Home » CourtsLoading…BOWLING GREEN — A Grand Rapids, Ohio, man was indicted by a Wood County grand jury for allegedly soliciting sex online from an undercover sheriff’s deputy posing as a young girl.Paul D. Emans, 65, was indicted on one count of importuning, a fifth-degree felony. He is to be arraigned Oct. 28 before Wood [...]

Bergrin is representing himself in the trial, which stems from his 2009 arrest in what the government claims was a racketeering enterprise involving drugs, prostitution, money laundering and witness tampering.Those charges were severed by a federal judge, and this trial will focus solely on the murder of Deshawn “Kemo” McCray, a government informant who was [...]

Several other projects used to address Toledo’s sex trafficking issue were addressed at the eighth-annual Human Trafficking, Prostitution and Sex Work Conference hosted by UT last Thursday and Friday.The conference established a meeting place for experts and professionals to share and develop ideas, research and solutions for Toledo’s sex trade problem, according to the conference’s [...]

Fritzie would tell you lots of things. After his career ended, he was still at it –telling lots of things to lots of people as a car salesman. Floyd Mayweather tells you lots of things too. He smirks and shrugs his shoulders and hasn’t the faintest feeling of regret for what he did, least of [...]

The goal is to raise money by spreading the word to other students. The funds raised will go to The Daughter Project, a non-profit organization in Northwest Ohio that is preparing to build and operate a recovery home for girls who have been rescued from sex traffickers.“It gives us all a choice to represent someone [...]

We focus on educating the Toledo community on sex trafficking, the alarming number of victims trafficked in Toledo and important preventative measures that must be taken in order to decrease these numbers.This past summer I had an amazing opportunity to work with a sex trafficking preventative organization in Goa, India. Part of the journey to [...]

According to the indictment, Mr. Wolever is charged with a shooting that night in which an on-duty firefighter was struck, but not injured, by a ricocheting bullet. The incident occurred about 10:20 p.m. at Station 6 at 642 Starr Ave.The same station was shot at for a first time on Sept. 21. In that incident, [...]

The mayhem started on Sept. 21 when two gunshots were fired at Station 6 just before 4:30 p.m. One bullet pierced a glass window and the second bullet struck a wall, according to a search warrant. A witness told investigators that a silver Jeep Wrangler, driven by a white man, about 6-feet tall with a [...]

TOLEDO,OH – (WTOL) Former Toledo Fire Inspector Kevin Wolever was fired by the city Tuesday.  Wolever is accused of shooting at several Toledo area fire stations, wounding one person, and leaving a propane cylinder and charcoal outside another station. According to records released Tuesday, Wolever violated sick time rules in April and August of 2011, but [...]

FOX Toledo has learned Wolever admitted he went to a strip club one day last month and went home to take a four-hour nap another day instead of performing his taxpayer-funded duties as a city fire inspector.According to a Sept. 21 memo, fire department administrators had started formal disciplinary proceedings against Wolever. That same day, [...]

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