http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ Lou Grieco covers courts for the Dayton Daily News. en-us lgrieco@coxohio.com 2012-02-10T16:55:57-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/02/10/main_mart_slaying_case_ends_wi.html DAYTON — Antonio Wynn, charged with complicity to commit murder in connection with a slaying committed by a childhood friend, was convicted Friday. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Frances E. McGee turned the case over to the jury about 12:10... 17404468@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-02-10T16:55:57-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/02/10/dayton_the_case_against_1.html DAYTON — The case against Antonio Wynn, charged with complicity to commit murder in connection with a slaying committed by a childhood friend, went to the jury Friday. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Frances E. McGee turned the case over... 17404446@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-02-10T11:24:11-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/02/06/former_dayton_probation_office.html DAYTON - A former Dayton Municipal Court probation officer, accused of embezzling more than $90,000 in probationers’ fees that were to go to the city, pleaded guilty Monday to seven felonies. Douglas W. Lowe, 38, was indicted in July on... 17404263@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-02-06T16:46:56-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/02/06/trial_starts_for_man_charged_i.html DAYTON - Both prosecutors and Antonio Wynn’s defense attorney say that Wynn punched Deonta Beans seconds before his death. They disagree that Wynn was acting in concert with George E. Turner, who shot Beans after Wynn hit him. “He sucker-punched... 17404255@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-02-06T15:23:21-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/02/03/dayton_an_indiana_man.html DAYTON — An Indiana man accused of killing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confidential informant was convicted of all charges Friday, including aggravated murder, after nearly two days of jury deliberations. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Frances E. McGee gave... 17404159@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-02-03T15:36:53-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/02/01/dayton_after_more_than.html DAYTON — The case of an Indiana man accused of assassinating a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confidential informant went to the jury Wednesday evening, after more than a week of testimony. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Frances E. McGee gave... 17404058@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-02-01T17:33:14-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/02/01/an_agreed_preliminary_and_perm.html DAYTON — A permanent injunction has been approved against a Centerville businessman and his three companies, all accused of securities fraud by the Ohio Department of Commerce. Both the preliminary and permanent injunctions were approved Tuesday and signed by Montgomery... 17404012@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-02-01T11:25:38-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/30/xenia_man_sent_to_prison_for_c.html DAYTON — A Xenia man whose laptop computer held more than 800 images of child pornography was sentenced Friday to 78 months in federal prison. Kenneth Brewer, 68, pleaded guilty May 9 to one count of child pornography. He was... 17403924@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-30T15:24:51-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/30/dayton_a_man_who_5.html DAYTON — A man who worked as a civilian child care worker for a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base program pleaded guilty Monday to a count of gross sexual imposition of a child under the age of 13. The case was... 17403895@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-30T11:28:36-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/27/moraine_man_convicted_of_killi.html DAYTON — A Moraine man accused of beating his neighbor and friend to death was convicted Friday of murder and carrying a firearm while a fugitive from justice. The jury acquitted Shawn Kortz of the third count, tampering with evidence.... 17403832@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-27T14:55:45-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/27/dayton_three_dayton_women.html DAYTON — Three Dayton women are accused of stealing the identities of more than 30 people, most of them mentally disabled, then filing fraudulent income tax returns claiming about $170,000 in refunds between March 2008 and March 2009, according to... 17403821@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-27T11:22:42-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/26/moraine_fatal_beating_case_goe.html DAYTON - Shawn Kortz told the jury he remembered showing his “man cave” to his neighbor and friend, Michael Hollon. He also remembered staring at himself in the bathroom mirror, shirtless and wondering why he was covered with blood. What... 17403804@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-26T18:47:48-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/25/dea_informant_lived_final_days.html DAYTON - Days before his death, confidential informant Anthony Hurd called his contact with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration task force and said “they know.” “He was a man of very few words,” said Indianapolis Detective Sgt. Gary Maxey. “He... 17403737@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-25T16:57:49-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/24/dayton_a_moraine_man.html DAYTON — A Moraine man accused of strangling his friend and neighbor to death claims not to remember what happened, his attorney told a jury Tuesday morning. James Staton said Michael Hollon died as a result of a drunken brawl... 17403628@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-24T09:55:00-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2012/01/23/dayton_anthony_hurd_an.html DAYTON — Anthony Hurd, an Indiana man gunned down at an Englewood gas station in 2007, was killed because he was a confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, an assistant Montgomery County prosecutor said Monday. “To silence him,”... 17403580@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/ 2012-01-23T16:25:39-05:00 lgrieco@coxohio.com