Coroner’s rul­ings

The Lu­cas County Coroner has ruled in the fol­low­ing deaths:

Robert Adling­ton, 68, of Toledo, Oct. 22, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, mul­ti­ple blunt-force in­ju­ries sus­tained from mo­tor­cy­cle ac­ci­dent.

Mi­chael Bauer, 74, of Syl­va­nia, Dec. 20, at ProMed­ica Flower Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, blunt head trauma; de­ceased had an un­wit­nessed fall in care cen­ter.

James Bip­pus, 93, of Wa­ter­ville, Dec. 24, at McLaren St. Luke’s Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, blunt head trauma; de­ceased fell at the hos­pi­tal.

Ron­ald Boose, 33, of Toledo, Oct. 8, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Adam Bor­ror, 34, of Port Clin­ton, Dec. 8, at ProMed­ica Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, trau­matic brain in­ju­ries due to a ve­hi­cle ac­ci­dent.

Royce Bur­russ, 20, of Toledo, Nov. 2, at Univer­sity of Toledo Med­i­cal Center. Homi­cide, gun­shot wound to the chest.

Char­les Chan­dler, 83, of Toledo, Nov. 7, at Hos­pice of North­west Ohio. Homi­cide, sep­sis with di­a­betic ke­toaci­do­sis due to un­con­trolled di­a­be­tes (no in­su­lin ad­min­is­tered for one month).

Kim­berly Ci­canese, 61, of Gib­son­burg, Ohio, Nov. 11, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, acute sub­dural he­ma­toma; de­ceased fell at home.

Ruth Cof­fey, 50, of Toledo, Nov. 12, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Brad­ley Cor­ne­lius, 59, of Toledo, June 4, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity (fen­ta­nyl, valery fen­ta­nyl, her­oin, and xy­la­zine).

Tate Demp­sey, 3 months, of Toledo, Aug. 6, in 5400 block of Whit­mer. Un­de­ter­mined, sud­den un­ex­plained in­fant death.

Keyona Drake, 28, of Yp­si­lanti, Mich., Sept. 28, at ProMed­ica Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, drown­ing; acute eth­a­nol in­tox­i­ca­tion.

Rich­ard Ed­nie, 88, of Tem­per­ance, Aug. 31. at a nurs­ing home in the 5300 block of Mitchaw, Syl­va­nia. Ac­ci­den­tal, chronic ob­struc­tive pul­mo­nary dis­ease; mul­ti­ple blunt trauma sus­tained from ve­hi­cle ac­ci­dent.

Brenda Fack­ler, 64, of Van Wert, July 4, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, sub­dural he­ma­toma with ce­re­bral edema and her­ni­a­tion due to blunt-force in­jury to the head sus­tained from mo­tor scooter ac­ci­dent.

Rachel Faulk­ner, 68, of Ore­gon, Oct. 5, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Mil­ton Fisher, 49, of Toledo, July 26, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Mi­chael Flahiff, 39, of Toledo, Nov. 11, in 6800 block of West Cen­tral. Ac­ci­den­tal, acute com­bined drug in­tox­i­ca­tion (eth­a­nol, acet­ylfen­ta­nyl, fen­ta­nyl, and diphen­hy­dramine.

Jen­na­lyn Futrell, 33, of Toledo, Oct. 15, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Joseph Gallo, 34, of Bliss­field, Mich., Nov. 17, at ProMed­ica Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, po­si­tional as­phyxia af­ter roll­over crash.

Dianne Gemle, 77, of Syl­va­nia, Oct. 17, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, hy­droc­o­done tox­ic­ity.

Luella Glas­son, 87, of Toledo, Sept. 13, at Hos­pice of North­west Ohio in 800 block of South Detroit. Ac­ci­den­tal, sub­dural he­ma­toma; de­ceased fell at home.

John Grant, 43, of Hol­land, Oct. 25, in the 7300 block of Night­in­gale, Hol­land. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Cubia Han­nah, 56, of Toledo, July 24, in 1000 block of Rad­cliff. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity (co­caine, eth­a­nol, fen­ta­nyl).

