Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
The Cincinnati Police Department's latest Hyde Park neighborhood report shows total Part 1 crime fell nearly 51% compared to 2025, but violent crime doubled from 5 to 10 incidents, driven by a spike in strangulations and robberies.
Public Safety
The Cincinnati Police Department's latest Hyde Park neighborhood report shows total Part 1 crime fell nearly 51% compared to 2025, but violent crime doubled from 5 to 10 incidents, driven by a spike in strangulations and robberies.
The Cincinnati Police Department's latest Hyde Park neighborhood report shows total Part 1 crime fell nearly 51% compared to 2025, but violent crime doubled from 5 to 10 incidents, driven by a spike in strangulations and robberies.
Public Safety
Oakley's year-to-date crime increase has moderated from 41% to 31%, with the most recent 28-day period showing a 30% drop in incidents, but the neighborhood has now recorded two homicides in 2026 after zero in all of 2025.
Public Safety
Hamilton County Auditor Jessica E. Miranda warns Hyde Park, Oakley and Mount Lookout residents about an AI-generated YouTube video falsely claiming a federal property tax freeze exists for seniors, directing them to request a nonexistent form from their county auditor.
Public Safety
Kianna McMeans, 38, of East Price Hill faces child endangering and obstructing official business charges after police say she used children to shoplift from Dick's Sporting Goods at Kenwood Towne Centre, then fled officers and crashed with the kids still in the car.
Public Safety
All three women charged with murdering 7-year-old William Evans at a Madison Road home in Oakley pleaded not guilty Saturday as the boy's grandmother revealed he had autism and ADHD and was isolated from family for nine months before his death.
Public Safety
Butler County Prosecutor Mike Gmoser disputes the Bunnell family's claim that upgrading Kirby Rankin's January assault charges to felonies would have kept him jailed and prevented 7-year-old William Evans's death in Oakley.
Public Safety
A Hamilton County judge set $1 million bonds for Kaitlin Evans, Nessa Keaney and Kirby Rankin, each charged with murder and child endangerment in the death of 7-year-old William Evans, after a detective testified to months of severe abuse at an Oakley home.
Public Safety
Three women, including the boy's mother, were arraigned on murder and child endangering charges in the death of 7-year-old William Evans, found bound with duct tape in a closet at a Madison Road home in Oakley; a detective testified the abuse lasted more than two months.
Public Safety
Cincinnati police are investigating the homicide of a juvenile boy found dead inside an Oakley home on the 2800 block of Madison Road on Aug. 6; three people are in custody for questioning but no arrests or charges have been filed.
Public Safety
Cincinnati police are investigating after a fraudster posing as a public defender convinced an 86-year-old woman with dementia that her grandson was in jail, drove her to a Fifth Third Bank branch on Beechmont Avenue and walked away with $10,000 in cash.
Public Safety
Cincinnati Police are asking east-side residents to help identify the driver of a black Chrysler 300 who stripped all four tires and rims from a parked vehicle on July 27, the latest property crime tip request as Oakley's year-to-date thefts run nearly 41% above last year.
Public Safety
Sergio Velasco-Cortes, 42, owner of Ibiza Restaurant and Lounge in Oakley, pleaded guilty Aug. 5 in federal court to cocaine trafficking conspiracy and stolen vehicle charges, facing a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison.
Public Safety
Hyde Park's year-to-date violent crime has risen 125% to nine incidents, with a July 26 strangulation on Madison Road the latest addition, even as total Part 1 crime has dropped nearly 50% from 2025.
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