It's pretty amazing that somebody would still items from graves in the Dayton Ohio area. Hopefully the Newcomer Cemetery will find the person and then if need be install security cameras if there's not some that are already installed.
A local family says they’re heartbroken after keepsakes were stolen from the graves of their family members.
Naomi Conley is buried next to her son Dean at Newcomers’ Cemetery, 2115 Mechanicsburg Road in Springfield. Charles Conley visits the graves often.
Last week a ceramic angel, wind chimes and LED lights were missing from the sites, Charles Conley said. He filed a report with Springfield Police.
“They’re hurting us,” his daughter Melody Kucharski said. “They’re hurting the ones that lost the loved ones.”
The family can’t believe someone would steal from a grave, she said.
“We can’t replace those,” Kucharski said of the stolen property. “Those were sent to the funeral home.”
She and her siblings surround the graves with flowers, she said, because it’s what her mother would have wanted.
“She just loved flowers,” Kucharski said.
The family suspects items might have been taken from other graves too, said Bonnie Crummie, Kucharski’s sister and the Conleys daughter.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local/springfield-family-devastated-after-items-stolen-f/nrMny/the really has not been any update from anybody from Pike County or the Atty. Gen.'s office regarding investigation of these deaths. Most likely these deaths are drug-related.
The last of several mobile homes where eight relatives were found shot to death in southern Ohio have been moved to a secure location.
The state Attorney General's Office says three Piketon-area mobile homes were moved several miles north on Thursday to an investigation command center in Waverly. The fourth was moved on Friday. Vehicles from the properties were also relocated.
Seven adults and a 16-year-old boy from the Rhoden family were found dead at the properties last month.
A coroner determined all but one had been shot repeatedly. Some also had bruising consistent with a 911 caller's description that two appeared to have been beaten
http://www.whio.com/ap/ap/ohio/last-of-several-mobile-homes-where-8-were-found-sh/nrNPs/I know Ohio is urging the public to be more aware of overdoses that are happening as a result of heroin. The biggest idea is is why people use. Whether it's drugs or alcohol there's a reason that people turn to these drugs and alcohol for relief from the pain that they're in.
Ohio is urging drug users' relatives and friends and other members of the public to know the signs of an overdose and obtain an antidote as part of a six-month awareness campaign launching Monday.
The effort targets 15 counties hit hard by overdose deaths related to fentanyl. The synthetic painkiller can be laced with heroin or disguised to look like less powerful painkillers, and its prescription form used to treat chronic pain is far more potent than heroin.
The Ohio Department of Health is encouraging drug users' loved ones to get the overdose antidote naloxone, which can be administered before emergency responders arrive. The state has taken other steps to expand naloxone availability, but this effort is aimed at people who might be shoulder to shoulder with those at risk of overdosing.
"I think we've got to get all hands on deck. We've got to do everything we can to help curb this epidemic," said Travis Bornstein, whose 23-year-old son died of a fentanyl overdose in 2014.
The resident of Uniontown in northeastern Ohio said naloxone isn't a fix-all but is a step in tackling a much larger problem. His family is trying to help others struggling.
Truly I think they need to go after the drug dealers that are actually supply in the drugs to people who are in a desperate situation. Some people don't know how to deal with their issues their problems. So maybe they need to double the fines in the jail time that a drug dealer may face a thorough caught dealing drugs. Heroin is an epidemic across the country and it's really bad here in the Dayton Ohio area.
http://www.whio.com/ap/ap/ohio/ohio-urges-drug-users-loved-ones-to-get-overdose-a/nrNCn/
