London Crime

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Recent Crime News

• Debate sparked by police car bargain

  Tuesday | via The Madison Press 

  West Jefferson village council on Monday, May 21, was presented with a proposal to update the department's police vehicles considerable savings.

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  Related Topix: West Jefferson, OH, London, OH

• Column: Damn the money, Olympics renew east London

  Monday May 28 | via WHIO 

  In August of 1944, when the tough east London neighborhoods of his childhood lay smoking in bombed-out ruins, a Nazi German V1 rocket packed with one ton of high explosives "fell just where you're sitting," David Gold says.

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  Related Topix: Olympics, Summer Olympics

• Senior Center director fired

  Friday May 25 | via The Madison Press 

  Todd Lane is out as executive director of the Madison County Senior Center in London amid allegations of a personal relationship with a female employee that jeopardized safety at the facility.

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  Related Topix: Madison County, OH, London, OH

• Witness no-show tanks trial

  Tuesday May 22 | via The Madison Press 

  A jury trial planned for Madison County Common Pleas Court on Monday was aborted after a key witness for the prosecution - a confidential police informant - failed to show up to testify.

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  Related Topix: Madison County, OH, Drugs, London, OH

• Getting carted away

  Tuesday May 22 | via The Madison Press 

  London police officers continue to investigate the theft of an EZ GO golf cart from London High School Friday morning.

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• 'No contest' plea entered in Payne case

  Saturday May 19 | via The Madison Press 

  The man responsible for a Feb. 3 crash on Lafayette-Plain City Road that killed London resident Marilyn Payne pleaded no contest in Madison County Common Pleas Court on Friday to an amended count of aggravated vehicular homicide.

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  Related Topix: London, OH, Madison County, OH, Drugs

• Roadway to be named in honor of slain deputy

  Thursday May 17 | via Middletown Journal 

  A Warren County Sheriff's deputy who died in the line of duty will have the road on which he was killed named in his honor, state representatives announced.

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  Related Topix: Warren County, OH, Lebanon, OH, Waynesville, OH, Middletown, OH, London, OH

• Three arraigned in Common Pleas Court

  Wednesday May 16 | via The Madison Press 

  Problems continue to pile up for a former Mt. Sterling resident accused of violating his probation on a 2011 theft charge.

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  Related Topix: Mount Sterling, OH, London, OH

• Swanson sentenced to 15 mos.

  Tuesday May 15 | via The Madison Press 

  A London man accused of abusing an elderly family member during a domestic dispute in December 2011 will spend 15 months in prison for the crime.

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  Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, London, OH, Pickaway County, OH

• Fallen deputy's children still ask, 'Why our daddy?'

  Wednesday May 9 | via Middletown Journal 

  Warren County Sheriff Larry Sims stood at the door. He told Dulle her husband wasn't coming home.

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  Related Topix: Warren County, OH, Middletown, OH, London, OH

• Hunt faces up to 8 years

  Wednesday May 9 | via The Madison Press 

  The last of three people accused of burglarizing the home of Madison County Commissioner Dave Dhume on Jan.

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  Related Topix: Madison County, OH, Enon, OH, Clark County, OH, London, OH

• London stages final test events ahead of Olympics

  Saturday May 5 | via WFIE-TV Evansville 

  Lawyers say authorities have detained over 300 Egyptian protesters including 18 women following clashes outside the country's Defense Ministry, accused of attacking troops and disrupting public order.

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  Related Topix: Olympic Track And Field, Summer Sports, Sports, Olympic Field Hockey, Olympic Water Polo, Olympics, Summer Olympics, Events