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August 2008
Women behave badly at county fair
Evidently, not everyone can have fun at the Montgomery County Fair.
Dayton police responded to the fairgrounds at about 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30, to find a large group of young women fighting.
A girl said she was trying to get on the fair ride Pharaohs Fury when a “large woman,” later identified as Yazmine Pierce, 18, beat her up, according to a police report.
Witnesses said Pierce approached the victim, punched her in the back of the head, pulled her hair and then kicked her in the stomach as she lay on the ground.
Many members of the group, which consisted of about 40 women according to police report, were then kicked out of the fair.
Police later located Pierce and arrested her on assault charges.
But that wasn’t the end of it.
The group of women reconvened outside the fairgrounds near Miami Valley Hospital and began fighting again in the street, the report stated.
More officers arrived on the scene and split the group up, telling the women to go home. Officers had to threaten one girl with a Taser after she allegedly cussed at them and refused to leave.
The juvenile was later arrested for disorderly conduct.
But wait, there’s more.
As the group started to disperse Jaron Hawkins, 18, allegedly stood in the 900 block of South Main Street and threatened to beat up one of the girls in the group.
Police arrested him for disorderly conduct after he allegedly lunged at the girl and refused numerous requests by police to leave the area, according to the police report.
No one was seriously injured during the disturbance.
TweetWeekend incidents might have led to man killing his wife
DAYTON - Michael Hild might have killed his wife because he feared he was about to go back to prison for violating terms of his probation, according to police reports.
Angela Hild called 911 at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16, and said her husband was banging on her front door at 1957 Tuttle Ave.
According to the 911 audio, Angela Hild said Michael Hild was out front with other people and threatening her and their 5-year-old child. She said he was on drugs and she feared for her life.
She then broke down and cried.
Officers arrived a few minutes later to find Angela Hild still crying, but Michael Hild had already left. She said Michael Hild was “threatening to kill her” and the couple’s 5-year-old son, according to a police report.
Michael Hild, 43, told his wife “I have nothing to live for,” the report said.
She also told police she saw her husband carrying jewelry and electronics into her house that day, according to a police report.
She told officers she overheard Michael Hild, who was on parole after being released from prison on July 18, telling someone on the phone that he had burglarized a house in a rural part of Bellbrook, according to the report.
As officers were speaking to Angela Hild, Michael Hild called. Angela put her cell phone in speaker mode and officers heard Michael Hild say “You didn’t give them the stuff did you? Please tell me you didn’t give them the stuff,” according to the report.
Angela Hild gave officers two bracelets, a necklace and a watch that Michael Hild had brought to the house.
Angela Hild told police her husband had a prosthetic leg — stemming from a gunfight with Michigan police years ago — that he uses to hide guns.
Angela Hild, 37, said she wanted to press domestic violence charges against her husband and was ordered into the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s office on Monday. There, she filed for a temporary protection order, according to Sgt. Tom Flanders.
On Thursday, Aug. 21, Angela and Michael Hild dropped their 5-year-old son off at a Riverside elementary school, Flanders said.
Angela Hild has not been seen or heard from since.
Police said they are now certain she is dead after interviewing friends and family members of the couple.
Investigators believe Michael Hild might have wrapped his wife’s body in a black tarp and dumped her somewhere.
The search for her body became more difficult on Saturday, Aug. 23, when Michael Hild was shot and killed in a gunfight with Melbourne, Fla., police.
Police believe Angela’s body could be anywhere between Dayton and the Atlantic Ocean coast of Florida.
Anyone with information is urged to call 333-COPS.
TweetDead woman might be wrapped in tarp
DAYTON - Police are now certain that Michael Hild murdered his 37-year-old wife sometime last week.
Detectives are pumping family and friends who last spoke with the Hilds for information, and the only thing police are saying on the record is that a black tarp might be involved.
At a press conference Tuesday, Aug. 26, Special Victims Unit Sgt. Tom Flanders made a vague statement that if anyone saw a car or something wrapped in a black tarp to call police immediately.
