Former Pike County sheriff Charles Reader will spend three years in prison after pleading guilty to theft in office and tampering with evidence. As sheriff, Reader presided over the investigation ...

A former Pike ... county. One man pleaded guilty in that case in March, while charges are still pending against the man's brother and parents. Reader eventually was accused of taking loans from ...

Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader has been indicted on 16 charges stemming from allegations that surfaced in November accusing Reader of stealing cash seized from cases handled from his office.

Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 16 counts, including tampering with evidence and theft. The charges stem from an anonymous complaint filed last fall, alleging ...

PIKE COUNTY, OH (WCMH) — Suspended Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader has pleaded guilty to charges against him, including theft in office. According to court documents, Reader pleaded guilty to ...

Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader has been indicted on 16 charges, including theft in office and tampering with evidence after he was accused of keeping money from drug cases in a safe in his office.

The WCPO I-Team first reported on the investigation into Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader last December. An anonymous complaint alleged that Reader stole money confiscated from drug busts to ...

A Pike County grand jury has indicted suspended Sheriff Charles Reader on a first-degree felony charge of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity — the most-serious charge now facing him since ...

In asking a judge to impose a prison sentence for former Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, Special Prosecutor Robert Smith outlined a laundry list of disgraced former sheriffs who already had b ...

Suspended Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader, who investigated the 2016 Pike County murders, is in trouble again following a new 18-count indictment returned Friday afternoon. The new indictment ...

COLUMBUS - The Ohio auditor’s office has filed a first-degree misdemeanor charge of making a false statement to the Ohio Ethics Commission against suspended Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader.

WAVERLY — Former Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader — who stood tall and proud while in the glare of an international spotlight five years ago after a family of eight was murdered in his ...