Sheriff leaving for state position By CHAD WILLIAMSON AND MAC CORDELL

Pictured left - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, behind the podium, was in the Union County Common Pleas Courtroom today to announce Union County Sheriff Rocky Nelson as the new executive director of the Ohio Organized Crime Commission.

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Source: Marysville Journal-Tribune

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