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November 2008
House explosion sends man to hospital with third-degree burns
JEFFERSON TWP., Montgomery County - A man was rushed to Miami Valley Hospital with third-degree burns over 75 percent of his body after an explosion inside his home late Friday night, Nov. 28.
Fire crews responded to 40 Calumet Lane just after 9 p.m. on the report of a house fire, according to a Montgomery County Sheriff’s dispatcher.
They arrived to find the man inside and part of the house blown off, scattered all over the front yard and road, according to the Jefferson Twp. Fire Department.
The fire was extinguished and investigators found no one else inside, investigators said.
It is unclear at this time what caused the explosion, but investigators said electricity and natural gas had previously been disconnected from the structure.
The man, whose identity is unknown, is in critical condition as of 11 p.m.
TweetMan drives to local hospital after being shot
HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County - A dispute over a girl Wednesday, Nov. 26, escalated to gunshots with the shooting victim showing up at Good Samaritan Hospital, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies are investigating what led to the shooting at the Northland Village Apartments, 1952 Republic Drive, at about 6:30 p.m.
The victim’s identity, along with the shooter’s, has not been released but he expected to survive a single gunshot wound to the upper body, Sheriff Phil Plummer said.
The female told deputies the victim tried to intervene in a physical fight she was having with a male acquaintance, according to a sheriff’s report. The man she was fighting with then pulled out a gun and fired, the report stated.
The wounded man then jumped into his car and drove to the hospital, Plummer said. He has since been treated and released from the hospital.
The shooter is still at large, Plummer said. Anyone with information is urge to call 911 immediately.
TweetHappy Thanksgiving everyone! Now behave.
It’s been relatively quiet on the crime beat the last few days and we should all be thankful for that.
I hope it is a quiet holiday and everyone gets along. To get everyone in a good mood, here is one of my favorite turkey jokes:
A game warden was driving down the road when saw a boy carrying a wild turkey under his arm.
He stopped and asked the boy, “Where did you get that turkey?”
The boy replied, “What turkey?”
The game warden said, “That turkey you’re carrying under your arm.”
The boy looks down and said, “Well, lookee here, a turkey done roosted under my arm!”
The game warden said, “Now look, you know turkey season is closed, so whatever you do to that turkey, I’m going to do to you. If you break his leg, I’m gonna break your leg. If you break his wing, I’ll break your arm. Whatever you do to him, I’ll do to you. So, what are you gonna do with him?”
The little boy answered, “I guess I’ll just kiss his fanny and let him go!”
TweetMan indicted in murder of Sinclair employee
Mark NolanDAYTON - A Montgomery County grand jury has indicted Mark Anthony Nolan for the July murder of a Sinclair Community College employee.
Nolan, 30, is charged with two counts of aggravated murder for the death of Stephen Linderman.
Linderman, 59, was found beaten to death in the bedroom of his home in the 1600 block of Northdale Road on July 19. Detectives said he had numerous lacerations on his body and had severe blunt force trauma to his head.
Nolan is also charged with aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, theft, grand theft, failure to comply and petty theft.
He is in jail on $1 million bond.
Linderman was an Enterprise Applications administrator in information technology and had been employed at Sinclair since 1987, the school said.
TweetPolice: Mom sets fire with kids inside house
DAYTON - A woman told police she started a fire inside her house Monday, Nov. 24, while her children were still inside because she was tired of her children’s father and taking care of her family, according to police.
Officers and firefighters responding to the fire in the 400 block of Edgar Avenue at about 10 p.m. found the house full of smoke and two children, including an infant, left unattended upstairs, according to a police report.
Summer Gentry later told officers she lit a newspaper on fire on the kitchen stove because she was upset with her boyfriend, Renaldo Evans, according to the report. Evans also lives in the house, according to police.
Officers said they could smell alcohol on her breath and found empty bottles of alcohol inside the house, the report stated.
