“These items, which are often used for illicit purposes and can lead to unsafe conditions in the jail, were successfully seized before they could cause harm,” police said on Facebook.

Contraband homemade alcohol is being cited as the source of botulism that sent at least four inmates from the Belmont Correctional Institution to a hospital in Columbus. The inmates who drank the ...

I may have to knuckle under on this issue. Because of the geographic location where I’ve done 90 percent of my backpacking in the high, fairly windy mountains of the Pacific Northwest I’ve long been ...

LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office discovered homemade alcohol and other contraband items in the county jail Wednesday. According to a Facebook post, during routine ...

LORAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - The Lorain County Sheriff’s Office is cracking down on contraband. “I talked with Sheriff Hall, and he asked me, you know, what I thought would be good to start the year ...