Articles About crime

• Balancing a low crime rate with high policing costs

  By Megan BachmanMarch 26, 2015

  

  While last year there were 28 murders in the City of Dayton and more than 1,200 violent crimes there, violence in Yellow Springs has barely been an issue, with an average of about three violent incidents each year for the last seven.

• Yellow Springs burglaries affect cars and homes

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 20, 2014

  

  Toward the end of last week and over the weekend, several home and vehicle burglaries occurred in various locations around the village. Yellow Springs Police this week issued a warning to all villagers to keep their homes and vehicles locked at all times.

• Police story: crime and the village

  By Megan BachmanMarch 6, 2014

  

  Earlier this month two vehicles were stolen, 10 more were broken into. Last year nine local residences were burglarized. But more commonly, however, the Yellow Springs Police Department deals with complaints of barking dogs, loud music and stolen bicycles.

• Cordell guilty in Harris death

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 16, 2009

  Just before his jury trial began on Monday, July 13, former Yellow Springs resident Phillip Cordell pled guilty to the 2004 murder of local resident Timothy Harris. Cordell, 48, was sentenced to a mandatory five years in prison, with no chance for judicial release, which is the maximum sentence for his plea, according to Greene County Prosecutor Suzanne Schmidt on Tuesday.

• Tasers: effective or too easy?

  By Lauren HeatonJune 11, 2009

  Since the Yellow Springs Police Department began arming its officers with Tasers in August 2008, the stun guns have been deployed seldom and according to departmental policy, Police Chief John Grote said in a recent interview.

• Springfield man robs US Bank

  By Lauren HeatonApril 2, 2009

  Due largely to the testimony of a village resident and information from a security tape, on Tuesday, March 31, Yellow Springs police arrested a Springfield man who confessed to having robbed US Bank last week.

• Two men apprehended, confess to recent burglaries

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 8, 2009

  Yellow Springs police apprehended two Springfield men who confessed their involvement in the rash of burglaries that have been committed in the village over the past three to four months, Police Chief John Grote said on Tuesday morning.

• Drug dogs may come to YSHS

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 20, 2008

  At their Nov. 13 meeting, members of the Yellow Springs Board of Education discussed bringing in trained dogs to search for drugs in Yellow Springs High School.

• Police charge YS resident with Timothy Harris murder

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 13, 2008

  After a lengthy investigation by the Yellow Springs Police Department, the Greene County Prosecutor last week charged Phillip K. Cordell with the 2004 murder of local resident Timothy Harris.

• Village police now using Tasers

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 9, 2008

  The Yellow Springs Police Department began arming its officers with the stun guns better known as Tasers in August, and so far they have performed as they were designed, to reduce violent confrontations between officers and the public, according to Yellow Springs Police Chief John Grote.