A CINCINNATI POLICE OFFICER IS LUCKY TO BE ALIVE AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE FACE AT POINT BLANK RANGE DURING A TRAFFIC STOP. THE SHOT CUT 1.5 INCHES ACROSS OFFICER KRISTINA HOLTMANN'S CHEEK AFTER IT WENT THROUGH THE BILL OF HER HAT AND SHATTERED HER GLASSES. HOLTMANN'S PARTNER, lAUREN sMITH WAS ALSO WOUNDED IN THE GUNFIGHT THAT STARTED WHEN THE TWO OFFICERS ARRESTED THE DRIVER OF A CAR. THE DRIVER'S PASSENGER, DANTE "PRETTY BOY" PERSON, GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND STARTED SHOOTING AT THE OFFICERS.PERSON GOT OFF ONE SHOT FROM HIS .45 CALIBER PISTOL BEFORE IT JAMMED AND HE WAS WOUNDED BY OFFICER SMITH. PERSON UNDERWENT SURGERY FOR A SEVERED ARTERY IN HIS RIGHT THIGH. PERSON DROPPED HIS GUN AND RAN, BUT COPS CAUGHT UP WITH HIM 30 MINUTES LATER.

SUSPECT ZACHARY AYLSWORTH, JUMPS FROM CINCINNATI'S BRENT SPENCE BRIDGE AFTER A HIGH SPEED CHASE. HE WAS RUNNING BECAUSE HE WAS SUSPECTED OF TRYING TO CARJACK TWO CARS BEFORE FIGHTING WITH ONE MAN AT A GAS STATION AND ACTUALLY TAKING ONE. POLICE SAID AN ARRIVING OFFICER TRIED TO TASER THE SUSPECT, THE PRONGS HIT THE WINDOW AND BOUNCED OFF. THE HIGH SPEED CHASE WAS NOW ON. AS THE CHASE CROSSES THE BRIDGE, THE MAN BAILS FROM HIS VEHICLE AND JUMPS. COPS REPORTED BRIEFLY SEEING THE AYLSWORTH DOWN BELOW IN THE WATER, BUT COULDN'T LOCATE HIM AFTER THAT.

ROBBERY CAUGHT ON TAPE AT THE LAROSAS' RESTAURANT. TWO MEN WALKED INTO THE PLACE WEARING SKI MASKS AND DEMANDED MONEY. THEY THEN TOOK OFF IN DARK COLORED SUV.

WE have obtained the video taken by a Cincinnati police dashboard camera during the arrest of former UC basketball coach Andy Kennedy. Kennedy, now coach for Ole Miss, was arrested Dec. 18 on charges of punching a Cincinnati cab driver and shouting racial slurs at him. The police video, which runs more than an hour in length, reveals what happened during the time Kennedy and William Armstrong, director of basketball operations for Ole Miss, were pulled over and arrested by police. News 5’s Eric Flack reviewed every second of the video and pulled out some excerpts from the hour-long exchange between Kennedy, Armstrong and the officers. The video starts as officers order Kennedy and Armstrong to get out of their car. The tension was undeniable.“Get out, face the car and put your hands behind your back. One move and you’re lit,” said the officer. “Face the cab … now. Do it now!” Kennedy tried to explain who he was and why he was in Cincinnati. “I’m here for the Big East SEC challenge,” Kennedy was heard saying on the video. “I’m playing Louisville and Rick Pitino tomorrow. I was the UC head coach. I am going to be on national television. If I’m not standing there at 9 p.m. tomorrow, this is an international altercation.” Officers appeared to be in no mood to talk.“Can I speak to you sir?” asked Kennedy of the officer. “No,” the officer replied. “You won’t let me speak to you,” Kennedy asked. “You turn on me one more time, I’m going to start making some more charges. Do you understand me?” the officer responded. “I want to talk to you,” Kennedy insisted. “I don’t want to talk to you,” continued the officer. “You are being taken to the scene. If you are positively ID’d, you will go to the justice center and be charged for assault.” The cab driver, Mohamed Moctar Ould Jiddou, told police he picked up Kennedy and his friends after they were ejected from a bar. Jiddou told them there wasn’t enough room to get everyone in the cab.“It was ridiculous,” Kennedy explained to the officer. “He said you can’t come so we said we’re gonna get out of your cab, and that’s when all this started. Sir, please! Jiddou said Kennedy punched him in the face. In court papers, Kennedy is accused of calling Jiddou ‘Osama bin Laden’, ‘Saddam Hussein’ and a ‘Sand n-word’. “There was a verbal altercation,” Kennedy told the officer. “They wouldn’t allow one more guy in a cab, and the consequence is I get arrested and we have this issue?”“That’s what‘s going on right now,” replied the officer.“That makes no sense sir,” said Kennedy.Kennedy’s friend told police that the cab driver is the one who used a racial slur, calling an African-American companion of Kennedy’s the ‘n-word’.Armstrong couldn’t contain himself when the cab driver denied it to police.“You did everything as much as we did,” shouted Armstrong. “You said f__ you, get out of my cab. Didn’t you? Didn’t you say that? You’re a lying mother f__er. You did say that. Didn’t you say it? Say you said it.”“That’s enough,” said the officer.“You said it and you know it,” continued Armstrong.“I’m telling you that’s enough,” said the officer.“I’ll go to jail. I don’t care. He knows he said that. He knows he said it,” continued Armstrong. The outburst led to Armstrong facing disorderly conduct charges. Kennedy was charged with misdemeanor assault, but only after pleading with police more than once to let him go.“I’m begging you. I’m looking at you. Please look at me. This is … this is a major deal man,” pleaded Kennedy.“I understand sir, but if I don’t do this, I could lose my job,” said the officer.“It’s not worth it. Please trust me. Please trust me on this. This is going to be a national incident sir,” continued Kennedy.“Sir, everything you’re saying right now is being recorded,” replied the officer. “No, I understand that,” said Kennedy.“You think we’ve never arrested somebody that’s made national media? … We deal with the Bengals all the time,” said the officer.Kennedy’s assault trial is scheduled for April. City prosecutors included the video tapes on a list of evidence they plan to use at trial.Kennedy has filed a defamation lawsuit against Jiddou and a valet, Michael Strother, who said he witnessed the attack and corroborated Jiddou’s story.An amendment was filed to that lawsuit a few days later adding Kennedy’s wife to the suit and a claim of ‘loss of consortium’, or damaging the couple’s married life. Both Jiddou and Strother have filed countersuits seeking damages from the Kennedys.POLICE REPORT: Sgt. James L. Perkins (Arrested: William Armstrong)"Arrested was intoxicated and ejected from Lodge Bar. Arrested then was involved in separate altercation with a taxi driver, where his co-worker/friend was arrested. Arrested continued to taunt the taxi driver in which his conduct was likely to cause a violent response. Arrested was persistent with his conduct and kept requesting [sic] to being taken to jail"POLICE REPORT: P.O. S. Bower (Arrested: Andy Kennedy)"Arrested was the aggressor that punched listed victim with a closed fist. Also was using racial slurs while punching victim. There was an unrelated witness that observed the whole incident."

