Roy and Vesta Warner are 74 and 73.They pleaded no contest to spending Vesta’s stepfather’s insurance settlement on a motorcycle, among other expenses. →
A Lorain man accused of being the getaway driver in a shooting in January 2018 that seriously wounded an Avon woman will remain free on bond for the time being, but he is stuck at home at least through his May trial date. →
Bruce Arnoff has filed a motion in Lorain County Common Pleas Court, which, if granted, could cause him to face the death penalty in connection with the murder-for-hire plot that led to the killing of Willie Fisher in July. →
Authorities believed Arnoff hired two men to kill Willie Fisher, paying them $500. Patrick Gall was found guilty of aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence at trial last month. →
ELYRIA — Jacob Champion was found not guilty on all counts in the rape trial in which he was accused of sodomizing a 17-month-old boy with an object that may have been a small souvenir baseball bat. Testimony in the bench trial of Champion, →
ELYRIA — Jacob Champion told the 7-year-old sister of his alleged victim to go back to bed, not go in her brother’s room and to not wake up her mother after the girl came out of her bedroom to check on why her little brother was crying →
Jacob Champion opted for a bench trial on charges of rape, felonious assault and endangering children. He’s accused of sexually assaulting a 17-month old child. →
“He doesn’t even show any regret,” said Assistant County Prosecutor Laura Dezort. “We’re not even seeing that. There’s an arrogance and a coldness that is remarkable, especially in someone of his age.” →
ELYRIA — Shortly after the state rested in its case in the murder trial of Patrick Gall, Gall’s defense attorney, J. Anthony Rich, rested his case without presenting any witnesses. Gall, 19, of East Cleveland faces charges of aggravated →
ELYRIA — Brooklyn police had no idea that Patrick Gall and John Sullivan were suspected of being involved in the slaying of Willie Fisher hours before officers pulled the two over in a black BMW on Interstate 480 on July 6. Officer Shane →