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Mental health urgent care now available to all in Clermont County
Almost everyone has been to an urgent care before for a medical problem. However, not many know about mental health urgent cares. We visited one location right in Clermont County. Solve the daily Crossword
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19-05-2025
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Coroner IDs human remains found in woods as missing Ohio man since 2022
A pile of human remains found in the woods in Ohio last month has been identified. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The Clermont County Sheriff's Office collected the bones and sent them to the Hamilton County Coroner's Office for examination, according to a spokesperson. With the assistance of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), DNA was extracted from the remains and identified as Roger Bruce, 51. As previously reported by News Center 7, a person found the remains in the woods on April 20 while searching for mushrooms. The caller told dispatchers he discovered bones 'which appear human.' TRENDING STORIES: Mother, daughter killed, 5-year-old missing after being hit by train in Ohio 4 men arrested during local prostitution sting Area pharmacist accused of stealing more than 32K pills over 2 years During the investigation, Zachary Scott was the last known person to see Bruce. Scott called 911 in January 2022. He reported that Bruce was unresponsive in a vehicle and claimed Bruce had overdosed on drugs, the sheriff's office said. Scott said he administered Narcan and disconnected the call. When he called back, he claimed Bruce drove away after regaining consciousness. Detectives searched but did not find either Bruce or Scott. When they interviewed Scott a day later, they stated he had changed his story, the sheriff's office reported. A grand jury indicted Scott in September 2022 on several felonies, including one count of involuntary manslaughter, gross abuse of a corpse, corrupting another with drugs, and tampering with evidence. Scott pleaded guilty to charges of tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. A Clermont County judge sentenced him to five years in prison. Bruce was reported missing in 2022 by the Brown County Sheriff's Office. [SIGN UP: WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
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17-05-2025
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Human remains found in Clermont County identified as 2022 overdose death victim
Human remains founds in Clermont County recently were identified as those of a man whose body went missing after he died of an overdose three years ago. The Clermont County Coroner's Office said in a May 16 news release that the remains, found April 19 and 20 in the 1500 block of Barger Road in Washington Township, belonged to Roger Shane Bruce, 51, of Felicity, Ohio. Bruce was reported missing in early 2022 by another man, 31-year-old Zachary Scott. The identification process involved a comprehensive physical examination conducted by a forensic anthropologist and DNA analysis performed by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation's DNA Laboratory, according to the release. 'This identification brings a measure of closure to a tragic and prolonged period of uncertainty," Brian Treon, Clermont County coroner, said in the release. "Our thoughts are with Mr. Bruce's family as they navigate this difficult time.' In 2023, Scott pleaded guilty to gross abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence after authorities accused him of disposing of Bruce's body after he died of an overdose. More than a year earlier, in January 2022, Scott, Bruce and two other people had driven to Cincinnati to buy heroin , Clermont County prosecutors said. After they came back to Clermont County, and the two other passengers were dropped off, Bruce overdosed and died while with Scott. Scott then left Bruce's body in a location that was unknown at the time and misdirected the investigation into Bruce's disappearance by providing several false locations to authorities, the prosecutor's office said. On Jan. 21, 2022, Scott called 911 and said Bruce overdosed at the 2400 block of Laurel Point Isabel Road in Washington Township, then reported that Bruce "took off" after he administered a dose of Narcan, according to the Clermont County Sheriff's Office. Deputies searched the area but didn't find Bruce, officials said, and his parents reported him missing the next day. Two days after the reported overdose, Scott admitted to investigators that he lied in his 911 call, saying instead that Bruce actually ran off near the 1600 block of Beckelhymer Road in Moscow, Ohio, a criminal complaint stated. Scott told a detective that he searched in the cold for Bruce for several hours but never found the man. The sheriff's office said in court filings that Scott's later statements to detectives were misleading as well and that Scott also denied going to Cincinnati to buy drugs, though Bruce's phone records and witness statements proved otherwise. In the months after Bruce went missing, detectives searched throughout Washington Township using drones, bloodhounds and cadaver dogs, but each time they came up empty-handed. The investigation into the circumstances surrounding Bruce's death is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Clermont County's investigation unit at 513-732-7545. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Human remains found in Clermont County ID'd as Roger Shane Bruce
