CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that the defendant Bart Mercurio, 52, was sentenced to nine years in prison for the sexual assault of a 33-year-old woman in 1999. The arrest was the result of the efforts of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Office’s G.O.L.D. Unit (Genetic Operations Linking DNA). [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jujuan Tao, 48, Jianwen Chen, 37, Duoxiu Yang, 42, Jin Lian Chen, 49, Yixiu Chen, 46, Joseph Scherer, 43, Michael Johnson, 59, Zhichen Fang, 52, Quin Wang, 38, Ling Lin, 43, and Ai Hua [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Treveon Jones, 18, Jaahdarion Louis-Jones, 20, and Anthony Evans, 21, with additional charges for six separate carjackings that happened throughout Cuyahoga County. “Crime does not stop at any jurisdictional border. Carjackings [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Eric Bartlett, 39, John Orr, 22, and Christopher Perry, 52, for child exploitation charges. Eric Bartlett Eric Bartlett actively acquired and viewed child exploitation material. In response to a Cybertip from NCMEC a [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that the defendant Leo Bradley Scott III, 61, pleaded guilty for the sexual assaults of two women in 1994 and 1998. The arrest was the result of the efforts of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Office’s G.O.L.D. Unit (Genetic Operations Linking DNA). “This [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Martin Muniz, 41, for the murder of four people and severely injuring an 8-year-old female on Mack Court. “Words fall short in describing the barbaric actions committed by this individual. This heartless [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Andre Lovett, 19, Roderick Coleman, 20, Tanell Matthews-Vance, 19, Ronald Gonzalez, 19, and Keanu Green, 22, for 13 aggravated robberies in five cities over the course of two months. Two juvenile males were previously charged [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that former East Cleveland police officers Von Harris, 53, and Demarkco Johnson, 29, pleaded guilty for accepting bribes in summer of 2018. “Police officers are held to a higher standard and these officers violated the oath they swore to uphold. We are [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that a Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment charging Abijah Cummings-Byrd, 20, Christopher West, 34, James Dvorak, 36, Matthew Hammad, 23, Carson Rauch, 24, and Kennith Hyatt, 23, for child exploitation charges. “I am incredibly proud of our Ohio Internet Crimes [...]

CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced that the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office’s (CCPO) G.O.L.D. Unit (Genetic Operations Linking DNA) will now use genealogical testing for current unsolved violent crimes in Cuyahoga County. “To all law enforcement agencies across Cuyahoga County, if you have an unsolved violent crime that has [...]