MIDDLETOWN, OH (FOX19) – A 30-year-old Middletown man knocking on doors and claiming to be looking for a woman named Brooke probably won’t be finding her anytime soon.

On Friday morning the Middletown Division of Police received two calls, one at 08:40 and another at 10:17, that a man was knocking on doors asking for a female named Brooke or Molly. The callers said the man was acting suspicious and in one case he was knocking on the back door. One of the callers wrote down the man’s license plate number and officers found the car nearby.

The driver of the vehicle turned out to be Christopher Burkhardt of Bavarian Drive.  

“When we stopped him he was still claiming to be looking for a girl he had met recently but wasn’t sure where she lived”, Lieutenant Walter Scott Reeve said. “When we arrested him we found screw drivers in his pocket, a black toboggan hat, and heroin in his cigarette pack.”

XENIA, OH (FOX19) – The third of three people charged in a tree-trimming scam that targeted the elderly in Butler, Greene, Franklin, and Montgomery counties was sentenced Thursday.

Jason Johnson, of Clark County, Ohio was given eight years in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $31,307. The case represents a collaboration of the Attorney General's Office Economic Crimes Division, the Greene County Prosecuting Attorney, and other law enforcement agencies.

"This is exactly the type of case I envisioned when we created the Economic Crimes Division," said Attorney General Mike DeWine. "We are putting resources from the Attorney General's Office together with local cops and prosecutors to put scammers who prey on seniors behind bars."

HAMILTON, OH (FOX19) – A violent robbery on Hamilton’s west side resulted in three men being arrested just blocks away.

At about 2:45 pm, the Hamilton Police dispatch received a 911 call reporting a robbery in the 600 Block of Main Street.  Several officers responded to the area and found the victim with non-life-threatening injuries that he got during the robbery.

The victim was transported to Fort Hamilton Hospital for treatment.  

As police saturated the area, three suspects were located a few blocks away from the location of the incident.  They were taken into custody.  As a result of the investigation, Orlandus Jackson has been charged with Aggravated Robbery, Zihier Bailey is charged with Aggravated Robbery, and William Crawley is charged with Complicity to Aggravated Robbery.    

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