OPD responds to aggravated menacing incident; ODNR reports Reily Township hunting and fishing violations

In addition to detaining a man being charged with murder in Indiana, the Oxford Police Department (OPD) responded to multiple thefts, an assault and aggravated menacing April 21-28.

On April 26, an officer responded to a call from three people in their early 20s who said an Uber driver had pulled a gun on them. According to the incident report, the three had ordered an Uber to go to Brick Street Bar. The driver denied one passenger’s request to roll down his window and “made a comment about the three smelling of marijuana,” according to the report.

After saying he would give the passengers negative reviews, the passengers alleged that the driver pulled over at the South College-West Spring Street intersection and told them to get out. When one of the passengers told the driver he “was being ridiculous,” the incident report states, he got out of the vehicle, "retrieved a holstered handgun” and “continued to yell at the three subjects and held his gun up above his vehicles.”

The three passengers told the officer that they attempted to walk away but alleged that the driver continued to follow them from his car until they called the police. According to the incident report, warrants for three counts of aggravated menacing will be filed against the driver for the alleged actions.

On April 26, officers responded to an unresponsive man in a parked car. According to the incident report, an empty bottle of tequila was sitting in the passenger seat, and the man did not respond to knocks on the window or shaking the vehicle. After officers gained access to the vehicle and transported to McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital, he was found to have an active warrant for arrest in Montgomery County.

The next day, officers responded to one underage female reportedly passed out in an Uptown bar bathroom, and another unresponsive man was found to have used air dusters as an inhalant.

Also during the week, officers responded to one reported theft of alcohol from Oxford Spirits, a backpack and a laptop stolen from a victim’s front porch and one customer at Consume Oxford paying with $120 in counterfeit bills. OPD also detained a man with an active warrant from Montgomery County and responded to a juvenile special needs student who struck his teacher and an administrator.

Three men were charged by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources with hunting and fishing violations which occurred in Reily Township on April 19. One was charged with fishing in Indian Creek without first obtaining a valid resident fishing license, while another was charged with hunting wild turkey on another person’s private property without obtaining written permission from the landowner. The third was also charged with hunting wild turkey on private property without permission and received additional charges for hunting without a valid 2025 hunting license, according to Area Court records.