Attorney for Dunbar football player: ‘The helmet is not a weapon’
The defense attorney for the Dunbar High School football player accused of head-butting an official during a game says he doesn’t believe a helmet is a weapon and that he has not been presented decisive evidence that shows the official suffered a concussion…
Accused driver in officer-involved shooting found not guilty
Antwaun Brown, 32, was found not guilty of felonious assault by a jury today. Brown’s attorney spoke with this news organization following the verdict. “In the absence of the video, God knows how this would have turned out. Because each of the police got up there and said something to the effect that he was accelerating, I heard the engine rev, I think it was deliberate…
NEW TWIST: Imprisoned Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian wins appeal for early release
Former Oregon District and Dayton Mall restaurant owner Eva Christian has served more than eight years of a nine-year prison sentence in part for her actions on Christmas Eve 2009, when she set her own Miami Twp. restaurant on fire as part of a scheme to collect insurance money…
Supreme Court of Ohio – 3-26-2019 – Case No. 2017-1691 State v. Christian
Kettering man sentenced on drug charge; rape, abduction counts dropped
A Kettering man was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for felony marijuana possession, but rape, abduction, felonious assault and cruelty to animals charges were dismissed because of what the defendant’s parents said were lies from an “insanely jealous” woman…
Re-sentencing hearing set for former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian
Former Oregon District and Dayton Mall restaurant owner Eva Christian has served more than eight years of a nine-year prison sentence in part for her actions on Christmas Eve 2009, when she set her own Miami Twp. restaurant on fire as part of a scheme to collect insurance money. But in July, Christian won an appeals-court ruling that could set her free early, sometime before her scheduled release date of May 8, 2021…
Imprisoned restaurant owner appeals to Ohio Supreme Court
The attorney for imprisoned Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to review her case in an attempt to have her most serious conviction thrown out…
Dayton restaurant owner could get early release after jailed for setting her own building on fire in 2009
Eva Christian, former owner of an Oregon District and Dayton Mall restaurant, was jailed in 2009 for setting her own business on fire and more than eight years later she may receive early release…
Former restaurant owner asks judges to overturn conviction
The attorney for former restaurant owner Eva Christian — who has served more than three years of a nine-year prison sentence — filed new documents with the Ohio Second District Court of Appeals on Thursday seeking to throw out her most serious felony conviction and get her sentence reduced…
Prosecutors seek to restore restaurant owner’s full prison term
Prosecutors will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to reinstate the most serious felony conviction of former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian, who is serving a prison term for insurance fraud-related crimes…
Infamous Eva Christian case closed after deportation confirmed
A more than a decade-old story involving a former Dayton restaurateur’s journey through the criminal justice system seems to have come to a close in the U.S…
Restaurateur Eva Christian’s 9-year prison term unfair, attorney says
Former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian should have her prison sentence reduced because she had already served the entirety of the terms of the lesser offenses when she was re-sentenced last year, her attorney said in court documents filed with the Ohio 2nd District Court of Appeals…
Mumaw sentenced to prison
Rossburg man was sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Shelby County Common Pleas Court for his role in the death of Dave Borchers…
Suppression motion denied in menacing case in Hillsboro court
A motion to suppress in an aggravated menacing case was tentatively overruled following a hearing in the Hillsboro Municipal Court on Thursday…
Former Dunbar High School player found guilty of felony assault against referee
A Montgomery County Juvenile Court judge found a former Dunbar High School football player guilty of a felony level assault charge. Judge Helen Wallace released her decision Friday afternoon. Video from last fall shows the player headbutting referee Scott Bistrek…
Re-sentencing hearing set for former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian
Former Oregon District and Dayton Mall restaurant owner Eva Christian has served more than eight years of a nine-year prison sentence in part for her actions on Christmas Eve 2009, when she set her own Miami Twp. restaurant on fire as part of a scheme to collect insurance money. But in July, Christian won an appeals-court ruling that could set her free early, sometime before her scheduled release date of May 8, 2021…
Teen sentenced after being accused of head-butting a referee
The former Dunbar football player accused of head-butting a referee during a high school football game over a year ago was sentenced on Thursday. The teen was convicted on a single count of felonious assault, and he was sentenced to six months probation…
Wright-Patt reservist sentenced for on-base Christmas party sex crime
The Air Force reservist who pleaded guilty to a Christmas party sex crime at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison in Dayton’s U.S. District Court…
WPAFB sex crime victim ‘thanks’ assailant; sentencing Dec. 27
The victim of a December 2015 sexual assault at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base mockingly thanked Kyle Jordan during Thursday’s sentencing hearing…
Supreme Court to rule on Eva Christian case
The Ohio Supreme Court will decide how much more time former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian will remain behind bars. The state’s highest court has accepted an appeal from the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office and has granted prosecutors’ request to postpone Christian’s re-sentencing until the supreme court issues its ruling. …
3:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, 2014
Prosecutors seek to restore restaurant owner’s full prison term
Prosecutors will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to reinstate the most serious felony conviction of former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian, who is serving a prison term for insurance fraud-related crimes. The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office filed a notice of appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court last week seeking to overturn …
12:00 a.m. Monday, Aug. 18, 2014
Dayton restaurant owner’s most serious felony conviction overturned
An appeals court on Friday threw out the most serious felony conviction and reduced the severity of two other counts against former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian, who has already served two years of a nine-year prison sentence after her conviction on five insurance-fraud-related felonies. The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office …
5:37 p.m. Friday, June 20, 2014
Judges question Christian’s prison sentence
A three-judge panel of the Ohio 2nd District Court of Appeals expressed skepticism this morning over some aspects of former Dayton restaurant owner Eva Christian’s five felony convictions and subsequent nine-year prison sentence. Appeals judges Jeffrey E. Froehlich, Mary E. Donovan and Michael T. Hall questioned whether prosecutors proved all …
1:04 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Convicted restaurant owner should stay in prison, prosecutors say
Each time Miami Twp. fire investigators and insurance adjusters returned to Cena Brazilian Steakhouse in Miami Twp. to investigate a 2009 vandalism complaint by its owner, Eva Christian, they discovered escalating amounts of damage to the place that wasn’t there on previous visits, according to Montgomery County prosecutors, who this …
4:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, 2013
Split verdict in shots fired at Xenia hoops game
A 19-year-old Springfield man has been convicted on one charge and exonerated on another stemming from shots fired outside a high school basketball game last December. A Greene County Common Pleas jury on Tuesday afternoon found Kendrick Stroder guilty of having a firearm on school property, which is a fifth-degree degree felony, and found him not guilty of discharging the firearm on school grounds.