MESSAGE FROM PROSECUTOR SHERRI BEVAN WALSH

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Calhoun to Serve Nine Years on Heroin Charges

(September 29, 2011… Akron) … Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh announced today that Homell Calhoun, 34, of Fess Avenue in Akron, pled no contest today to a first-degree felony charge of Possession of Heroin, with a specification of criminal forfeiture, and a fifth-degree felony charge of Possession of Heroin, with a second criminal forfeiture specification.

In December 2010, Calhoun was stopped by Akron police in a parking lot near the Mayflower after a woman admitted to buying heroin from him. Members of the narcotics unit knew Calhoun’s girlfriend lived in the Mayflower and received consent from her to search her apartment. There they found a safe containing $19,000 and more than 380 grams of heroin. Another 26 doses of heroin and $2,200 in cash were found on Calhoun. Calhoun was released from jail on bail at the end of January.

In early April 2011, a Tallmadge resident called police after seeing someone she didn’t recognize enter the side door of a neighbor’s house. When police arrived, they found Calhoun standing in the doorway of a sliding glass door, his right side hidden from view. While talking with police, he occasionally stood all the way inside the house so as to be completely out of view of police. When Calhoun finally complied with police commands to step out of the house, heroin was found just feet from where he had been standing.

Judge Thomas Parker sentenced Calhoun to nine years in prison. As part of his plea deal, Calhoun also agreed to forfeit $22,223 seized by Akron Police in December, as well as $235 seized by Tallmadge Police and a 50-inch TV, Blu-ray player and 3D glasses.

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