Police investigating after suspicious package found at Newtown business (2023)

>> NOW AT NOON, TRACKING RAIN MOVING THROUGH THE GREATER CINCINNATI AREA. I WILL SHOW WHEN WE SWITCH OVER TO SNOW MOVING THROUGH TOMORROW. >> ONLY ON WLWT. U.C. STUDENTS CALL 911 TO REPORT A MAN WITH A GUN THREATENING THEM. WHERE THE ROBBERY REPORTS CAME IN AND THE MAN CHARGED IN TWO OF THE CASES. PLUS, MORE WESTERN ALLIES COMMIT TO SENDING TANKS TO UKRAINE TO HELP THE COUNTRY FIGHT RUSSIA. THE AMERICAN REVERSAL PROMPTING MORE AID FROM GERMANY. [CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY WLWT-TV] >> THIS IS WLWT NEWS 5 LEADING THE WAY. KELLY: WARMER TEMPERATURES HELPED MOST AREAS AVOID THE WORST OF THE SNOW OVERNIGHT. BUT THE RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL. THANKS FOR JOINING US AT NOON. I’M KELLY RIPPIN. AREAS THAT SAW SNOW METEOROLOGIST ALLISON ROGERS , SHOWS IF WE’LL SEE ANY MORE SNOWFLAKES IN CINCINNATI’S MOST ACCURATE FORECAST. ALSO HOW THIS WET WEATHER COULD IMPACT US WITH THE TEMPERATURES THIS EVENING. >> WHAT WE SEE ACROSS GREATER CINCINNATI IS A RAINFALL THAT WILL ROLL THROUGH FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. WE WILL SEE A BREAK IN THE PRECIPITATION WINNING EVENTUALLY WE WILL BRIEFLY DRY OUT. IN THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ANOTHER ROUND OF WINTRY MIX IS A POSSIBILITY BEFORE THAT SWITCHES OVER TO A SNOWFALL THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE DAY TOMORROW. OFF AND ON SNOW SHOWERS EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON THURSDAY. LEADING TO LIGHT OR MINOR ACCUMULATIONS IN THE GREATER CINCINNATI AREA. WE SEE SOME AREAS OF LIGHTER SHOWERS, FOR THE MOST PART THINGS HAVE STARTED TO QUIET DOWN FOR US. AREAS THAT SAW SOME SNOW SAW A DECENT AMOUNT OF IT. THREE TO FOUR INCHES OF SNOWFALL FOR SOME PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA AND AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY AS WELL. THE LOW-PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVED A LITTLE BIT FURTHER NORTH. WE SAW THE RAIN LINE MOVING FURTHER NORTH AS WELL CLOSER TO I-71. THAT LED TO RAIN MOVING INTO THE CINCINNATI METRO. OUR TOTALS WERE CUT DOWN QUITE A BIT. THEY ONLY SAW 1.5 INCHES OF SNOWFALL, BRIGHT INDIANA GOT ALMOST 4.5 INCHES OF SNOW. WE SAW ABOUT 3.5 INCHES OF SNOWFALL IN NAPOLEON AND THREE INCHES IN OXFORD. PARTS OF A JOINT NORTHERN KENTUCKY NOT SEEING ANYTHING WITH THIS PARTICULAR SYSTEM. FOR THE REST OF THE DAY TEMPERATURES WILL STAY IN THE 40’S. JUMPING UP TO 44 SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON. IT WILL BE BREEZY OUTSIDE. I AM TRACKING THE RETURN TO THE WINTRY MIX, I WILL SHOW YOU WHEN IT MOVES THROUGH AND WHEN ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF FLURRIES MOVE THROUGH COMING UP. KELLY: AS HER TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER THIS MORNING, THE ROADS REMAIN WET THROUGHOUT GREATER CINCINNATI. WLWT NEWS 5’S TODD DYKES IS LIVE IN BUTLER COUNTY WHERE PLOW DRIVERS ARE STILL CLEARING SNOW FROM DRIVEWAYS AND PARKING LOTS. TODD. EVERYONE IS GOING WHERE IS THE SNOW? APPARENTLY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI. TODD: NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, HERE