Scioto County Sheriff’s Deputies headed to the Briar Patch at 12:25 am, after a woman walked into the store saying she felt unsafe. She asked an employee to use the phone to call her family, but instead called 9-1-1 for help. When officers arrived on the scene, the woman said she’d smoked something and believed […]
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