Once the house was clear of smoke, officers went back in and found it to be in deplorable condition, the report stated. There was food in the carpet and trash piled up throughout the house, including around the bathroom toilet and in the baby’s playpen, the report stated.
Officers said in the report they had trouble going through the house because there wasn’t a clear path due to all the trash, food and clothes.
There were bugs, including roaches and gnats, all over the house, and officers found just a package of bologna and a bottle of ketchup in the refrigerator, the report stated.
Children’s Services was called to investigate, and the children were removed from the home, the report stated. They were given to a relative with suitable living conditions.
Gentry, 29, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of child endangering, while Evans, 29, was summoned to appear.
TweetOfficer found microwave dinners in bag
DAYTON - Officers responding to a burglary alarm at a local school arrived to find a man carrying a blue bag full of microwave dinners and the teachers’ lounge refrigerator raided.
Officer Joshua Frisby was near the Miami Valley Childhood Development Center, 3805 Kings Highway at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, when he noticed John L. Brandon Jr. walking away from the building, according to a police report.
Brandon, 51 (pictured), was carrying the blue bag around his neck, but he did not notice Frisby, who arrived after an alarm was tripped inside the school, the report stated.
Brandon told Frisby he was coming from a convenience store where he purchased some food, according to the report. Frisby opened up the bag and found screwdrivers, cutting pliers and a flashlight.
There was also a Kroger bag full of Banquet dinners, the report stated.
More officers arrived to find a window screen had been cut and a window open near the teacher’s lounge, the report stated. They went inside and found the freezer had been raided.
When asked where he got the food, Brandon allegedly told officers he came from a direction different than Frisby had observed. Frisby then learned Brandon had burglarized the school in 2006, according to the report.
Brandon was arrested on a felony charge of breaking and entering and possessing criminal tools.
TweetPolice: Coroner’s report crucial in indicting men in Sipos’ death
Antonio Gomez
Robert T. Kleekamp
Robert HancherDAYTON - Three men are now in custody for the February beating death of Stephen C. Sipos, according to police.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Robert Hancher, 23, at about 1 p.m. today, Nov. 25, after he was indicted on a murder charge. Dayton police arrested Robert T. Kleekamp, 22 and Antonio Gomez II, 19, at about 5 p.m., Monday, Nov. 24, according to jail records.
Kleekamp is also charged with murder and Gomez involuntary manslaughter.
An arraignment hearing has been set for Dec. 9 for all three men.
Sipos, 32, was found bleeding outside Meercat’s Bar and Grill, 1227 Wilmington Ave., on Feb. 2, by a friend who called 911. He had multiple head injuries and died of blunt force trauma to the head and neck, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
Sipos was still alive when medics arrived, but he was pronounced dead upon arrival at Miami Valley Hospital, according to police.
The three men had been considered suspects throughout their investigation, but coroner’s reports nailed down indictments handed down Monday afternoon, Lt. Patrick Welsh said.
“There was no deficiency in our investigation,” Welsh said. “We were just waiting on the medical evidence that proved this was a brutal homicide.”
Sipos suffered multiple fractures to the head and neck, according to the coroner’s report. He also sustained severe brain injuries as a result of the beating.
Sipos’ father, Steve, declined comment Tuesday, saying he did not want to compromise the investigation.
Police said Sipos followed at least one of the men out of the bar in February and a fight ensued. Detectives have spent the last 10 months trying to determine if the men were acting in self defense, Welsh said.
“The coroner’s report is not consistent with a claim of self defense,” Welsh said.
Gomez faces a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter after investigators determined he was not as involved in causing Sipos’ death as Kleekamp and Hancher, Welsh said.
TweetPolice dog bites man wanted on felony dog fighting charges
DAYTON - A Dayton police dog on Sunday, Nov. 23, bit and helped apprehend a man wanted on felony dog-fighting charges.
Ranon O. Brock, 31, allegedly fled on foot when he saw officers who responded to a burglary-in-progress call in the 100 block of Cambridge Avenue at about 5:45 p.m., Lt. Patrick Welsh said.
