CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that Senior Veterans Administration Services (SVAS) founder Richard Rompala, 65, was sentenced to a total of 4 years in prison for exploiting elderly veterans and scamming the Department of Veterans Affairs out of approximately $20 million in fraudulent benefits. Additionally, SVAS must pay a maximum [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging 20-year-old Derrek Dove with killing 56-year-old Antoine Latham while he was driving for Lyft in Cleveland. “This was a cold and deliberate act of murder. Antoine Latham was killed while simply [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that Jeffrey Grant, 35, and Lanaemarshe Grant, 34, were found guilty on all charges for shooting and killing 10-year-old Kaden Coleman in February 2025. They will be sentenced on March 5, 2026, at 9 a.m. “A jury has spoken, delivering justice for Kaden Coleman. [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley, along with Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys Kevin Filiatraut and Daniel Van, as well as the parents of Cleveland Police Officer Jamieson Ritter, will speak before the Ohio House of Representatives Judiciary Committee regarding Senate Bill 295 on February 11, 2026, at 11 a.m. The hearing will take [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office will be arguing the hit-and-run crash case that killed on-duty Cleveland Firefighter Johnny Tetrick (State v. Bissell) at the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday at 9 a.m. The oral arguments will be live-streamed online at SupremeCourt.Ohio.gov or the Ohio [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging East Cleveland Police Officer Latasha Moore with felony charges for three separate incidents occurring in January 2024, February 2025, and September 2025. “It is my hope that with this new mayoral administration, [...]