Flanders said evidence suggests Angela Hild was not killed in her car, which police recovered Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Woodman Park apartment complex near Woodman Drive and U.S. 35 after talking with friends and family of the Hilds.
Rust on the car’s disc brakes and debris around the car indicate the car was in the parking lot for several days, Flanders said.
There was no black tarp found in the Geo or the Chevy Impala that Michael Hild was driving before he was shot in Melbourne, Fla., by police during a gunfight.
Investigators said they now believe Angela Hild’s body could be wrapped in the tarp. They still have no clue where her body is, but are hopeful they will track it down, Lt. John Huber said.
Angela Hild was reported missing Aug. 21 after she failed to pick up her 5-year-old son from school. She has not been seen or heard from since.
TweetMan’s best friend caught up in crime
There were a lot of interesting moments at the drug raid of a house at 1931 Rugby Road Wednesday afternoon.
After ATF agents and Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies were done taking the people, drugs, guns and money out the house they were trying to protect a little brown dog that ran out of the house from getting run over.
A few minutes later a woman walked up and asked to speak to police.
She said she lives up the street and a few days ago her dog was stolen. She described it as a little brown mutt with white on its back.
You got it. It was her dog.
Only problem is one of the men who was detained and then released said the dog was his and took off with the brown K-9 on a chain.
Just then the dog came running back, dragging the chain while the man who was just detained limped behind.
ATF agents wouldn’t let the guy have the dog back, saying a woman said it was her dog.
The man said it wasn’t his dog, but still wanted it. He decided not to press his luck with agents and left without the dog.
Agents were waiting for the woman, who left for her nursing job, to return and claim the dog.
TweetPolice: Search for missing mother has turned to recovery
Dayton police detectives believe there is slim hope that Angela Hild, 37, who has been missing since Thursday, is still alive.
They are now calling the search for the mother of a 5-year-old son a “recovery” effort.
The grim prognosis for her well-being comes after the extraordinary events over the weekend when her husband, Michael Hild, shot at police in Melbourne, Fla., and was then killed when officers returned fire on Saturday, Aug. 23.
Dayton police believe Michael Hild, 43, abducted Angela and then harmed her. They fear she is already dead.
Sgt. Tom Flanders said Tuesday her case has turned from a missing person to an abducted person.
“We certainly fear for her well-being,” he said.
Flanders said Michael Hild is a violent man and was known to carry guns in his prosthetic leg that he lost in a gunfight with Michigan police years ago.
He was shot again Saturday after he rear-ended another vehicle and drove away in the same Chevrolet Impala he was seen driving in the Dayton area.
Officers spotted the vehicle with Michigan tags Hild stole in Kentucky and pulled him over.
But Hild got out and ran while shooting at the officers, according to Melbourne police.
Dayton police announced Friday they were looking for Hild in connection with the disappearance of Angela Hild after she obtained a temporary protection order on Sunday, Aug. 17.
They have no idea why or how Hild ended up in Melbourne, Fla., or the path he took to get there.
But it certainly made the search for Angela Hild that much more difficult. Michael Hild had been making threats on his wife’s life shortly before she disappeared, Flanders said.
The two have been married since 2001, though Montgomery County court records show she filed for divorce in September 2004, but dismissed the case in February 2005.Angela
Michael Hild was in prison from May 1985 to April 1986 on convictions for receiving stolen property in Greene County and burglary in Montgomery County, according to Ohio prison records.
He returned to prison in December 1992 on aggravated burglary and burglary charges and was paroled Aug. 22, 2001.
TweetVacant homes becoming a real crime issue
(Vacant homes like these in the 500 block of Oxford Avenue, the site of a fatal shooting early Monday morning, are becoming more abundant across the city and are contributing to recent crimes. Staff photo by Lisa Powell.)
I am a big fan of the HBO series The Wire. If any of you have watched it, I think it is as good as other HBO ventures like Sopranos and Deadwood.