The K-9 unit was called to help track Brock (pictured), who saw the dog and began to run back toward officers who were chasing from another direction, Welsh said.
The K-9 and another officer caught Brock at the same time, and the dog accidentally bit the officer in the calf, Welsh said.
The dog released once given the command by an officer who started to wrestle with Brock. The K-9 jumped into the fray and grabbed Brock on the wrist so officers could arrest him.
“The dog does not distinguish between good guys and bad,” Welsh said. “But he did follow commands, and that’s what he is trained to do.”
The officer was treated for a puncture wound at a local hospital and released. Brock was treated for bites to his hand and was then transported to jail on two felony counts of illegal dog fighting.
Brock also faces misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, obstructing official business and other outstanding warrants involving domestic violence.
TweetElder-Beerman employee wrestles with woman trying to steal kids clothes
DAYTON - A quick-responding Elder-Beerman employee wrestled a 25-year-old woman away from a cart-full of stolen kids’ clothes she was trying to steal Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 18.
Dayton police were notified at about 1:30 p.m. the store’s loss-prevention officer Michael Fournier had Tyesha Washington in custody at 1917 Philadelphia Drive, according to a police report.
Fournier allegedly observed Washington and another woman “randomly grab” numerous articles of kids’ clothing and load them into a cart, the report stated.
Washington’s partner then left the store and pulled a green 1993 Pontiac Bonneville up to the store’s entrance where Washington was waiting with the cart of clothes, the report stated.
The women then started loading the clothes into the car, Fournier told police. Fournier confronted the women and was able to detain Washington, but the other woman took off in the car, according to the report.
Washington tried to get away from Fournier and the two began to wrestle, the report stated. Fournier suffered injuries to his left hand and knees, but was able to detain Washington, who was treated by medics after injuring her right hand.
She was then booked into jail on felony charges of aggravated robbery and obstructing justice. Police are still looking for her accomplice.
TweetMan charged with murder in Harrison Twp. shooting
DAYTON - Criminal charges against a man accused of murdering Rufus Childers were approved by the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office Thursday, Nov. 20, according to a news release.
A panel of three prosecutors approved murder and felony drug-trafficking charges against Jesse McIntyre, 27, who authorities said shot Childers, 33, three times in a friend’s home at 4266 Cardinal Ave. Tuesday, Nov. 18.
Jesse McIntyre
Steven Meadows
Melody GrahamMcIntyre also faces numerous other felony charges including: one count of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of felonious assault, five felony counts of aggravated drug possession and having weapons while under disability.
Steven Meadows, 44, Melody Graham, 32, and the home’s owner, Charles Lunsford have also been formally charged with felony drug-trafficking charges Prosecutor Mathias Heck said in a statement released Thursday.
It was Meadows, Graham and McIntyre who showed up at the house in a van at about 12:30 p.m. looking to sell prescription drugs authorities believe McIntyre recently stole from a pharmacy in Clinton County.
Childers refused to buy the pills and that’s when McIntyre started shooting, Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer said. Childers was shot three times, twice in the chest and once in the head, Plummer said.
McIntyre and Graham were arrested hours after the shooting after pulling into a Super 8 motel on Dryden Road. Meadows was arrested while driving the van in Riverside.
Graham also faces five counts of aggravated drug possession and three counts of drug possession.
Lunsford, who has prior drug-related convictions, knows Meadows and help set up the deal, authorities said.
Meadows, Graham and McIntyre are still in jail. Lunsford has yet to booked in as of 5 p.m., according to jail records.
TweetMan allegedly steals car twice, offers it for crack
DAYTON — Police arrested a man Wednesday, Nov. 19, for allegedly stealing an acquaintance’s car twice and then offering to sell it for crack.
Officers arrived in the 300 block of Hickory Street at 8:10 p.m., and the complainant told them a man he knew had stolen his 2002 Honda Civic, according to a police report. The complainant said the man had stolen it another time recently, and police did not recover a key when they found the car.
