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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Crime-spree suspect gets 25 years in prison
DAYTON — The suspect in a series of major crimes across several jurisdictions during summer 2007 that ended with him leading police on a high-speed chase was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday, Nov. 18.
Anthony Seals, 37, pleaded guilty Monday, Nov. 3, to several charges, including aggravated burglary, robbery, abduction, kidnapping, and grand theft of a motor vehicle. Seals was to go on trial this week before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Gregory F. Singer.
His suspected crimes included:
— July 2, Dayton: Seals’ girlfriend reports he pulled a knife, threatened to kill her.
— July 4, Dayton: Computer stolen, Patterson Park Laundromat. Theft, Circle K on Shroyer. Auto theft, Pheasant Valley Road.
— July 7, Dayton: Breaking and entering, Little Giant Body Shop, car stolen.
— July 9, Dayton: Checks stolen, found deposited to new bank account in Seals’ name.
— July 10, Dayton: Clockwise Clock Shop broken into, three clocks stolen.
— July 12, Dayton: Clockwise Clock Shop break-in, $1,900 antique clock stolen.
— July 15, Huber Heights: Female cab driver abducted at knifepoint.
— July 16, Huber Heights: Two burglaries on Mariner Drive.
— July 16, Huber Heights: Female abducted from home at gunpoint, escaped in Moraine.
— July 16, Dayton: Customer at Circle K on Smithville Road ripped out cash drawer.
— July 17, Riverside: Dayton Wireless robbed at gunpoint, clerk tied up, car stolen.
By mid-July, police in several jurisdictions were looking for him. On July 20, Seals drove past Riverside police Officer James Vance, headed the other way on Woodman Drive near Woodman Park Apartments.
According to police, Seals fled north on Woodman and west onto Burkhardt Road into Dayton, traveling at over 100 mph before crashing into a building at 28 Burkhardt Road and jumping out.
Vance and Dayton Officer Eric Sheldon caught Seals behind 136 Martz Ave., using a Taser on him as he tried to climb a fence.
Ohio Department of Corrections records show Seals was incarcerated at the Dayton Correctional Institute from July 1990 to March 1991 for theft and breaking and entering. He served time for forgery and burglary charges at London Correctional Institution from April 1992 and was released with probation in December 1992.
In May of 1993, Seals went to Madison Correctional for aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery and breaking and entering. He was released on parole in September 2003, but started serving a sentence at Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institution in New York in January 2004 on federal forgery charges dating back to 1990.
Seal’s sentence for the 1990 charges had been suspended but was reinstated for probation violations and subsequent crimes.
He was moved to a halfway house in Cincinnati in November 2004 and released in January 2005.
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By Lou Grieco Staff Writer
COLUMBUS — U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz was given the Honorary Life Fellowship Award from the Ohio State Bar Foundation on Monday, Nov. 17.
Merz, who is the chief magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, was honored because his career exemplifies a lifetime of service to the public with integrity, honor and professionalism, according to the foundation.
Merz has served as the Sixth Circuit Trustee of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association, Chair of the OSBA Judicial Administration Committee, and member of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Rules Advisory Committee. A lifelong resident of Dayton, Judge Merz was awarded the city’s Distinguished Service Award in 1982.
U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice appointed Merz U.S. magistrate on Nov. 21, 1984. Prior to his appointment, Merz, a Harvard Law School graduate, served as a Dayton Municipal Court judge.
Merz serves as the court’s coordinator for death penalty appeals for both Cincinnati and Dayton.
The Ohio State Bar Foundation is a 501(c) public charity that promotes public understanding of the law and improvements in the justice system throughout Ohio.
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