Officers honored at Lisbon ceremony

LISBON — Two troopers and a sergeant from the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Lisbon Post, a dispatcher from the patrol’s Lisbon Dispatch Center and a Columbiana County Sheriff’s deputy and sergeant were honored for their skill in handling a hostage situation involving a mother and her three children at Guilford Lake in Hanover Township.

Trooper Michael S. Smith, Trooper Kenneth A. Metz, Sgt. Thomas R. Hermann, Dispatcher Anthony J. D’Apolito and county Deputy Randy Baughman and Sgt. Thomas Foley were presented certificates of recognition today by Capt. James Holt, commander of the patrol’s Warren District, for their professionalism.

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