Ger­ald Hen­der­son, 31, of Find­lay, Oct. 1, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, anoxic en­ceph­a­l­op­a­thy due to com­pli­ca­tions of meth­am­phet­a­mine tox­ic­ity.

James Hogan, 36, of Toledo, Oct. 10, in unit block of Mag­yar. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity (co­caine, eth­a­nol, fen­ta­nyl).

Jayme Howard, 29, of Toledo, June 22, in 6600 block of Ban­croft. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Tho­mas Jake­way, 76, of Co­lum­bus, Sept. 25, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, dif­fuse alve­o­lar dam­age due to sub­dural he­ma­toma.

Sha­conda Jef­fer­son, 34, of Toledo, Sept. 18, in 4000 block of Cedar Point, Ore­gon. Ac­ci­den­tal, mul­ti­ple blunt-force in­ju­ries sus­tained from ve­hi­cle ac­ci­dent.

San­dra Jones, 71, of Ore­gon, Dec. 1, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, de­layed med­i­cal com­pli­ca­tions of blunt-force in­ju­ries sus­tained from ve­hi­cle ac­ci­dent.

Robert Kase­fang, 30, of Ber­key, Oct. 14, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Sta­cey Ken­nedy, 36, of Toledo, Oct. 30, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, mul­ti­ple blunt-force in­ju­ries sus­tained from ve­hi­cle ac­ci­dent.

Her­man King, 67, of Toledo, Oct. 15, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, mul­ti­ple blunt-force in­ju­ries sus­tained from be­ing struck by ve­hi­cle.

Mar­laye Law­rence, 73, of Toledo, July 14, at Ad­vanced Health­care. Homi­cide, acute chronic re­spi­ra­tory fail­ure, ven­ti­la­tor de­pen­dent; ven­ti­la­tor de­lib­er­ately shut off.

Ro­berta Loss, 93, of Syl­va­nia, July 25, at Mercy Health St. Anne Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­pli­ca­tions of mul­ti­ple frac­tures; de­ceased was struck by mo­tor ve­hi­cle.

Anne Man­ning, 41, of Toledo, Sept. 23, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity (diphen­hy­dramine, fen­ta­nyl and mor­phine).

Ant­wan McCoy, 30, of Toledo, Nov. 11, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Sui­cide, self-in­flicted gun­shot wound of the head.

Gre­gory McNulty, 68, of Hol­land, Nov. 16, in 1200 block of Clar­ion, Hol­land. Sui­cide, self-in­flicted gun­shot wound to the head.

Karen Miller, 69, of Toledo, Oct. 19, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, squa-

mous cell car­ci­noma of lung; de­ceased was dropped by EMS dur­ing trans­port.

Steven Mur­phy, 39, of Morenci, Mich., Sept. 28, at ProMed­ica Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Sui­cide, anoxic en­ceph­a­l­op­a­thy; de­ceased hanged him­self.

Robert New­house, 29, of Toledo, Sept. 27, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity with fen­ta­nyl the prin­ci­pal agent.

Eli­jah North­cutt, 25, of Toledo, Sept. 22, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Sui­cide, ve­r­a­pamil over­dose.

Roland Oster­man, 80, of Ot­tawa Lake, Mich., Sept. 5, at ProMed­ica Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, dif­fuse alve­o­lar dam­age due to mul­ti­ple blunt trauma sus­tained from vehicle ac­ci­dent.

Mi­chael Pan­nell, 40, of Toledo, Oct. 22, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Ron­ald Pfund, 83, of Mon­roe, Nov. 9, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Sui­cide, self-in­flicted gun­shot wound to the head.

Keith Rambo, Jr., 37, of Toledo, Nov. 11, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined eth­a­nol and fen­ta­nyl us­age.

John Sinkowski, 48, of Syl­va­nia, Oct. 6, in the 1200 block of Cor­po­rate, Hol­land. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

Brian Smith, 31, of Toledo, Nov. 21, in 800 block of Blum. Homi­cide, mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

Tay­shaun Smith-Davis, 14, Oct. 26, in the 1600 block of Pine­wood. Homi­cide, gun­shot wound to neck.