dashcam Pursuit of a suspect running away from the cops with a stolen car. The driver bails out of the car and flees while the car is still rolling. The passenger tries to do the same and the car actually runs right over her. Miraculously, she sustained only minor injuries.

AN OHIO MAN WANTED FOR ROBBERY HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER LEADING COPS ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE THROUGH TWO GEORGIA COUNTIES. SUSPECT KEVIN LAMONT BATES, AGE 34, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AFTER WRECKING HIS CAR EXITING INTERSTATE 75 ACCORDING TO POLICE.BATES RAN AWAY FROM THE WRECK AND WAS FOUND A HALF MILE AWAY HIDING UNDER A HOUSE. HE WAS TICKETED IN MONROE COUNTY FOR SPEEDING 120 MPH IN A 70 MPH ZONE, MAKING IMPROPER LANE CHANGES AND RECKLESS DRIVING. THE CHASE ENDED WHEN HIS VEHICLE SMASHED INTO A TREE.

Janine D. England, a part-time Perry Township police officer, was fired by township trustees Tuesday night during a special meeting, according to the Canton Repository.Trustees reportedly had earlier refused to accept England's resignation.England, 30, was caught on a police cruiser camera kissing and caressing former Police Chief Tim Escola during a June 2 trip to pick up a burglary suspect from the Cincinnati area.Escola abruptly retired last week.

HIGH SPEED CHASE GETS CRAZY WHEN SUSPECT PULLS OVER, POINTS WHAT APPEARS TO BE A GUN AT COPS, AND THEN DRIVES OFF IN ONE OF THEIR SQUAD CARS. IT'S ALL CAUGHT ON TAPE!

More than 20 shots were fired in a running fight between four Cincinnati police officers and a theft suspect, Police Chief Tom Streicher said Monday. Streicher said an officer responded to a report of stolen ice cream at a UDF store in the 1800 block of Queen City Avenue just before 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Store employees said Qayyim Moore, 25, entered the store acting "kind of squirrelly," Streicher said. The officer arrived and Moore, who had no known address, came back to the store and asked for a spoon , Streicher said. The officer stopped Moore outside the store and attempted to search him, finding ice cream in a bag and a receipt, he said. But Moore then took off running down Queen City Avenue, with the officer in pursuit, Streicher said. When the officer fired a Taser gun at Moore and missed, Moore turned and fired a shot at the officer, Streicher said. In a running gunfight down Queen City Avenue, four officers fired 19 shots at Moore, who fired three times. Streicher said Moore's gun, a .22 caliber semi-automatic, jammed after every shot, forcing him to try to clear the gun on the run. Moore eventually fell down in the 1700 block of Queen City Avenue, where he died from four, or possibly five, gunshot wounds, Streicher said. Traces of marijuana were also found at the scene, he said. A total of 19 shots were fired, including three by Moore, and two officers of the five officers involved in the chase shot Moore multiple times, Streicher said.

