboard camera footage showed how the boy later went off the road to avoid spike strips police had put down and then drove on the outside of the guard rail for several minutes.

When cops finally got the boy to stop, they were forced to smash the side window to pull him kicking and screaming from the vehicle. Police say the boy spat at cops as they took him into custody.

When asked why he did it, cops say the boy replied that he was bored.

Bartender Charged in St. Paddy’s Pub Tumble That Left Underage Girl in Coma

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Megan Keefe suffered severe head injuries in fall at Spirits bar in downtown Cleveland

CLEVELAND — An Ohio bartender has been criminally charged or serving drinks on St. Patrick’s Day to an underage girl who later fell from a second-story balcony and suffered severe head injuries.

Authorities say Carisa Buehner, 29, was tending bar at Spirits in downtown Cleveland when 20-year-old Megan Keefe and her friends came in and ordered drinks. Arview of surveillance footage showed that Buehner served Keefe three vodka drinks that day without asking for ID, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Keefe later tumbled headfirst from the bar’s second floor balcony and smashed her head into a granite railing 15 feet below. The fall tore a chunk of granite off the railing and left Keefe with a bleeding on her brain and fractures to her skull, vertebrae and eye socket.

Her family says she remains in a coma and is currently in a long-term care facility. They say the family has already incurred over $1 million in medical bills and expect it will cost over $10 million to care for her for the rest of her life.

Buehner was charged with with selling alcohol to someone under 21 years old, a first-degree misdemeanor.

Keefe’s family has filed a lawsuit against the bar and the state liquor authority is still investigating whether to revoke its liquor license.

Dad Chasing Daughter While Wearing Clown Mask Sparks Neighborhood Panic

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BOARDMAN, Ohio — A man trying to discipline his 6-year-old daughter by chasing her around while wearing a clown mask, sparked a panic is his town, leading a neighbor to fire a shot into the ground, cops said.

Vernon Barrett Jr., donned the mask to chase his 6-year-old daughter around the neighborhood in Boardman, but she grew so terrified that she hopped into a stranger’s car and ran into a stranger’s house, shouting “A clown is trying to get me,” cops said.

The led Dion Santiago to run out of the apartment with a gun and fire a single shot into the ground the frighten the clown away, WKBN-TV reported.

Barrett was hit with child endangerment and inducing panic charges while Santiago was charged with using weapons while drunk, cops said.

He told cops the girl’s mother is in jail for child endangerment after being convicted of breaking four of the child’s ribs.