Latest local crime and courts photos

• Photos from rape trial
  1/31/12

  Day two of the Alfredo Mario Lopez-Cruz trial. Cruz is in court for a 2005 alleged rape of a 9-year-old Hamilton girl on Father's Day. Sheriff's deputies extradited Cruz from Mexico last fall to stand trial. He has been dubbed the county's most wanted criminal for six years.

• Marcus Isreal trial
  10/25/11

  Marcus Isreal, 23, is on trial for felony murder and several other charges that resulted in the death of Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Dulle

• Drug indictment arrests
  10/12/11

  Photos of some of the suspects arrested in connection to 70 felony drug indictments issued Oct. 11, 2011. The arrests are a result of a year-long drug investigation in Hamilton, Ohio.

• Bust nets cocaine, cash
  9/1/11

  Law enforcement officials discuss the arrest of five people in connection with a drug bust of $1.2 million in drugs and $28,000 cash. The arrests are part of a year-long investigation meant to cripple what officials described as a "pipeline" of drugs through the area.

• Seized property up for auction
  9/1/11

  The Butler County Sheriff's office is auctioning off property seized in the arrest of a drug dealer, including multiple vehicles. The auction is available online at www.GovDeals.com.

• Baltimore Street Gang
  8/25/11

  Seven suspects arrested for their involvement with the Baltimore Street Gang remain behind bars following indictments by a Butler County Grand Jury.

• Butler County standoff
  8/11/11

  The Butler County Sheriff's SWAT team responded to a call just after 10 p.m. Aug. 10, 2011 saying the resident discharged a firearm inside a home in the 2300 block of Middletown Eaton Road in Madison Twp.

• Deputy laid to rest
  5/18/11

  Hundreds of police officers from the region attended funeral services for Warren County Sheriffs Sgt. Brian Dulle May 13-14. Dulle was hit and killed while deploying stop sticks to halt a fleeing driver early Tuesday morning, May 10, 2011.

• Vigil held for stabbing victims
  5/10/11

  Family, friends and co-workers attend a vigil for Kelly O'Keefe and her brother James Daniel O'Keefe at the historical Butler County Courthouse, Monday, May 9, 2011. Kelly, who works in the drug and juvenile courts, was stabbed in her home, along with her brother last Friday and they both remain hospitalized. The two were stabbed and then transported by medical helicopter to University Hospital in Cincinnati, May 6, 2011 at 5885 Judy Drive in Fairfield.

• Widmer's 3 murder trials
  5/5/11

  Follow the proceedings of the trial of Ryan Widmer, who was convicted in 2009 of murder but was later granted a new trial after jury misconduct was found. After his third trial, Widmer, 30, was convicted Feb. 15, 2011 of murdering his wife Sarah Widmer in the bathtub of their Hamilton Twp. home on August 11, 2008.

• Man charged with 'random' murder
  5/4/11

  Victor Gantt, 25, of Middletown, is escorted out of Middletown Municipal Court following his arraignment for the murder of Leroy Jones, 75, of Brentwood Street, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Police believe the slaying was a "random thing."

• Samuel Littleton sentenced
  4/14/11

  Samuel Littleton II, who is a suspect in the murder of Tiffany Brown and the ad of Richard and Gladis Russell, was captured by police in West Virginia on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. The search for the bodies of the Russells took place in Chattanooga, Tenn.

• Robbery suspect in court
  4/6/11

  Jackie Jackson Jr. was arrested after he allegedly robbed the PNC Bank at 7301Tyler's Corner Drive in West Chester Twp. and took police on a high-speed chase to Lockland Tuesday, March 29, 2011.

• Man charged with homicide
  4/4/11

  The car driven by Jennifer Bowling sits in the lot at the Hamilton Municipal garage, Monday, Apr. 4, 2011. Bowling was struck head on by another car driven by Julio Cesar Olvera-Mejia, who was charged with felony aggravated vehicular homicide after allegedly traveling left of center on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard near Linden Street and striking Bowling's 2001 Saturn.

