Oak Hill

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Suspended Oak Hill cop Mike Ihnken, shown here from his Facebook profile, stands front and center as the main culprit in a State Attorney investigative report that also puts a negative light on Police Chief Diane Young, shown here in this NSBNEWS.net file photo, and at least one deputy in the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. The State Attorney's investigation looked at alleged unlawful activity centered around Ihnken, including allegations that he and Sheriff's deputy William Armstrong made and ignited homemade bombs while on duty, and that Young knew that Ihnken had falsified records. You can read the full State Attorney report by clicking the attachment.

OAK HILL -- A damning report from the State Attorney's Office obtained Tuesday by NSBNEWS.net under Florida's open records laws says "probable cause exists" that embattled Oak Hill police officer Mike Ihnken committed a crime by taking required online tests for fellow officers and affixing their names.

However, the State Attorney investigation report concludes there isn't sufficient evidence to successfully prosecute it in a court of law.

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Editor's note: The following story was submitted by contributing writer Dale Smith:

OAK HILL – Oak Hill’s personnel board has recommended terminating police officer Mike Ihnken from the city’s police force following a hearing Thursday.

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Tony Owens, 21, of New Smyrna Beach, wanted on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Cliff Dallas Baker, 26, of Oak Hill, early Saturday, was apprehended at the Wal-Mart later that night at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The 21-year-old New Smyrnan wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the early Saturday morning shooting death of an Oak Hill man in the 600 block of Greenlawn Street was apprehended without incident later that night at the Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach, New Smyrna Beach police said.

Tony Owens was being held without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Christopher Trull is back in prison, where he belongs, according to the prosecutor who presided over the sensational murder trial for which he was found to be the least culpable among his three brothers in the slayings of two Maryland Spring Breakers and the near killing of a third a decade ago.