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Cincinnati Gang Memebers Indicted. Robbery Plot




After months of surveillance, today federal prosecutors announce the indictment of five local gang members. All five are accused of conspiring to commit a crime involving drugs, guns and a large amount of cash. Local 12 News Reporter tiffany Wilson has the details on the investigation that brought down these suspected gang members. 

Chief James Craig is calling this indictment major and he says these arrests will go a long way to breaking apart the Cincinnati street gang that goes by a variety of names including Quiet Money Incorporated to Throw Down Gorillas to TOG.

Police say a YouTube clip shows many quiet money members singing tribute to one of their murdered friends... "This was a street gang that was involved in retaliation shootings." 

Each shooting meant a new investigation for detective David Gregory. "The violence in Over the Rhine in April, March, May 2011, shootouts, a ten year old shot, a lot of felonious assaults, murders, that was directly related to two warring gangs." 

Gregory says Antonio Woods, Ryan Neel, Phillip Shaw, Yahmale Brown and Quenton Thomas held down the front line of that gang battle for Quiet Money. Earlier this month, a federally authorized wire tap allowed investigators to overhear their plot to steal drugs and roughly $80,000 cash. "We stopped it Cincinnati police and the FBI before that robbery occurred and anyone could get hurt." 

"I'm absolutely convinced that we have key people in custody but there's more to come." Chief Craig says there's both more Quiet Money members to arrest and other streets gangs to stop. "We have a big surprise coming in district four we're going to abate the violence in that area." 

He's talking about Avondale and curbing the recent flash of violence including the shooting of a four year old boy. "I'm committed to continuing to disrupt these violent predators in Cincinnati. They should know one thing - we will find you. we will disrupt your activity and you will go to jail." 

And when Feds get involved...jail time could mean life. "We are confident in our indictment as I stated, innocent until proven guilty but we intend to prove them guilty."  

 Investigators say they hope these arrests will lead to new information about several unsolved homicides in Over-the-Rhine.

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KKK Gathering Leads To Arrest Of Butler County Man


A Fairfield Twp. man was cited for aggravated menacing over the weekend during a gathering of Ku Klux Klan members in northwest Ohio.
From 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, members of the Ku Klux Klan marched in Mount Victory, a village about 50 miles northwest of Columbus.
“By all accounts this was a semi-organized attempt by the Klan,” said Hardin County Sheriff Keith Everhart. “There were five to seven of them walking around and some of our residents took offense to them and confronted them.”
Kevin A. Gibbs, 22, of the 3000 block of Stockbridge Lane in Fairfield Twp. was cited for aggravated menacing and obstructing justice after witnesses said he pulled a revolver from his holster, pointed it to the ground and told a 46-year-old black man from the nearby village of Ridgeway, “I will kill you,” according to police reports.
Everhart said Gibbs was legally carrying the weapon, and no other citations were issued from the gathering.
“They were over in the area and I reacted to it and I shouldn’t have,” said Kenneth Ratleff, the alleged victim. “I told them, ‘We don’t need this kind of garbage in the area.’ It’s a good community.”
Gibbs has a summons to appear in Hardin County Municipal Court April 2. Attempts to reach Gibbs on Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Everhart said his office is continuing to investigate the incident and where the Klan members came from. Some participants wore robes or jackets with KKK insignia.
Mount Victory had 627 residents and 615 of them were white, according to the 2010 Census.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Mega Millions jackpot now at $540 million


The estimated jackpot for Friday night's Mega Millions drawing rose Thursday to $540 million, extending what Mega Millions officials say already was going to be a world record for lottery jackpots.
Friday's jackpot initially was estimated at $476 million, and then $500 million, but stronger-than-anticipated sales nationwide have helped push up the figure, lottery officials said.
The previous world record for a single jackpot, according to Mega Millions officials, was that game's $390 million prize in a March 6, 2007, drawing. That jackpot was split by winners in Georgia and New Jersey.
The growing jackpot has drawn a steadily increasing interest from would-be millionaires. In Texas, one of the 42 states where Mega Millions is played, 482,763 standard $1 tickets – that is, tickets without the extra $1 Megaplier option – were sold from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, said Kelly Cripe, spokeswoman for the Texas Lottery Commission. In the same hour a day earlier, 143,605 tickets were told in Texas, Cripe said.
Mega Millions officials predict that $396 million in tickets will be sold nationwide from Wednesday through Friday's drawing, Cripe said. The estimate includes actual sales from Wednesday, she said.
On Wednesday, lottery officials in Virginia estimated that the number of tickets sold in that state on Friday alone would be more than four times the 1.2 million tickets sold in Virginia on a Friday two weeks earlier, when the jackpot was $200 million.

"Sales are very, very strong in Virginia. It looks like we're seeing a lot more people who don't normally play want to get in the game," Virginia Lottery spokesman John Hagerty said Wednesday afternoon.
Friday's $540 million prize would be payable as an annuity over 26 years. If a winner prefers, he or she could choose a one-time, lump-sum payment, which in this case would be $389 million. Both figures are before taxes.
Friday's jackpot rolled over from Tuesday's drawing for a $363 million prize, which no one won. The prize has been building since January 24, when a Georgia woman won a $72 million Mega Millions drawing.
The biggest single-ticket win in the other nationwide lottery, Powerball, was in February 2006 when a ticket held by eight workers at a Nebraska food plant paid a $365 million jackpot.
Mega Millions is played in 42 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A jackpot-winning ticket must match all five numbers drawn from a pot containing 56 balls and then match the Mega Ball, which is drawn from a pot containing 46 numbers. Odds of winning are almost 176 million to 1. Each regular ticket costs $1.
Jackpots start at $12 million and rise for subsequent drawings when jackpot-winning tickets aren't sold.

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