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Drugs, guns, found inside Brazzon home
By Ed Runyan
NEWTON FALLS
The Newton Falls Police Department released photos Friday of narcotics, weapons and ammunition that were recovered from the home of Robb Brazzon, the man believed to have killed four people and then himself July 6.
The pictures show a large collection of rifles, other firearms and ammunition and plastic bags and bottles of pills taken from Brazzon’s home on Newton Drive after the killings.
It is the same residence where police found the body of his girlfriend, Tracey Engler, who was shot to death.
Police believe Brazzon, 55, killed Engler, 38, then proceeded to a home on Trumbull Court and killed his former brother-in-law, Rikki Cogley, 42; Cogley’s wife, Kathy Cogley, 39; and Kathy Cogley’s son, Everett Greathouse, 15.
Police Chief John Kuivila said Brazzon killed himself as Newton Falls police closed in on him in the Newton Township Cemetery at about 4 p.m. The Cogleys and Greathouse were killed about noon.
A 911 call made from the Cogley home appears to capture an argument between Brazzon and Rikki Cogley that took place during the killing spree.
It suggests that the two men were arguing over a female.
Kuivila said in a press release that the Youngstown Police Bomb Squad also removed homemade explosives from the home.
Kuivila added that the department has no information to release regarding a motive for the killings.
Brazzon was sentenced to five years’ probation in January 2000 after pleading guilty to one count of drug trafficking that resulted from an undercover drug investigation conducted by the Newton Falls Police Department and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.
According to court documents, a confidential informant visited Brazzon two times in March 1999 and purchased Vicodin ES tablets from him while equipped with a recording device.
Judge John M. Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court ordered Brazzon to forfeit $15,000 in cash that was seized during the investigation, but Brazzon was allowed to get back 100,000 rounds of ammunition and more than 40 firearms that were confiscated from his home.
Among the weapons confiscated were 11 pistols in holsters and 31 rifles and shotguns that Brazzon said were purchased at gun shows in Niles and in Summit and Medina counties.