It is based in Baltimore and highlights inner-city crime and the struggles and triumphs of stopping it. It is the most realistic portrayal of urban crime and the people who fight it I’ve seen anywhere.
In one season, the plot centers around gang members involved in drug trafficking using vacant houses to “hide evidence.” More precisely, they put dead bodies in the shuttered buildings.
It seems more often when I cover a violent crime, the scene is surrounded with vacant homes. It seems that the criminals are starting use them as a tool.
Remember two weeks ago when a police officer stumbled onto three men carrying a bound and gagged man into a vacant home on Redfern? There was a guy in the basement with a semiautomatic handgun waiting for them.
That’s scary stuff.
Then comes the shooting Monday morning, Aug. 25, on Oxford Ave. The 500 block of Oxford is littered with vacant houses. I didn’t take an official count, but along that stretch of Oxford, there might be more vacant homes than those that are legally inhabited.
I suspect with the continuing decline of the housing market, coupled with the city’s bleak economic outlook (highlighted by Forbes Magazine) that things aren’t going to get much better anytime soon.
Are you noticing the increase in boarded-up vacant home across the city?
TweetHarrison Twp. Fire Chief lied about firefighter having sex while on duty
(Harrison Twp. Fire Chief Mark Lynch was reprimanded for lying to township officials about an incident involving a firefighter having sex while on duty. Staff photo by Chris Stewart.)
HARRISON Twp. — A Montgomery County Sheriff’s investigation found that Harrison Twp. Fire Chief Mark Lynch lied about and tried to cover up incidents involving a firefighter that had sex while on duty in the fire house while other firefighters watched.
According to a report dated May 15, sheriff’s investigators said Lynch lied to Harrison Twp. administrator Randy Brooks when asked if he knew anything about firefighter Brian L. Scott having sex with a woman in front of other firefighters while on duty some time in 2006.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Worley wrote in his report:
“Chief Lynch admitted he should have documented the incident and informed then Fire Chief Casey of the incident. Furthermore, Chief Lynch admitted he was untruthful and insubordinate when Mr. Brooks questioned him on Monday, March 31, about the authenticity of the allegations that Firefighters Scott had intercourse while on-duty while others watched.”
Lynch told sheriff’s investigators that during some night in 2006 when he was Chief Battalion, he heard some “giggling” coming from the bunkroom of the fire station at 2400 Turner Road and opened the door to find Scott and a woman nude and two other firefighters watching.
Lynch never told township officials about it, but said he did talk to the parties involved and warned them not to let it happen again, according to the sheriff’s investigation.
The incident resurfaced this year after Scott was being considered for a full-time job and rumors of his actions started circulating, according to the report.
That’s when Brooks questioned Lynch.
Scott later resigned in early April, before the sheriff department’s investigation really got going. He did not give a reason for resigning after five years of service.
Lynch was suspended 20 days without pay for lying to Brooks but has since returned to his position as chief.
Do you think Lynch’s punishment was fair?
TweetDPD tells officers to cut back on fuel use
Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl issued an executive order last week telling officers they must limit their vehicle use after he looked at the department’s July fuel report and saw gas use was up 20 percent over a year ago this time.
Couple that with the huge spike in the cost of gas, which was about $2.80 a gallon last year at this time, and the city’s fuel budget is taking quite a hit this year. But remember, the city gets gas 40 to 50 cents cheaper a gallon because it is bought in bulk and is not taxed.
Biehl issued a “Level II” order, which rescinded the “Level I” order that most officers could drive within a certain area of the city limits. Now, some officers can only drive their vehicle to and from their homes when not on patrol, Biehl said.
That goes for some detectives, too.
The order isn’t unprecedented — just last month, Interim Dayton Fire Chief Herbert Redden announced his department is revamping decades-old emergency response protocol in an effort to save on fuel costs.
Redden is even considering fining businesses and residences that routinely have false alarms.
But police officers were pretty upset about last week’s order, judging by radio traffic.
