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Stryker Police Sergeant Steve Mendez was rec­og­nized Mon­day for catch­ing a pair of sus­pects in a string of break-ins. Mendez received a cer­tifi­cate of com­men­da­tion for out­stand­ing ser­vice at Monday’s coun­cil meet­ing. Sergeant Mendez said that he and Rea­gan, his K9 part­ner, assist other police agen­cies in Williams County. He …

On Mon­day after­noon, the folks who run Eagle Rock Golf Course had to deal with fig­ur­ing out just how to get a golf cart out of a pond at Car­pen­ter Road and East River Drive. Defi­ance Police say the cart was being oper­ated at a high rate of speed by …

A Pleas­ant Town­ship man entered into a plea agree­ment on Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 25 year old Jere­miah Mathes was arrested in May on a charge related to metham­phet­a­mine. Mathes offered to plead guilty to a level 5 felony of man­u­fac­tur­ing meth. Under terms of the plea agree­ment, two …

Another drug bust in Bryan… On Sun­day, Bryan Police arrested 19 year old Daniel Monachino of Stryker. Monachino was charged with Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana and Pos­ses­sion of Para­pher­naila. He was released after pro­cess­ing, and will appear in court at a future date.

A Napoleon teenager was report­edly raped early Sun­day morn­ing. Napoleon Police say the inci­dent involved a 17-year-old Napoleon girl, who says she was walk­ing south in the 700 block of Daggett Drive early Sun­day morn­ing, between 1 and 1:30AM, when she was forced to the ground and raped. Only a …

Williams County Sheriff’s Deputies made an arrest last night. 36 year old Kevin Fos­ter of Mont­pe­lier was nabbed on a felony war­rant on an indict­ment out of the Williams County Com­mon Pleas Court, with the orig­i­nal charge being listed as fail­ure to notify a change of address. No addi­tional infor­ma­tion …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues today into the death of a Bryan woman, who was killed early Sun­day morn­ing on U.S. 6 in Williams County. 34 year old Melody Bridges, a pas­sen­ger on a motor­cy­cle dri­ven by 37 year old Solomon Meade, also of Bryan, was pro­nounced dead at the scene of …

A con­fronta­tion with a freight train left two men lucky to escape with only minor injuries Sun­day morn­ing. The acci­dent hap­pened yes­ter­day just before 6AM in DeKalb County at County Road 47, when 21 year old David Albert of But­ler tried to cross the tracks as the cross­ing arms were …

Bryan Police made an arrest for drink­ing and dri­ving over the week­end. Early Sat­ur­day morn­ing, just after 1AM, police pulled over 59 year old Jerry R. Caswell of South Lynn Street in Bryan. Caswell was arrested, and charged with OVI. After pro­cess­ing, he was released. No other details have been …

Williams County Sheriff’s Deputies made 2 arrests over the week­end. 28 year old Travis Rath of ALL-verton was charged with Dis­or­derly per­sist­ing while intox­i­cated and a pro­ba­tion vio­la­tion. Rath was taken to CCNO. In a seper­ate inci­dent, 25 year old Kara Jack­son of Edon was charged with one count of …