Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Warren County Water reported a water main break Tuesday at 2636 Fields-Ertel Road in Deerfield Township, within the corridor's $18.6 million widening project zone, but said no boil-water advisory was needed.
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Warren County Water crews are repairing a water main break that cut service to addresses between 1618 and 1536 King Avenue in Deerfield Township on Sunday, Aug. 2; no boil water advisory has been issued.
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Warren County Judge Joseph Kirby sentenced two Mason High School students on July 29 for AI-generated child sexual abuse material, ordering both to residential treatment at Mary Haven and rebuking one teen's parents for removing phone safeguards.
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A driver was pronounced dead at the scene of a three-vehicle crash at U.S. 127 and Eaton Road in Milford Township on Tuesday evening, July 28; the Butler County Sheriff's Office says a silver Toyota failed to yield at the intersection.
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The Deerfield Township Board of Zoning Appeals will hear three variance cases on Thursday, August 13, headlined by a request from Criterion at 2906 Route 22 & 3 to place a non-soundproofed dog area closer than the required 500-foot setback to neighboring properties.
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Mason Police Department's Flock Safety cameras helped Delhi Township Police locate William Bauer, a missing 86-year-old man with dementia, on Monday, July 27, leading to the cancellation of a Silver Alert.
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A Monday, July 27, 2026 bond hearing revealed Vincent Stoetzel was shot 22 times at Carter Lumber in Mason and was "absolutely" the intended target, according to Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell; suspect David Cohen was ordered held without bond and the case heads to a grand jury.
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Warren County Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler sentenced Franklin Brian Gross, 58, to one year in prison on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, for a vehicular manslaughter conviction stemming from a head-on crash on Ohio 741 in Turtlecreek Township that killed Army veteran and author David Randolph "Randy" Wills in April 2025.
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Warren County has four confirmed cyclosporiasis cases linked to recalled Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce as Ohio's outbreak reaches 2,574 cases and the CDC deploys disease investigators to the state.
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A Warren County grand jury indicted Gardiner Mosher, 60, of Lebanon on strangulation, ethnic intimidation, aggravated menacing, and assault charges after he allegedly choked and yelled racial slurs at his Lyft driver on May 18. Mosher's arraignment is set for August 7 in Warren County court.
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David Cohen, 34, of Hamilton, has been charged with murder after a Carter Lumber employee was shot and killed at the company's door manufacturing facility on Reading Road in Mason on Wednesday, July 22.
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Federal authorities have charged Alexander Green of Jacksonville, North Carolina, in connection with a fatal overdose in Clearcreek Township, alleging he ran a dark web drug shop called "Starlabs" that shipped heroin, meth, and counterfeit pills through the U.S. mail into Ohio.
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