Officers then went searching the known address for Randy Lee Riley (pictured above), 42, the man the complainant said stole the car. They soon spotted the Civic traveling with four occupants and stopped the car.
After handcuffing the four passengers and recovering a crack pipe from inside Riley’s pants, officers interviewed Riley. He said he had been at the complainant’s home a few days ago, and the complainant fed him.
“The devil had ahold of me,” Riley told police, according to the report, “and I saw the key in the car door, and I just got in it and took it.”
Riley told officers he still had the key and again stole the car Wednesday. He also told them he had just met the other passengers recently and offered to give them the car for $50 worth of crack. Police recovered crack from under the driver’s seat in the Civic, although Riley claimed it was not his because he hadn’t yet been paid, the report said.
Riley was arrested on charges of theft and possession of drugs.
TweetU.S. Marshals in Fairborn arrest man wanted in South Carolina
FAIRBORN - U.S. Marshals arrested a man in Fairborn Wednesday, Nov. 19, wanted in South Carolina for multiple counts of trafficking in cocaine.
Deputy Marshals and the Dayton Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team (SOFAST) tracked LaMont Delaney to the 70 block of Loretta Avenue early Wednesday morning, according to authorities.
After hours of surveillance they were able to arrest Delaney while he was driving in the area, U.S. Marshal Jim Wahlrab said.
Delaney allegedly gave authorities a false name and denied, at first, he was the man authorities were looking for, Wahlrab said. But when deputies showed him a picture he said “It’s over. You got me.”
Delaney is wanted by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office for trafficking in drugs and possessing a firearm, Wahlrab said.
He likely faces more charges after deputies searched his car Wednesday and allegedly found 25 grams of crack cocaine and $2,000 in cash, Wahlrab said.
Fairborn police took custody of Delaney, who is now awaiting extradition back to South Carolina.
TweetPolice: Woman kicks officer to ground during arrest
DAYTON - A 28-year-old woman was Tasered three times after she allegedly kicked an officer in the knee and tried to punch another Sunday, Nov. 16.
Two officers responding to a domestic disturbance call at 1:45 a.m. at 14 Hudson Ave. discovered Leanette Newton (pictured) had an outstanding warrant. They told her she was under arrest and to put her hands behind her back, according to a police report.
But, as they were handcuffing the 5-feet, 140-pound woman, Newton began to pull away from the officers, the report stated.
The struggle spilled out of Newton’s house and onto the street where Newton allegedly continued to resist arrest and kicked an officer in the leg, causing the officer to fall over, the report stated.
Another officer took Newton to the ground, but before they could get her in handcuffs, Newton started swinging at the officers, the report stated.
One of the officers then Tasered Newton in the back, but it had no effect, the report stated. She was then Tasered in the chest, but it failed to stop her actions, the report stated.
Newton finally stopped resisting after the was Tasered for a third time, according to the report. She was taken to jail on a felony charge of assaulting a police officer.
None of the officers were seriously hurt during the incident.
TweetThree promoted in fire department
DAYTON - Three city firefighters have something to celebrate this holiday season — a promotion.
Fire Chief Herbert Redden has promoted Jeffrey L. Lykins to Captain and Gregory Barker and Raymond Bush to rank of Lieutenant, effective Monday Nov. 17.
Lykins is the first captain in the department’s history to be a certified paramedic. He has been with the department since 1992.
Barker joined the department in 1996 and is a certified EMT. Bush has been with the department since 1986, is a certified EMT and, like Barker, is certified in hazardous materials.
TweetPolice: Teens made woman strip during armed robbery
DAYTON - Two 19-year-old men are in jail after officers found them holding three people, one of them naked, at gunpoint inside a house in the 300 block of Firwood Ave.
Antonio Wilson (pictured left) and Davion Cotterman (right) were holding the people hostage and threatening their lives as officers arrived at about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 12, according to police.