Steven Smol­en­ski, 67, of Toledo, Nov. 7, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, chok­ing; de­ceased choked on food.

Steven Squire, 35, of Toledo, Sept. 28, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity (co­caine and fen­ta­nyl).

Dol­ores Stanisze­w­ski, 92, of Toledo, Nov. 18, at Wolf Creek Nurs­ing Home. Ac­ci­den­tal, pneu­mo­nia due to com­pli­ca­tions of blunt head trauma; de­ceased fell at home.

Eliz­a­beth Tar­busk­ov­ich, 30, of Oak Har­bor, Ohio, Nov. 9, in 2000 block of Madi­son. Ac­ci­den­tal, acute com­bined drug in­tox­i­ca­tion (dex­tromethor­phan and fen­ta­nyl).

Ricky Thacker, 63, of Toledo, Sept. 6, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity.

Michelle Tho­mas, 53, of Toledo, July 25, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, fen­ta­nyl tox­ic­ity.

James Thorpe, 62, of Toledo, Dec. 5, at ProMed­ica Toledo Hos­pi­tal. Ac­ci­den­tal, sub­dural he­ma­toma; de­ceased fell down stairs.

Di­ana Tip­ping, 61, of Per­rys­burg, Dec. 8, at Mercy Health St. Vin­cent Med­i­cal Center. Ac­ci­den­tal, sub­dural he­ma­toma due to a fall at home.

Bobby Ty­son, 27, of Toledo, Nov. 4, in 2600 block of Foraker. Sui­cide, de­ceased hanged him­self.

Sh­aquena Wat­son, 35, of Toledo, Dec. 1, in the 1400 block of West Del­a­ware. Sui­cide, as­phyxia; de­ceased hanged her­self.

David Wet­zel, 57, of Toledo, Nov. 4, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity (fen­ta­nyl and co­caine).

Gary Witcher, 39, of Toledo, Nov. 5, in the 2100 block of Park­wood. Homi­cide. mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds.

Elmer Yeary, 43, of Toledo, Aug. 10, at home. Sui­cide, de­ceased hanged him­self.

Jay Zie­lin­ski, 41, of Toledo, June 10, at home. Ac­ci­den­tal, com­bined drug tox­ic­ity (acetyl fen­ta­nyl and fen­ta­nyl).

Res­tau­rant in­spec­tions

Re­cently re­leased in­spec­tion re­ports of Lu­cas County food-ser­vice op­er­a­tions.

No vi­o­la­tions:

Fire­fly, 20 N. St. Clair, in­spected Jan. 29.

Al­lure’ Hookrah Lounge, 2903 Dorr, in­spected Feb. 9.

Milk­ster, 5333 Mon­roe, in­spected Jan. 22.

E’s Pizza & Wings, 2113 W. Syl­va­nia, in­spected Feb. 24.

Tim Hor­ton’s, 6815 W. Cen­tral, in­spected March 3.

Univer­sity of Toledo - Roll­ing Rocket Trailer, 2801 W. Ban­croft, in­spected March 3.

Vi­o­la­tions:

Bravo!, 5001 Mon­roe, in­spected Feb. 8.

• Cooked on­ions in a cooler were hold­ing at an un­safe tem­per­a­ture.

• Two chem­i­cal spray bot­tles and a plas­tic con­tainer un­der the three-bay sink lacked la­bels.

Wendy’s, 3124 Mon­roe, in­spected Feb. 19.

• Chicken hold­ing on time ba­sis in drawer was held past the writ­ten time. Other foods were placed in an­other drawer with­out a re­quired time mark­ing.

• Food em­ploy­ees failed to wash hands be­fore don­ning gloves.

• Qua­ternary am­mo­nium san­i­tizer in the prep line wipe bucket and the three-bay sink’s san­i­tizer bay was too weak.

Le­roy & Mar­ga­rets Suds and Grub, 5131 Heat­h­er­downs, in­spected Feb. 19.

• The bar hand-wash­ing sink was im­prop­erly used as a dump sink.

