Police Section :: Page 16

• Yellow Springs police officer Naomi Penrod charges discrimination

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 24, 2016

  

  Yellow Springs Police Sergeant Naomi Penrod has filed a charge of employment discrimination against the Village of Yellow Springs.

• Oh, deer. Guess what’s for dinner?

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanFebruary 18, 2016

  

  On Jan. 8, at 2:30 a.m., a motorist struck and killed a deer on Xenia Avenue. The officer who responded attended not only to the frazzled driver but also to the unfortunate deer, which was dead upon impact. The officer moved it from the shoulder to the berm, but what to do with the carcass?

• BCI’s fact finding in misconduct charges is finished

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  The fact-finding investigation by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, or BCI, into alleged misconduct by a longtime Yellow Springs police officer has ended and the results turned over to a prosecutor.

• Village puts Nipper on leave during investigation

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 30, 2015

  

  Longtime Yellow Springs Police Officer Dennis Nipper was placed on administrative leave on Dec. 22 pending the completion of an investigation.

• Police alert villagers to scam calls

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 23, 2015

  

  Villagers should ignore scam calls reportedly from the IRS.

• House at Riding Center destroyed by gas explosion

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 23, 2015

  

  An uninhabited house on the property of the Riding Center exploded from a propane leak on the property this morning.

• Man files false report of knifing

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 30, 2015

  

  After two days of investigation, the Yellow Springs Police Department determined that the Sept. 28 report of a knifing was unfounded.

• Man stabbed at Gaunt Park early Monday morning

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 28, 2015

  

  A Yellow Springs resident was stabbed several times while walking in Gaunt Park in the early morning hours Monday, Sept. 28.

• Deceased man identified

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 24, 2015

  

  Yellow Springs police confirmed that the body of a local man was found dead this morning in a car parked on Winter Street. The death appeared to be from natural causes.

• Local officer cleared of charges

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 30, 2015

  

  During last week’s trial in the Greene County Court of Common Pleas, a Springfield prosecutor asked a jury to find Yellow Springs Police Sergeant Naomi Penrod guilty of two criminal charges — assault and interfering with civil rights — following a November 5 incident in which Penrod forcibly took a camera away from a villager attempting to videotape an encounter with police.