CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment yesterday charging Jonathan Rivera-Ortiz, 28, Christine Vazquez, 28, and Luis Ortiz, 29, for illegally riding dirt bikes in Cleveland. “These charges send a stern message that it is no longer business as [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced today that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Portria Williams, 31, Destiny Henderson, 18, Nathaniel Poke, 23, Anthony Bryant, 19, Hakeem-Ali Shomo, 31, and Brittany Smith, 33, for torturing and killing a 21-year-old female (A.P.) in East Cleveland. [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced yesterday that Todd Jones, 57, and Laurel Hoffman, 54, pleaded guilty and were sentenced for cutting down and selling an over 200-year-old Black Walnut tree in the Cleveland Metroparks Mill Stream Run Reservation in September 2021. “These siblings purposefully destroyed invaluable park [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced today that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging the construction company Atlas Masonry Restoration and Maintenance, as well as its owner, 55-year-old Elmer Mekker, and 52-year-old foreman Charles Hawley, for the Marine Towers West parking garage collapse in Lakewood in December [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced today that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Sean Simpkins, 39, and David McCord, 43, for attempting to kidnap and human traffic a 22-year-old female at an RTA Station in Cleveland. On April 3, 2022, [...]

CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced today that Desmond Beasley, 36, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting multiple former students from 2013 to 2018 and for possessing child exploitative material. “Desmond Beasley violated his primary duty as a teacher. Instead of caring for his [...]

CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced Kenneth Graves, 59, was sentenced to 15 to 20 ½ years in prison for the physical and sexual assault of a social worker in June 2021. “This man violently attacked and assaulted a social worker. This horrible crime has forever changed the [...]

CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that the Ohio Parole Board voted to deny parole and the Ohio Supreme Court ruled to dismiss an appeal for convicted murderer Shannon Kidd, 43. “We applaud the Ohio Parole Board and the Ohio Supreme Court's decisions to deny parole and to [...]

CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Tamara McLoyd, 18, and Jada Hite, 18, for several robberies in the Cleveland area in November 2021. On November 2, 2021, at 9:35 p.m., Jada Hite and an unknown [...]

CLEVELAND – Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Tamara McLoyd, 18, for the murder of 25-year-old Cleveland Police Officer Shane Bartek. On December 31, 2021, McLoyd ran up behind the victim with a gun, robbed him, [...]