Officers could overhear the men yelling at the hostages and threatening to shoot them, according to police. The men were seeking drugs and money, Lt. Patrick Welsh said.
While inside, the men forced a woman to strip naked while they fondled her, Welsh said.
When one of the suspects heard a knock at the door, they opened it to find the house surrounded and an officer pointing a gun in their face, according to police.
Wilson and Cotterman each face felony charges of gross sexual imposition, aggravated robbery, burglary and kidnapping. They are in jail on $500,000 bond.
No one was seriously injured during the incident.
TweetWoman arrested for trying to stab brother
DAYTON - Police officers tracked down and arrested Julie Bowling after she allegedly tried to stab her brother Sunday, Nov. 16.
Officers arrived in the 300 block of Morton Avenue at about 6 p.m. to find a glass window broken out of Jeff Ruzick’s house, according to a police report. He told officers Bowling, 35, and a cousin, broke the window after they banged on his front door and threatened his girlfriend, the report stated.
Bowling (pictured) allegedly told her brother she was going to “hurt him” and cut his girlfriend’s hair off, according to the report.
When Ruzick went out to confront his sister, Bowling grabbed a pair of scissors and tried to stab him “seven or eight” times, the report stated.
He said Bowling kept raising the scissors above her head and, at one point, tried to stab him in the chest, according to the report. Bowling then left the scene.
Officers found her in the 200 block of North Wright Street where Bowling told them she had been to her brother’s place, according to the report.
She was arrested on a felonious assault charge and a misdemeanor charge of criminal damaging.
TweetTeen dies hours after being shot in back at bus stop
DAYTON - A 17-year-old boy shot in the back Thursday morning, Nov. 13, while waiting at a bus stop with his girlfriend has died.
Damarion Flippin, 108 Pointview Ave., was pronounced dead at 12:34 p.m., six hours after he was shot on Santa Clara Avenue, said Ken Betz, Miami Valley Regional Crime director.
Police have detained at least one suspect for questioning this afternoon, Lt. John Huber said.
Flippin was shot at about 6:30 a.m. after a brief argument near the bus stop, Huber said. The argument was something that carried over from a previous incident, but Huber said investigators were still gathering details about what led to the shooting.
Flippin’s girlfriend reportedly fled the scene before shots were fired; she was trying to get help, Huber said.
The girlfriend returned to find Flippin on the street, according to police. He was transported to Miami Valley Hospital, where he later died. It is unclear how many times he was shot.
Anyone with information is urged to call 333-COPS.
TweetSheriff’s deputies looking for missing person
HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County - Sheriff’s deputies said they are looking for a man who has been missing since Monday, Nov. 3.
Uriah L. Hills, 5-feet-6, 145-pound black man was last seen Monday at the Tim Hortons, 7901 Brandt Pike.
He was driving a 1994 blue Chevy Cavalier with the license plate number EDC3717. That vehicle is listed as stolen.
Hills, 21, was wearing a red, white and black long-sleeved shirt, black jogging pants and white Nike shoes. Anyone with information is urged to call 225-4357.
TweetArrested man spits on officers in cruiser
In all the times I’ve looked through police reports, I had never seen a charge of “Throw bodily fluids at Law Enforcement Officer.” Until this morning.
Dayton police arrested 20-year-old Joemac Boykin (pictured above) on Wednesday, Nov. 5, on charges of menacing, criminal trespass, resisting arrest and — you guessed it — throw bodily fluids at law enforcement officer after the following incident, according to a police report:
Officers were walking on East Fourth Street at 1 p.m. when they spotted Boykin at an RTA bus stop. They knew Boykin had been trespassed from the stop before, so they watched him for a few minutes “socializing with approximately ten individuals.”
As Boykin left the stop and approached the officers, they told him he was under arrest for trespassing. He shouted at the officers and told them he was not trespassing but simply headed to the store.
Boykin made his body go limp and jerked around as the officers tried to walk him to a cruiser. Once officers got him in the cruiser, he yelled that police had no right messing with him and that if he didn’t have the handcuffs on he would “whoop” them.