No one will say it on the record, but many officers wonder why there is an order to limit on-the-street vehicles, while the DPD’s brass drive large SUVs.
Biehl said he understands that argument, but said that the city is already locked into using the SUVs and getting rid of them is not worth it. He also said, the SUV’s four-wheel capabilities are very useful during the winter months.
Police union president Randy Beane said he understands why the order is necessary, but said maybe more fuel-efficient vehicles can be utilized by the department’s brass.
Tell us what you think.
TweetGrand jury to rule on Labensky shooting soon
The investigation into the fatal shooting of Lary Labensky, 44, of Kettering, is expected to be presented before a grand jury at the beginning of September, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.
Labensky (pictured) was shot by officer Christopher Cornwell on May 6 after he fled from cops who allegedly suspected the stolen car he was driving was involved in a robbery.
It was the first of four officer-involved shootings the Dayton police have been apart of this summer.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office conducted the investigation and since Cornwell is back to work it is expected there will be no charges filed against the officer.
The following officer-involved shooting are still under investigations and have yet to be slated for the grand jury:
— May 15, 2008: Derrick Jordan, 22, of Dayton was fatally shot by an officer after the driver of the car Jordan was in struck two police officers during a drug surveillance operation at the Econo Lodge, 2140 Edwin C. Moses Blvd.
— May 23, 2008: Alexander Muela, 35, of Dayton was shot and wounded by two officers after pointing a shotgun at the officers and refusing to drop it.
— July 19, 2008: Ricky Moore, 35, of Dayton was shot to death during a struggle with Dayton police officer on W. Parkwood Ave. That officer, in his first year of duty, has since been fired for unrelated incidents.
TweetProsecutor’s office hands out ‘wish list’ in beating death
Remember James J. Weddington?
He was the man beaten to death by his friend, Walter D. Delph, who has yet to be charged with anything.
Why? No one really knows.
But read this and that should give you some idea of where the case stands.
After the Dayton Daily News published the piece in mid July, Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias Heck said his office was revisiting the decision whether to charge Delph, who admitted to police that the two men got into a fight that night.
Since then the prosecutor’s office has given the Dayton police department a “wish list” as homicide detectives call it. Basically, Heck is asking detectives to do more investigating.
One thing they are asking detectives is to go to the Woodman Drive Flea Market and talk to the people the two men hung out with.
Isn’t that something that should already have been done before prosecutors made the decision to charge Delph or to let him go?
And go he has. Delph, who detectives describe as a “dark” person, has since left the area and his parents were seen moving stuff out of his apartment shortly after Weddington was beaten to death.
And while prosecutors are asking detectives to hand them an airtight conviction, Weddington’s elderly mother, Emma Lou sits in her now empty house waiting for the phone to ring.
Her only wish is that when it rings, someone tells her they are going to put the man who murdered her son on trial.
TweetFirefighters out Tuesday with Habitat for Humanity
Dayton firefighters will be donating their own time for the next three days building four houses in a first-time partnership with Habitat for Humanity.
Special events coordinator Brandon Collins said union members requested he contact Habitat and ask what they could do.
Firefighters will be on the west side at 1222 Clement Ave. starting Tuesday, Aug. 19 pounding nails and trying to stay cool in the heat that has returned to the Miami Valley.
Collins said he expects 30 to 40 firefighters on site during that time period.
“We know it is a fire-stricken area and we wanted to help out,” Collins said.
TweetCity fire, police departments want more minority candidates
Following a directive from city commissioners, the Dayton fire and police departments are looking to hire minority officers and firefighters for the next upcoming testing period in January.
And to do that, the city is easing its requirements for those who wish to serve.
Interim fire Chief Herbert Redden said his department is in desperate need of diversity. As of June, of the close to 400 fire and medic workers, 10 percent are female, 6 percent are black and 2 percent are listed in the “other” minority color.
To get more recruits the city is not requiring prior firefighting or EMT certification for those that wish to take the test in January, Redden said. Before, you had to be a professional firefighter or EMT just to take the test.
