Police Section :: Page 28

• 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.

• Bakari indicted on drug charges, sought by police

  By Lauren HeatonMay 8, 2008

  

  Yellow Springs police, the Greene County Prosecutor and the Greene County Agencies for Combined Enforcement (A.C.E.) announced at a press conference on Friday, May 2, that a Greene County grand jury has indicted former Yellow Springs resident Umoja Iddi Bakari with 22 counts related to his running a drug ring between Columbus and Yellow Springs.