Unhappy Tenants Accuse Landlord of Murder
Some unhappy tenants took their conflict with their landlord to the next level on Wednesday evening.
The landlord contacted police to report the tenants had called her at work and sent a 2-page letter containing inflammatory accusations.
She said the tenants were not living up to the terms of their contract, and she planned to evict them. In the letter, the tenants claim the landlord had stabbed and murdered someone. However, there were no direct threats to her.
Officers advised her on the process of getting a protection order.
Hazardous Home Discovered on 8th Street
Officers responding to a report of an open door on an empty 8th Street home discovered hazardous living conditions just before 9 pm.
The neighbor advised the owner was in a nursing home, so officers went in the open back door to check things out.
However, the house was overcrowded, cluttered, and extremely unsanitary, and it was not safe to check the entire residence. Police resecured the door and contacted the health department.
Convicted ID Thief Busted For Violating Protection Order
A convicted identity thief with a long history of arrests and a history of not showing up for court found herself behind bars on Saturday after a traffic stop on 17th Street.
When police pulled over a vehicle, they discovered Caroline Brunner, 35, who had an open warrant for violating a protection order.
This was her 14th trip to the Scioto County Jail, her previous arrests include theft, failure to appear, contempt, domestic violence, identity theft, theft by deception, assault, criminal trespass, and multiple counts of probation violation.
Back in 2019, she was sentenced to probation for theft and identity fraud but failed to comply with the terms of her release on multiple occasions and served 32 days in jail for probation violation in 2020.
Officers booked her into the Scioto County Jail.