“This is going to be more of an entry-level thing,” Redden said. “By doing that we hope to draw a larger pool of candidates.”
The police department is doing the same thing, but the department’s diversity numbers have not yet been made available.
“We are looking at employees of companies who are downsizing or moving out that are getting left behind,” Redden said. “We have also contacted the NAACP and other community groups and asked them to participate in the process.”
Officials have also traveled to Columbus, Cincinnati and points in between looking for candidates, Redden said.
For those wanting to test, a date has yet to be set, but will be sometime in January, Redden said. You can call the city at (937) 333-3616 for more details.
TweetMembers of Diamond Cut group indicted
DAYTON - Thirteen men who Dayton police said are members of the Diamond Cut gang were indicted on 49 federal felony counts ranging from drug trafficking to using minors in drug operations on Thursday, Aug. 14.
Dayton police, Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies and U.S. Marshals rounded up 13 men on Aug. 5 who were suspected in a drug-trafficking ring in an investigation coordinated by the FBI.
The sting was part of a Dayton Safe Streets Task Force investigation, which included the execution of 10 search warrants at homes in Dayton, Trotwood, Clayton, Harrison Township and Kettering and the seizure of ten vehicles.
“Illegal drug trafficking and gun crimes are ruinous to our communities,” said Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. “This operation is a joint effort among multiple law enforcement agencies to make our streets safer.”
Those charged in the indictment are:
— Benjamin “Ben” or “Man” Vaughn, 21, of Clayton: Ten counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, gun crimes and drug trafficking crimes.
— Jerome “Pooh” Hill, 23, of Huber Heights: Nine counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, gun crimes and drug trafficking crimes.
— Kenneth “K-Money” Vaughn, 23, of Atlanta: Eight counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, and gun crimes.
— Joseph F. “Fred” Smith, 18, of Dayton: Nine counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, drug possession and gun crimes.
— Mark “Jason” Adams, 22, of Clayton and Harrison Township: Six counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, gun crimes and drug trafficking crimes.
— Reginald “Reggie” Pugh, 20, of Dayton: Nine counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, gun crimes and drug trafficking crimes;
— Gregory “Marco” Siler, 22, of Dayton: Ten counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, gun crimes and drug trafficking;
— Bryan “Stinker” Johnson, 21, of Clayton: Eleven counts and charged with conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, threatening a federal officer, gun crimes and drug trafficking.
— Craig Sumerlin, 21, of Kettering: Eight counts including use of minors in drug operations, gun crimes and drug trafficking.
— Chris Hill, 31, of Dayton: Six counts including use of minors in drug operations, gun crimes and drug trafficking.
— Jayson Jones, 22, of Harrison Township: Four counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, and gun crimes.
— Talbert Grooms, 24, of Trotwood: Five counts including conspiracy, use of minors in drug operations, and gun crimes.
— Ronald Werts, 51, of Miamisburg: Four counts including conspiracy and drug trafficking crimes.
All the men are charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, which carries a minimum sentence of ten years imprisonment up to life. Gun charge punishments are at least five years imprisonment consecutive to time served.
Charges for use of minors in drug operations carry a punishment of at least one year and up to 80 years imprisonment.
TweetRelative of kidnapping victim freaks out in front of police
It was a wild afternoon in Dayton on Wednesday, Aug. 13.
A Dayton police officer stopped what could have been an execution-style murder because he was at the right place at the right time.
Just as that was happening a man in a garage just up the street on Salem Avenue — two blocks from Good Samaritan Hospital — was gunned down while in a garage.
After all the TV news crews had left, along with a majority of responding officers, a man came running to the scene on Salem Avenue screaming “Has my brother been shot? That’s my brother man.”
Lt. Robert Chabali asked who his brother was and the man responded with an answer that made Chabali’s eyes widen.
He pulled the man aside, made a call to a fellow lieutenant and turned to the man and said his brother is fine.
