Articles About Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation

• BREAKING | Bleything indicted for murder, assault, other charges

  By Reilly DixonMarch 28, 2024

  

  On Thursday, March 28, the Yellow Springs Police Department served Jackson Isaiah Bleything, 22, with an indictment in connection to a fatal shooting that occurred in Yellow Springs on Thursday, March 14.

• EXTENDED COVERAGE | March 14 homicide upheaves Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonMarch 24, 2024

  

  Following a four-day manhunt, and amid an ongoing investigation by the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, or BCI, Jackson Isaiah Bleything, a Springfield resident and 2020 graduate of Yellow Springs High School, was taken into custody Sunday, March 17.

• Man arrested in connection with March 14 homicide

  By YS News StaffMarch 18, 2024

  

  A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred in Yellow Springs on Thursday, March 14. Jackson Isaiah Bleything, 22, a Springfield resident and 2020 graduate of Yellow Springs High School, was taken into custody on Sunday, March 17. 

• Plea deal reached in Clark stabbing death

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 29, 2021

  

  A Yellow Springs native accused in the stabbing death of Leonid “Lonya” Clark has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal with the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office.

• Merrick brothers indicted— Death sentence a possibility

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 13, 2017

  

  A Greene County Grand Jury has returned indictments of aggravated murder, murder, aggravated burglary, felonious assault and tampering with evidence against the two brothers charged with the killings of two local residents on Jan. 15.

• Murder case advances to grand jury

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanFebruary 16, 2017

  

  The brothers charged with the Jan. 15 murders of William “Skip” Brown and Sherri Mendenhall appeared at a preliminary hearing at the Xenia Municipal Court on Thursday.

• Two arrested in double homicide

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 2, 2017

  

  At a press conference Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 10 a.m., Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer announced the arrest of Dustin M. Merrick on two counts of aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of William “Skip” Brown and Sherri Mendenhall.

• Double homicide shocks village

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanJanuary 26, 2017

  

  The Yellow Springs community faced the most difficult of tragedies beginning on Sunday afternoon, when two local residents were discovered at a duplex located at 4444 East Enon Road, dead of apparent gunshot wounds.

• Sheriff seeks help from community in double murder

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 17, 2017

  

  The Greene County Sheriff’s Department is seeking help from villagers in solving the murders of Skip Brown and Sherri Mendenhall, who were shot and killed on Sunday.

• Trip to Walmart ends in tragedy

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 21, 2016

  

  Second article in this series: A detailed look at the events around the Crawford shooting.