Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
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Evendale police made 204 arrests through July 2026, up 20% year-over-year, driven by a 58% surge in outstanding-warrant arrests and a fourfold increase in driving-under-suspension enforcement, even as overall crime reports fell 23%.
Public Safety
Evendale police logged a $98,500 computer scam, two OVI arrests including a wrong-way driver on I-75, a post-game assault at Queen City Sportsplex, and a road rage attack in their July 2026 monthly report.
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Evendale police have made 24 DUI arrests through July 2026, already surpassing the 16 total for all of 2025, while traffic citations have more than doubled year-over-year even as overall crime reports dropped 23%.
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A North Carolina man faces federal drug charges after the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition Task Force traced a fatal fentanyl overdose in Blue Ash to packages shipped through a darknet marketplace, with the Hamilton County crime lab confirming fentanyl in seized drugs.
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Jayon Jackson, 24, was arraigned Tuesday, July 28, on felonious assault and gun charges for the February shooting of a 15-year-old outside the King Quick Food Mart on Chesterdale Road in Sharonville; a co-defendant faces trial in August.
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Franklin Smith, 44, wanted for shooting a Covington bar security guard three times in May, was arrested without incident at a Sharonville hotel on July 24 after a SWAT tactical entry coordinated by multiple agencies including the Sharonville Police Department.
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Hamilton County's cyclospora case count rose to 23 as of Thursday, July 23, prompting the CDC to send disease detectives to Ohio for a three-week investigation into a multi-state outbreak linked to recalled Taylor Farms lettuce sold at Taco Bell and Kroger.
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ODOT will shut down three lanes of westbound I-275 between Reed Hartman Highway and the I-75 interchange starting Friday night, July 24, with the U.S. 42 on-ramp also closed through early Monday, July 27, as part of a resurfacing project.
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Sharonville has retired its CodeRed emergency alert system and switched to Alert Hamilton County, a free countywide notification platform; residents who previously used CodeRed must re-register at smart911.com/AlertHC to keep receiving warnings.
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Evendale-based Enable Injections won FDA approval for its CirCliq cancer drug injector on July 9 and is moving forward with a Springdale manufacturing center, 257 new jobs, and $124 million in regional investment.
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