That was the good news.
The bad news?
The emotional brother was at the wrong crime scene. Chabali had to tell him it was his brother who was pistol whipped and kidnapped by a group of men who might have been planning to kill him.
“Oh my God! Oh my God!,” the brother screamed. “Who did it? Who did it? Did they shoot him?
Chabali told him he had to run down a few blocks and ask detectives there.
TweetReporting of teenage shooter irresponsible
A story titled “13-year-old boy charged with killing friend” that appeared Tuesday, Aug. 12, on a local television station jumped the gun and has crossed the boundaries of ethical journalism.
The story is a follow-up to the shooting death of 15-year-old Dashawn L. Smith Jr. while he stood on the front porch of a friend’s house at 715 Tyson Ave. on Monday afternoon.
The 13-year-old shooter appeared in court Tuesday on a detention hearing and a few local television stations had reporters in the courtroom. I did not attend. I will tell you why in a second.
In its report the television station gives the name of the 13-year-old shooter and says that he is “charged with murder.”
Both items of news are wrong for different reasons and shows a blatant disregard for the rules of journalism in an effort to get it out there first to not get beat.
The 13-year-old boy has not been charged with murder. No formal charges have been approved by the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s office. If charges are approved they likely won’t come down until Friday, prosecutor’s spokesman Greg Flannagan.
When they do, that’s when I will get involved. Until then, he is an innocent child and will be treated as such until proven guilty.
Second, I would like to know the station’s reasoning for publishing the boy’s name? Police are saying the shooting, while tragic, looks like an accident. And he hasn’t been formally charged.
It’s doubtful we will ever know. Television news rarely corrects wrong information on the air or on their Web sites because, well, they just don’t.
And the information was still on their Web site as of 11:30 this morning.
What do you think?
TweetThis mother could be you
(Shantae Smith, right, reacts after learning that her 15-year-old stepson was shot and killed by a boy playing with a handgun, according to police. Staff photo by Ron Alvey.)
It’s become cliche’: “A parent’s worst nightmare,” but take a look at this mother.
Look at her pain of losing a child.
She is Shantae Smith, stepmother of DeShawn Smith, 15, who was shot (maybe accidentally) in the face and killed while on the front porch of his friend’s house on Tyson Avenue Monday afternoon.
It was an emotional site for more than three hours at the scene. Shantae was sitting next to a police cruiser for a majority of that time beating the ground, pulling on her hair and wailing as police and coroner’s office officials walked around the area where DeShawn laid dead.
Police securing the scene kept family members who were learning of the tragedy one mouth at a time away, but you their cries were heard for blocks.
At one point, small children getting off the school bus didn’t even have to bend below the yellow tape as relatives raced toward them, shielding them from seeing DeShawn’s body and his face half blown off.
This is brutal account of what happened, but if you have kids tell them about DeShawn. He was a good kid who loved to play football and basketball. He never got into any trouble and was an A and B student, according to his high school athletic director.
Now he’s dead because a 13-year-old friend decided to play with his dad’s handgun. DeShawn’s not the first one to die senselessly. At least three young people from Dayton have died from someone “playing” with a gun in the last 18 months.
And he likely won’t be the last. So tell your kids about DeShawn. You don’t want them to be the next child to die like this.
TweetSheriff introduces pilot inmate cash card program
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s office and Fifth Third Bank of Western Ohio have started what is believed to be the first-ever inmate cash card program.
It’s an effort to streamline the release process for inmates who had cash on them at the time of their arrest and due back to them at the time of their release from jail.
Fifth Third spokesman Chuck Edmonson said he believes it is the first program of its kind in the country.
It also prevents inmates from making counterfeit checks and reduces taxpayer cost, Sheriff Phil Plummer said.
The inmates are charged roughly $2 for using the card and can only withdraw the money at the downtown Fifth Third branch at 110 North Main St.
TweetMonday morning home invasion has bizarre twists
So you’ve probably heard or read of the home invasion that happened Monday morning, Aug. 11, at a house in the 800 block of Kammer Avenue.
