Justice Insider | Former Ohio State football player Corey Smith arrested – News – The Columbus Dispatch

A former Ohio State wide receiver was arrested in the Linden neighborhood Saturday after neighbors say he fired gunshots.

Corey D. Smith Jr., 26, had told Columbus police earlier he knew nothing about gunshots detected by the ShotSpotter system.

Police had responded to the 1700 block of Cordell Avenue after receiving an alert from ShotSpotter that shots had been fired in the area. They found two shell casings behind a home in the 1700 block of East 26th Avenue.

Smith, whose address was listed as Barberton, a suburb of Akron, said he had heard no shots and knew nothing, police said. Nearby residents, however, told officers later that Smith had been firing a gun during a party the night before.

Police had been to the home previously to help the U.S. Marshals Service look for Smith, who was wanted on arrest warrants from the Akron area for aggravated robbery.

Police reviewed body-camera footage and determined that Smith was the person they had spoken with at the East 26th Avenue home. Surveillance was conducted, and when SWAT officers arrived, Smith attempted to run away but was caught after a brief chase.

Smith was held on the Akron-area warrants; Columbus charges involving shooting a gun are pending.

Smith played for the Buckeyes from 2014 to 2016.

Fentanyl, heroin and meth

Columbus police confiscated more than 45 grams of methamphetamine during the search of a home on the Hilltop.

Police had a search warrant for a residence in the 1700 block of Union Avenue and arrived at 6:15 p.m. on March 12. They said the methamphetamine seized has a street value of about $4,600. Police said they also found an undetermined amount of heroin and a gun.

More than a dozen surveillance cameras, some of which were pointed down an alley, also were confiscated.

A 26-year-old woman was arrested on charges of drug possession.

In a search warrant served two days later at a home in Linden, police seized more than a pound and a half of fentanyl with a street value of more than $76,000.

The raid in the 1500 block of Genessee Avenue also resulted in the seizure of nearly 700 grams of heroin with a street value of more than $69,000, plus 43 grams of cocaine, 16 grams of marijuana and three semi-automatic firearms, police said.

Two milligrams of fentanyl is an average dosage that could prove fatal to humans, according to federal narcotics officials. The 763 grams recovered during the Thursday raid could kill 400,000 people.

A 61-year-old man was taken into custody and faces high-level felony charges.

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