• A pan with flour res­i­due was stored im­prop­erly in the back hand-wash­ing sink.

• Mul­ti­ple re­frig­er­ated foods had un­read­able date mark­ings.

Fron­tera, 5375 Air­port, in­spected Feb. 25.

• Foods in prep-top reach-in cooler lacked cov­ers.

Chos­ica Res­tau­rant, 3065 West Ban­croft, in­spected Feb. 19.

• Raw shell eggs were stored im­prop­erly above pro­duce.

Snap­pers Sea­food & Chicken, 1530 South Byrne, in­spected March 3.

• No per­son-in-charge qual­i­fied to di­rect traf­fic of food was pres­ent dur­ing in­spec­tion.

• Food in reach-in cooler be­neath warm­ing sta­tion lacked cov­ers.

• No san­i­tizer bucket was set up in the fa­cil­ity.

McDon­ald’s, 1405 South Byrne, in­spected March 3.

• No per­son-in-charge qual­i­fied to di­rect traf­fic of food was pres­ent dur­ing in­spec­tion.

MBS Food Ser­vice, 1401 Ab­bott, in­spected March 3.

• The grill top was dirty.

but pro­grams like drug court have worked to pro­ac­tively ad­dress some of the un­der­ly­ing is­sues.

Other courts across the state are mov­ing to­ward in­clud­ing a men­tal health court, sim­i­lar to the drug court’s op­er­a­tion. While Ful­ton County does not have one yet, Mr. Ken­nedy said he be­lieves court lead­ers will even­tu­ally fol­low that path, too.

“There’s so many peo­ple who may not be le­gally sub­ject to in­sti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion by a court but yet, they don’t have ac­cess to the med­i­ca­tion that they need. Or, they stop tak­ing it,” Mr. Ken­nedy said. “These peo­ple are go­ing through a re­volv­ing door. Men­tal health courts are try­ing to ad­dress that sit­u­a­tion.”

Along with the team of at­tor­neys he’s worked with and the judges he’s ap­peared be­fore, Mr. Ken­nedy said he also works with some of the top in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

“I at­trib­ute much of the suc­cess I’ve had at tri­als to a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the po­lice. So that’s been an im­por­tant part of my role as pros­e­cu­tor is to work with po­lice to try to build strong cases and pre­pare ev­ery case as if it’s go­ing to trial,” he said.

One of his most chal­leng­ing cases was the cap­i­tal mur­der case of James D. Wor­ley, 61, of Delta, who was found guilty of ab­duct­ing Sierah Joughin, 20, of Meta­mora, as she was bi­cy­cling home along County Road 6. Her hand­cuffed body was later found in a corn­field.

It is some­times dif­fi­cult to sep­a­rate per­sonal emo­tions in cases, par­tic­u­larly ones that are so graphic, like Wor­ley’s.

“It’s very hard to do. You just have to fo­cus on the law and the ev­i­dence and do your best for the vic­tims to seek justice. You have to keep your eyes on that goal of keep­ing the com­mu­nity safe,” Mr. Ken­nedy said.

Mr. Ha­sel­man was the lead pros­e­cu­tor in the case, but to­gether, he and Mr. Ken­nedy worked to pre­pare the ev­i­dence, which ul­ti­mately led to a guilty ver­dict in 2018.

“His years of ex­pe­ri­ence and pro­vid­ing cer­tain in­sights were in­valu­able,” Mr. Ha­sel­man said. “He was a crit­i­cal mem­ber of the team in un­der­stand­ing the sci­en­tific ev­i­dence and ba­si­cally lead­ing the ques­tions of the ex­pert wit­nesses. He did a great job in that trial.”

Con­tact Alli­son Dunn at

adunn@the­blade.com or

on Twit­ter @Alli­sonDBlade.

Tom Betti said. “ODJFS has im­ple­mented new fraud de­tec­tion meth­ods and [is] part­ner­ing with pri­vate-sec­tor ex­perts.”