If not, check it out.
But there was interesting twist to the whole saga.
First, witnesses who live near the house said they see a lot of activity, which usually signals drug trafficking. Police said they found a roll of money and contraband inside the house and a drug-sniffing dog was brought in.
You can draw your own conclusions.
But before all that, a hefty and nicely-dressed woman in a pink shirt and brown pants walked up on the scene and in between myself and a man I was interviewing.
She looked like she had just gotten out of the shower because her hair was wet and glistening in the sun.
She said the car police suspected in the home invasion was hers and that she ran out of gas.
The man I was talking to saw the entire home invasion and got very angry when the woman told police the car was hers.
“The (expletive) it is her car,” he said and walked toward police.
But witnesses said another woman, now in the back of a police cruiser, was sitting in the car with the masked man and no one else.
A few minutes later the woman in pink and brown was placed in another car and officers were started buzzing around and huddling.
They asked for the woman’s cell phone and then went back to the suspect witnesses saw sitting in the car the entire time. She also had a cell phone.
According to police the women are lovers and the woman seen sitting in the car called the woman in pink and brown for an alibi.
Now, why did the woman in the back of the police cruiser have a cell phone to begin with?
A male police officer was the first to arrive and is not allowed to search the woman’s person. Plus, he had little grounds, at that point, to arrest her.
When police asked the woman in pink and brown what she was doing she made up a story, according to police. Her time frame did not match the time frame witnesses saw the silver car parked outside the house.
Police then told her if she didn’t start telling the truth she was going to be in serious trouble.
That’s when the woman caved and said she was called by her girlfriend.
Both women were taken downtown for questioning and likely face charges, according to police.
TweetPolice: Homicide suspect runs, found in trash can
It turns out a man that ran from police Tuesday, Aug. 5, and was found hiding in trash can in the 300 block of Leland Avenue is not wanted in connection with a homicide.
Michael A. Wilson III, 21, was driving a white Chevy Lumina at about 7:30 p.m. when he was pulled over for a traffic violation.
Police had been told that a 17-year-old murder suspect, Danthony Jayvaughan Williams, might be driving a Chevy Lumina similar to the one pulled over on Tuesday without license plates.
Turns out, no dice. Williams was not in the car, but Michael Wilson, the vehicle’s driver, allegedly lied about his identity to police, according to an incident report.
(Michael A. Wilson III, 21, was arrested after he fled from police, who suspect he was involved in an undisclosed homicide.)
When asked what is name was Michael Wilson said he was Antonio Wilson, his brother, according to the report. Michael easily rattled off his brother’s date of birth and social security number, but officers wrote in their report they knew what the two men looked like.
A female passenger in the car, Mercedes Thomas, also identified as Michael Wilson’s girlfriend told police that it was Antonio and she did not know who Michael was, according to the report.
The officers ran Michael’s information through the system which kicked back two felony warrants. The officers went back to Michael — who still insisted he was Antonio and had no form of identification — and told him he was going downtown to be fingerprinted.
As soon as he heard that, Michael bolted from the scene and jumped “several” fences as officers gave chase, according to the report.
Two neighborhood dogs joined the chase and tried to bite one officer before Michael Wilson disappeared, the report said.
Officers surrounded the area and after 10 minutes, found Michael Wilson hiding in a back-yard trash can. After being caught he admitted he was indeed Michael Wilson, according to the report.
Michael Wilson is in the Montgomery County Jail on felony charges of obstructing official business and receiving stolen property. He also faces charges for violating his parole.
Williams, 56 Bish St., is being sought in the June 10 triple shooting outside the Westdale Terrace apartments that left a 22-year-old woman dead, police said.
Keanna Griffin, 22, 230 Westdale Court, was shot and killed and two men were wounded, Dayton police said Tuesday, June 17.
Williams is charged with four counts of delinquency, involuntary manslaughter, felony assault and carrying a concealed weapon.