AT THE UNIVERSITY SEE WET PAVEMENT BEHIND ME RIGHT NEXT TO PILES OF SNOW SHOVED OUT OF THE WAY. THE SIDE PLUS WALKWAYS THAT ARE PASSABLE FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS. CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING HERE. DRIVE ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF CAMPUS, JUST ACROSS THE INDIANA STATE LINE, AND YOU’LL SEE PLENTY OF RURAL ROADS WITH LANES FOR CAR AND TRUCK TIRES TO FOLLOW, BUT THAT’S ABOUT IT. THOSE ROADS ARE STILL PRETTY SLIPPERY AT THIS HOUR. BACK IN OXFORD, AS WAS THE CASE ELSEWHERE EFFORTS TO CLEAR THE ROADS KICKED INTO HIGH GEAR WHEN SNOW STARTED COMING DOWN AT A RAPID PACE AROUND ONE OR TWO THIS MORNING. WE CAUGHT UP WITH TRENT HENSLEY WHO GRABBED A SHOVEL AND WENT TO WORK. HE SAID THE COMBINATION OF THE SNOW THAT FELL OVERNIGHT AND THE RAIN THAT STARTED FALLING THIS MORNING MADE THE JOB A LOT TOUGHER. >> DEFINITELY MAKES IT HARDER WHEN YOU FIRST GO OUT. IT’S A LOT WORSE. JUST DOING DRIVEWAYS AND SIDEWALKS MAINLY. IT’S REALLY COLD OUT HERE. THE SNOW IS REALLY WET, SO IT GETS REALLY HEAVY. TODD: RIGHT NOW I WILL CALL THE PESKY PERIOD. JUST A SECOND AGO WHEN WE BROUGHT YOU THIS REPORT IT RAINED HARD. THE RAIN HAS TAPERED OFF. A FEW MINUTES BEFORE WE WERE ON AIR, I WAS TALKING TO VIDEOGRAPHER, WE WERE COMMENTING IT WAS FEELING WARMER. THAT WAS A CASE 10 MINUTES AGO. WE WILL BE IN A PATTERN OF CHANGING CONDITIONS OF THE OXFORD AREA. THE RAIN IS LIGHTER THAN IT WAS A FEW MINUTES AGO, MAKING THINGS FEEL A WHOLE LOT BETTER. TODD DYKES, WLWT NEWS 5. KELLY: AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY AFTER A CRASH INVOLVING A SALT TRUCK AND A CAR IN WEST PRICE HILL, THIS ALL HAPPENED ON GLENWAY AVENUE. JUST NORTH OF RAPID RUN ROAD. NO ONE WAS HURT. BUT IT’S A REMINDER TO GIVE CREWS ALL THE SPACE THEY NEED AS THEY CLEAR AND TREAT ROADS. REMEMBER, YOU CAN STAY AHEAD OF ANY WINTER WEATHER, BY DOWNLOADING THE FREE WLWT MOBILE APP. JUST MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALERTS TURNED ON. AND WE’LL NOTIFY YOU WHENEVER SNOW OR RAIN IS HEADED YOUR WAY. ONLY ON WLWT, WE’RE HEARING 911 CALLS FROM STUDENTS ROBBED AT GUNPOINT. NEAR UC’S CAMPUS. LAST WEEK. POLICE HAVE NO SUSPECTS FOR TWO OF THE CRIMES, ONE ON STRATFORD AVENUE AND THE OTHER ON FAIRVIEW AVENUE. BOTH VICTIMS SHARED SIMILAR DETAILS OF THE ROBBERIES, SAYING THE SUSPECT APPROACHED EACH OF THEM WHILE THEY WERE PARKING THEIR CARS AT NIGHT, THE VICTIM ON FAIRVIEW CALLED FOR HELP MOMENTS AFTER SHE WAS ROBBED. >> BASICALLY I PARKED MY CAR, I GOT OUT OF MY CAR AND THEN THEY JUST HAPPENED TO LIKE PULL UP NEXT TO ME, UM WITH THEIR WINDOW DOWN. THEY HAD A GUN IN THEIR HAND AND THEY WERE LIKE I DON’T WANT TO SHOOT YOU AND I WAS LIKE OK. I HAD LIKE $20 THAT I GAVE TO HIM. KELLY: POLICE SAY THOSE TWO CASES REMAIN OPEN INVESTIGATIONS. BUT THEY DO HAVE 22-YEAR-OLD RAPHAEL BETTS IN CUSTODY AND CHARGED WITH 4 COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED ROBBERY. THERE WERE SEVERAL ROBBERIES AROUND THE SAME TIMEFRAME. HE’S THE SUSPECT IN ROBBERIES ON CHICKASAW AND VICTOR STREETS, AND A SEPARATE CRIME ON CHARLTON STREET. ALL OF THE U.C. STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THESE ARMED ROBBERIES OFF-CAMPUS WERE NO