Since mid-Jan­u­ary, the de­part­ment has re­ceived more than 182,000 re­ports of iden­tity theft and fraud, with more than 66,000 of those com­ing from peo­ple who re­ceived 1099-G forms in­di­cat­ing that tax­able ben­e­fits had been fraud­u­lently is­sued in their names dur­ing 2020.

Also, as of Thurs­day, 9,200 “em­ploy­ers,” in­volv­ing 31,000 records, had re­ported fraud­u­lent claims.

“We re­ally need to ad­dress this as a 21st-cen­tury prob­lem, one that can be pre­vented with

tech­nol­ogy and not by mak­ing peo­ple go in per­son to pres­ent their ID,” state Sen. Teresa Fe­dor (D., Toledo) said. “There are ways through tech­nol­ogy for some­one to show they re­ally are who they say they are.”

She, like fel­low Sena­tors Reineke and Hack­ett, is a mem­ber of the Unem­ploy­ment Com­pen­sa­tion Mod­ern­i­za­tion and Im­prove­ment Coun­cil that is look­ing into the re­cent prob­lems plagu­ing the sys­tem.

Jeff Ficke, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor with the fi­nan­cial firm Rus­sell Al­len Part­ners, is part of a team of pri­vate-sec­tor ex­perts brought in by Gov. Mike DeWine to help with tech­no­log­i­cal and cus­tomer ser­vice is­sues with Ohio’s un­em­ploy-

ment sys­tem.

“With the sit­u­a­tion that we find our­selves in with this pan­demic and the un­prece­dented vol­ume in­creases that we’ve seen ... we have to ac­tu­ally uti­lize ap­pro­pri­ately tech­nol­ogy and big data to help us ad­dress some of those is­sues, and that is an ac­tive part of the early plan,” he re­cently told the coun­cil.

Those wish­ing to re­port fraud may do so by vis­it­ing un­em­ploy­ment.ohio.gov, click­ing on the red “Re­port Iden­tity Theft” but­ton, and then fol­low­ing in­struc­tions or by call­ing 833-658-0394.

Con­tact Jim Pro­vance
at jpro­vance@the­blade.com.

among calls that both po­lice and trained cri­sis pro­fes­sion­als could han­dle to­gether.

Nearly two-thirds of re­spon­dents felt that men­tal health cri­ses and sui­cide threats not in­volv­ing re­ports of weap­ons don’t re­quire any po­lice re­sponse, ac­cord­ing to the sur­vey con­ducted by the Saun­ders PR Group.

The firm’s $30,000 con­tract in­cluded 12 fo­cus groups, six

town hall gath­er­ings, and a sur­vey of about 4,000 peo­ple.

“There’s not a mes­sage of anti-po­lic­ing,” firm founder Gayle Saun­ders told Co­lum­bus city coun­cil re­cently.

“What we heard from the com­mu­nity is there’s an op­por­tu­nity to ac­tu­ally bring some re­lief to the of­fi­cers and what they have to do in the com­mu­nity,” Ms. Saun­ders said.

City lead­ers have pushed for changes to the po­lice de­part­ment for years but in­ten­si­fied ef­forts af­ter the Decem­ber kill­ing of An­dre Hill, who was Black, by a white of­fi­cer who has since been fired.

Last month, city coun­cil agreed to fund the next class of po­lice re­cruits fol­low­ing a de­bate over the fu­ture of law en­force­ment that would have put the class on hold.

Her body was found about a week later near a Cin­cin­nati bridge. The county cor­o­ner said she died of stab wounds.

Nylo Lat­timore’s body hasn’t been re­cov­ered de­spite a search of 180 miles of the Ohio river by po­lice and vol­un­teers.

Po­lice say the child’s blood was found on a blan­ket re­cov­ered with his mother’s body and his stroller was found in the river nearby.

Ham­il­ton County pros­e­cu­tors ear­lier an­nounced a death pen­alty in­dict­ment against 21-year-old De­sean Brown, who is charged with two counts of ag­gra­vated mur­der as well as abuse of a corpse and ev­i­dence-tam­per­ing. He ear­lier pleaded not guilty ear­lier to charges in the case.