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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Man arrested for exposing himself after court hearing on public indecency
KETTERING — Police arrested a Kettering man on Wednesday, July 1, after a woman said he exposed himself to her while both were at the Kettering Municipal Court for hearings.
Justin W. Farthing was in court to face a charge of public indecency following a June 5 arrest. On that date, police found him running nude in a neighborhood at Marshall Road and Lincoln Park Boulevard about 3 a.m., Kettering Officer Michael Burke said.
Soon after changing his plea from not guilty to guilty on the offense, Farthing exposed himself to the woman sitting next to him. She alerted court officials, who called police, Burke said.
Police arrested Farthing on another misdemeanor public indecency charge and took him to the city jail before he was transfered to the Montgomery County Jail, Burke said.
TweetSOFAST arrests alleged kidnapper, later discovers apparent drug house
Members of the U.S. Marshals Service-led group that searches out wanted persons has arrested a man accused of kidnapping his 11-year-old daughter and later served an arrest warrant that led to the discovery of guns, drugs and a surveillance system at a house in west Dayton.
The Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team, known by the acronym SOFAST, arrested Victor Jones, 41, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 1. He was wanted for kidnapping his daughter shortly before a custody hearing, said William Taylor, supervisory deputy of the Marshals for the Southern District of Ohio.
Authorities in South Bend, Ind., and Niles, Mich., helped SOFAST track Jones to the Fairborn home of a relative, where he was arrested, Taylor said.
Authorities kicked in the home’s door after Jones, who was looking out a front window, would not open it, Taylor said. Jones struggled with authorities, who used a Taser on him. The girl was also combative with SOFAST members, Taylor said.
She was turned over to Greene County Children Services, Taylor said. Jones was also wanted for soliciting a child for sex in Indiana and failing to register as a sex offender in Michigan, he said.
Later in the morning, SOFAST members served an arrest warrant for a probation violation at a home in the 1500 block of South Broadway Street. While there, authorities discovered large amounts of a substance believed to be heroin, guns and an elaborate surveillance system that included flat-screen televisions, Taylor said.
Dayton police secured a search warrant for the home and were continuing to search it Wednesday afternoon.
TweetOther agencies looking into chase suspects
TROTWOOD — Several area law enforcement agencies are communicating with Trotwood police regarding three suspects arrested after an armed robbery and a 30-minutes chase on Tuesday, June 30, because they could be suspects in other crimes, a Trotwood detective said.
Police arrested JaMarcus Drane (aka JaMarcus Brown), 18, after the car in which he was riding lost two tires and stopped in front of a house on Gettysburg Avenue. Police arrested two other juveniles, including Drane’s younger brother, said Trotwood Detective Steve Derringer.
The three men are accused of robbing a woman outside of her home, which doubles as her business, at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday and then leading authorities from the Dayton and Trotwood police departments and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office on a half-hour chase throughout west Dayton.
Drane remains in Montgomery County Jail, and the two juveniles are also in custody pending the formal filing of charges. Police will seek to have the two juveniles tried as adults, Derringer said.
The brothers are well-known to Trotwood police and other area law enforcement agencies as suspects in multiple crimes, Derringer said.
“They’re into prettty much everything.” Derringer said.
The incident began when the three suspects approached a woman outside her home in the 5000 block of Wolf Creek Pike. They had apparently watched her come out of a bank and believed she had a large amount of cash on her, Derringer said.
The suspects fled and were spotted soon after by Trotwood police, who initiated a pursuit that led police on the chase that included their white Cadillac hitting a police cruiser near the corner of Layton Drive and Stanford Place, running over stop sticks that slashed their tires on East Third Street and finally coming to a stop on Gettysburg.
The two brothers were arrested near the car, and the suspect by apprehended by a police dog after a short chase and treated at Grandview Hospital for injuries acquired while resisting arrest, Derringer said.
The suspects are believed to have tossed at least one gun from the vehicle during the chase, Derringer said.
A gun was recovered on Decker Avenue in Dayton.
TweetFire at senior community controlled by sprinklers
DAYTON — A fire that was likely caused by a discarded cigarette was contained to the bedroom of a senior living community apartment by effective sprinklers, a Dayton fire district chief said.
Firefighters were called to Pheasant Run, 2920 Old Troy Pike, at about 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday, July 1, on the report of a structure fire. When they arrived, they discovered smoke coming from a third-floor window, said District Chief David Grahl.
The initial investigation showed that the fire began on a mattress and was likely started by a cigarette left in the area when the resident left. The sprinkler system activated and kept the fire from spreading to other rooms in the apartment or throughout the building, Grahl said.
There were no injuries, Grahl said. Most of the damage is water-related, he said, and discarded pieces of the mattress were tossed from the window.
“A cigarette can take hours to get a fire started,” Grahl said.
Investigators were called to the scene due to the size of the building, he said.
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