Responding to possible altercation caused by gang members at a local high school police respond and start a pursuit of a non-high school gang member fleeing the scene. The suspect is struck by a Police car during a pursuit as he tries to do a zig zag to shake off the chasing officer.1/17/2001 - Incident PD99334

LT. JACK BANKS, SPOKESMAN FOR BOONE COUNTY POLICE SAID OFFICERS USED GREAT RESTRAINT WHEN A WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN PULLED OVER ON I-275 DROVE OFF IN A POLICE CRUISER. BETTY FOLSTON, 37, OF THE CINCINNATI SUBURB OF SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, LED OFFICERS ON A 30-MINUTE CHASE BEFORE SHE WAS STOPPED. FOLSTON WAS ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE CRUISER AFTER PLACING ONE OF HER HANDS IN HER HANDBAG AS IF SHE HAD A GUN INSIDE. OFFICERS WERE COMMENDED FOR NOT SHOOTING HER.BANKS COMMENTED, WHEN FOLSTON CAME TOWARDS THE OFFICERS THEY "BACKED AWAY TOWARD COVER AND SHE JUMPED IN A POLICE CAR. FRANKLY WE'D RATHER GIVE A POLICE CAR UP FOR A FEW MINUTES THAN HAVE TO TAKE AL IFE. IT WAS ACTUALLY AN EXCEPTIONAL SHOW OF RESTRAINT BY THE OFFICERS" HE SAID.FOLSTON WAS ORIGINALLY STOPPED AFTER A SOUTHERN KENTUCKY COUPLE HEADING TO INDIANA ON I-275 MADE A 911 CALL TO REPORT A STRANGER HAD FOLLOWED THEIR VEHICLE FROM A PREVIOUS REST AREA. THEY SAID FOLSTON HAD APPROACHED THEM AT THE REST STOP TO SAY SHE WANTED TO TRAIL THEM TO CINCINNATI.

Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher used cruiser cam video and surveillance camera video on Wednesday to show how a deadly shootout between officers and a suspect in Spring Grove Village occurred.Streicher says the actions of five officers when they fatally shot 27-year-old Randolph Ward on Tuesday followed department use of force guidelines.Police say it all started when Officer Greg Toyeas pulled Ward over for a traffic violation in the parking lot of the Kroger store on Kenard Avenue. You can see Ward cut off Officer Toyeas on the cruiser cam video before he is pulled over.Streicher says Officer Toyeas became suspicious of some of the answers Ward gave to routine questions. The officer asked Ward how old he was and he responded 19. Ward told Officer Toyeas he didn't know his social security number or have a driver's license. When asked how long he had his tattoos, Ward said seven years. Officer Toyeas says to Ward that means you got the tattoos when you were 12 years old.Officer Toyeas then asks Ward to step out of the vehicle to which he refuses. As Officer Toyeas attempts to get Ward out of the vehicle, he notices Ward has a gun and yells "don't reach, don't reach." At that point, Ward gets out of the vehicle and runs behind a building with the gun in his right hand.A foot chase ensues.Police say Ward ran over a hill, over some railroad tracks and down into a gravel area where two men were changing a tire on a truck. According to police, Ward tries to get into the truck but a hydraulic stabilizer was in place preventing the vehicle from moving. Officer Shyane Schneider spotted Ward in the truck, fires her taser at him twice, but he pulled the gun and fired several shots. At that point, specialist Jerry Enneking and Officer Kevin Newman fired a total of 17 shots into the vehicle, fatally wounding Ward.According to Streicher, Ward fired three shots at police."Despite shots being fired, nobody backs off," Streicher said. He says the five officers ran into harm's way and "could easily be dead today."Mayor Mark Mallory also spoke at the news conference. He says it should have been a routine traffic stop and that, "The day ended in tragedy because of the decisions by Mr. Ward."Police say Ward was wanted for violating his probation for a weapons conviction.Ward's mother, Christel Johnson, says her son was worried about going back to jail and missed probation appointments because he could not find a job.Johnson tells 9News Randolph sent a text message to his brother before the shooting asking him to care of her.When a reporter asked Streicher if Ward's actions constituted a "suicide by police," the police chief said "they don't know" and that it may be a "possibility," but the only person who knows is Mr. Ward.Streicher says he will recommend that the five officers involved in the incident be recommended for the department's First Valor awards.

Field Sobriety test of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Christopher Henry. While he performs fairly well (and was cooperative) he registered .092 and the legal limit in Ohio is .08.

Ashland County Pursuit of Dodge Intrepid2 Angles Suspect: Montrell MpagiDate: April 25, 200212050 Springdale Lake Cincinnati, OHIO 45246A Cincinnati man stole a car from Miami university of Ohio. He led police on a 36-mile chase ...hitting speeds above 100-miles per Hour. High speed and high drama on the northbound lane of i-71. Police finally got the reckless driver to pull over in Medina county.. The Chase went on for miles.. And started in ashland county. The man from Cincinnati faces auto theft. Charges, and maybe charges of reckless operation and felony flight.