Griffin, a mother of two, died at Miami Valley Hospital a few hours after the shooting. Deargo Griffin was shot in the arm and Fahiym O’Berry was shot in the leg.
Anyone with information on Williams should call police at (937) 333-2677.
Staff writer Steve Bennish contributed to this story
TweetPolice: Gay men frequent Triangle Park to engage in sex acts
Evidently Triangle Park is a common spot for gay men looking for afternoon sex or to perform sexual acts, according to Dayton police.
Undercover detectives were working the area in the 2600 block of Ridge Avenue at about 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 4, when they noticed David Steuart sitting in a gold Cadillac.
Steuart, 42, was staring intently at the undercover male officer, which is common for men parked in the area to do, according to the report.
In his report the detective wrote, “It is common practice for gay men to meet at this park and when staring at each other they often masturbate.”
It gets better.
The detective noticed Steuart’s right shoulder moving, according to the report. The detective then got out of his pickup truck and walked to a trash can near Steuart’s car to throw something away, the report said.
While walking past the Cadillac, the detective said he nodded at Steuart and noticed his pants are unzipped and he was removing his right hand.
The detective then noticed another man, John Stephens, 61, sitting in a shelter at the park, according to the report.
Stephens then walked to his car, while the detective made contact with another officer at the scene, according to the report.
The detective then walked by Stephens’ car and the two men exchange nods, according to the report. Stephens then lifted his hips in the air, exposed and touched himself so the detective could see, according to the report.
The detective then said to Stephens “I could take care of that” and asked Stephens if he wants to go somewhere safe.
Stephens followed the detective toward the dead-end of Webster Avenue. While en route the detective gave a “take down” signal to officers in the area, according to the report.
The detective then turned onto the 1900 block of Lucille and stops near the dead-end near Interstate 75.
Stephens parked his car and Steuart shows up in his gold Cadillac. The two men were then arrested by undercover officers, according to the report.
Stephens told officers he wasn’t masturbating, but was “scratching himself,” according to the report. When asked why he followed Stephens and the undercover detective, Steuart responded, “I just followed them to get into something.”
Both men face misdemeanor charges of public indecency.
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I was sitting in an OB/GYN’s office a few weeks ago with my pregnant wife when Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s get it on” came over the speaker system.
I started mouthing the words through an imaginary microphone while grasping her hand:
I’ve been really tryin’, baby. Tryin’ to hold back this feelin’ for so long. And if you feel like I feel, baby. Then come on, oh, come on. Whoo, let’s get it on
I thought it was odd to hear that at the “Va-jay-jay doctor” as my little cousin calls it, so I text a buddy: Im at OBGYN and Marvin Gaye is gettin it on.
He promptly replied: “Wheres ur wife.”
Funny guy, my buddy Jeff. But then a few days later I called the Montgomery County Coroner’s office and was holding for Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab Director Ken Betz when I heard “Jitterbug” (two sets of fingers snapping) “Jitterbug.”
Waiting for details on a homicide I think “no way, it can’t be” … You put the boom-boom into my heart. You send my soul sky high when your lovin’ starts . . I was dreamin’ when I should have been with you instead (tsh-tsh). Wake me up before you go-go!
(George Michael and the other guy from Wham! Photo courtesy of BBC.)
How smashingly ironic to hear that Wham! song while on hold with the coroner’s office. It was like 10,000-spoons-when-all-you-need-is-a-knife ironic.
I was laughing so hard I could barely ask Betz questions.
I asked if he could play Johnny Cash or Toni Braxton’s “Breathe Again.”
“I’d love to hear Burnin’ Ring of Fire,” I told Betz.
He said he would see what he could do.
I know many organizations tune to the “easy listening” channels on their satellite radio providers so it probably can’t be helped. But maybe at our next OB/GYN appointment they will have Naughty by Nature’s “O.P.P.”
Have you ever been on hold or waiting somewhere and heard an unusual song? I’d love to hear it.
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