About one inch of the cruiser’s glass partition was open, and Boykin leaned up near the glass and spit onto the back of one of the officers’ heads. Not once, but three times. Officers then put a “spit sock” on his head to prevent more spitting.
The officers then transported Boykin to Montgomery County Jail.
TweetVoting crowd gets full view of disorderly conduct
DAYTON — A crowd of people waiting to vote at the Burkhardt Center on Tuesday, Nov. 4, received a sideshow in the form of a disorderly conduct arrest by Dayton police.
Officers responded to the area of Burkhardt and Watts at 2:25 p.m., because of heavy drug complaints in the area, according to a police report. When they arrived, they say two subjects trying to get into an apartment at a nearby apartment complex. A woman was telling one of the subjects to get away from her.
Officers exited their cruiser, patted down the subjects and found a bag of marijuana on one of them. He was placed in the back of the cruiser to be issued a misdemeanor citation for possession. On his walk to the cruiser, the subject, who police said had a strong odor of alcohol, told police a woman dropped the bag from a teal car. He told police he only picked it up, the report said.
The subject was “highly upset and loud during the entire situation,” the report said. When the subject was released from the cruiser, a nearby car squealed its tires.
“(The subject) yelled in a loud voice, ‘See, now you can go (expletive) with someone else.’” the report said. “There were numerous people outside in vehicles and on foot. This was partly due to the election and voting that was occurring at the Burkhardt Center.”
Police placed the subject back in the cruiser to issue him a citation for disorderly conduct. The subject continued to swear, telling police it was his freedom of speech and he could say whatever he wanted, the report said.
The subject was warned if he continued to curse he would be arrested for disorderly conduct, and when he was released from the cruiser again he stood in the middle of the street and told officers to “go (expletive) with someone else,” the report said.
Police then placed the subject under arrest and faced more verbal abuse on the ride to Montgomery County Jail, the report said.
TweetMan threatens hospital patient, takes swing at officers
DAYTON - I’ve never seen this one on an ER episode:
Like most of the visitors in the emergency room at Miami Valley Hospital on Monday, Nov. 3, at about 8 p.m., Dayton police Officer Sean Humphrey walked out in the hall when he heard the yelling and the cursing.
He looked down the hall and saw three Miami Valley Hospital police officers wrestling with a man who allegedly told staff members that the patient in room 7 needed to be “shot in the head,” according to a police report.
When hospital police confronted 54-year-old Mark D. Walden Jr., the man swung at one of them and that’s when Humphrey noticed the tussling from down the hall, the report stated.
Humphrey rushed down the hall and helped hospital police secure Walden (pictured) in handcuffs without anyone suffering serious injury, the report stated.
Hospital police said Walden was “intoxicated,” and that’s what led to the incident.
Walden is in jail an a felony assault charge and a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge.
TweetWoman arrested for punching 12-year-old in front of police
DAYTON - Police arrested a 38-year-old woman Saturday, Nov. 1, after she allegedly punched her 12-year-old daughter in the face while talking to officers.
LaShawnda Jackson called police at about 12:30 a.m. to pick up her two sons, who were in another part town, and bring them home to the 500 block of South Broadway Avenue, according to a police report.
While explaining the situation to police, Jackson’s daughter came into the room, according to the report. Jackson allegedly told her daughter “not to get in her face,” and to go back in another room, the report stated.
The 12-year-old girl then came back in the room a few minutes later to speak to her mother, the report stated.
That’s when Jackson, “without warning,” struck her daughter in the face with a closed fist, according to the report.
Officers grabbed Jackson and told her she could not hit a child like that, the report stated. Jackson told officers her 12-year-old was “being rude,” according to the report.
She was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of child endangering and Montgomery County Children’s Services was contacted, the report stated.
The 12-year-old girl was not seriously injured by the punch and did not seek medical treatment, the report stated.
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