• 2 killed in parking lot shooting
  3/12/11

  Middletown firefighters and police investigate the scene of a fatal double shooting Saturday, March 12, 2011 in the Frisch's parking lot near the intersection of Dixie Highway and S.R. 122.

• Mike Fox pleads guilty
  3/9/11

  View photos of Butler County politician Michael A. Fox. throughout his career. On Wednesday, March 9, Fox pleaded guilty on two charges - conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and filing a false tax return.

• Visitation for Tiffany Brown
  2/23/11

  The community gathered to pay respects to murder victim Tiffany L. Brown during her visitation at Bellefontaine First Church of God on Tuesday, Feb. 22.

• Rumpke landfill searched
  2/22/11

  Up to three investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation search through an area about 1 square are and approximately 15 feet deep for clues in finding a missing Bellefontaine couple on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, at the Rumpke Landfill in Colerain Twp., Hamilton County.

• Stacy Schuler in court
  7/14/11

  Stacy Schuler, a former Mason teacher, is accused of having sex with five male students in 2010. She is changing her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. View photos of Schuler in court.

• Man pleads in rape, kidnapping
  1/28/11

  William Manis of Hamilton, who was accused of holding a woman captive for 10 days and repeatedly raping her pleaded guilty as charged. Manis, 44, appeared Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 in Butler County Common Pleas Court.

• Chief Master Sgt. William C. Gurney
  1/26/11

  The former top enlisted airman of the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Chief Master Sgt. William C. Gurney, is facing trial on sexual misconduct and other allegations.

• Man on trial for cop assault
  1/27/11

  The trial of Eric German of Middletown started Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. He is accused of attacking and beating a police officer during a traffic stop July 21, 2010. German, 46, of Barnitz Street, is charged with felonious assault on a police officer, impersonating a police officer and obstruction of official business for the attack on Middletown police officer Jason Deaton.

• Memorial for 'Pops' McCray
  1/22/11

  On Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, family and friends hold a memorial for Donald Pops McCray near the spot where he was struck and killed by a police cruiser while crossing the street four years ago.

• Rev. Trammell indicted
  11/16/11

  The Rev. Raleigh Trammell turned himself in to authorities Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. He faced one count of grand theft, 25 counts of forgery, and 25 counts of tampering with government records.

• Funeral for slain deputy
  1/10/11

  The funeral for Clark County Sheriff Deputy Suzanne Waughtel Hopper took place on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. The gunman was killed, and a German Twp. police officer was wounded, in a shootout at the Enon Beach trailer park Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011.

• Pot bust victim out of hospital
  1/4/11

  A 21-year-old man facing charges after police seized 850 pounds of high-grade marijuana from a house he was renting has been released from the hospital after he was shot in the face in a home-invasion shooting.

• Bank robbed in Middletown
  12/31/10

  Police officers investigate a robbery at the U.S. Bank located at 4221 Hamilton-Middletown Rd. Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, in Liberty Twp., Ohio.

• Bank robbed in Lebanon
  12/28/10

  Police and the Warren County Sheriff's Office investigate a bank robbery reported Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010, at US Bank, 620 Columbus Ave. in Lebanon.

• Woman killed when car hits tree
  12/28/10

  The 26-year-old female driver of this 2001 Chrysler Sebring was pronounced dead at the scene when her car went off the right side of the road and struck a tree on Ohio 741, just north of Bunnel Road in Turtlecreek Twp. on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010.

• Exotic dancer in court
  4/7/11

  Kristina Hensley, 36, of Higginsport, took a deal in February, 2011, pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and failure to stop after an accident for killing Jae Cho.

• Feds raid car dealership
  12/1/10

  Officers from the Warren County Drug Task Force and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided Clark's Auto Sales at 1860 S. University Blvd. in Middletown and the owner's residence in the 6000 block of Linzie Drive in Franklin Twp. Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.