Vinton County: Possible shooting, theft, animal complaint reported; deputies take court-ordered custody

William Mulhern Jr., 55, of McArthur, was arrested at 20:46 on Mt. Zion Road in Richland Township after deputies responded to a fight involving a firearm, the Vinton County Sheriff’s Office reported. Mulhern was taken into custody at the scene for "Having Weapons while under Disability (from previous felony convictions)" and was transported to the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail, with the sheriff’s Facebook post noting he was "pictured" during transport.

Earlier that day at 09:57 deputies took a report of a possible shooting originating from a motor vehicle on Siverly Creek Road in Swan Township, the activity report lists. The sheriff’s office logged the incident in its Feb. 11 activity entry; the report does not include follow-up details about victims or suspects in the shooting.

A theft was reported at 11:48 on Hickory Street in Zaleski, according to the same activity timeline. At 15:31 deputies responded to an animal complaint on Mt. Zion Road in Richland Township; the Facebook post supplied the full text of that entry after an initial truncated report, and the animal complaint occurred hours before the firearm-related fight at the same road.

Vintonjacksoncourier reported that at 15:37 deputies took custody of James Mash by order of the Vinton County Common Pleas Court and transported Mash to the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail. The court-ordered custody action is listed separately from the incident timeline posted on the sheriff’s Facebook page.

Additional calls logged that afternoon and evening included a 16:51 patrol to Prattsville Road in reference to a suspicious vehicle, a 18:00 response to an altercation involving a firearm on Union Ridge Road in Knox Township, and a 19:02 response to State Route 93 for a runaway juvenile; the juvenile was located, the local report states. At 21:01 deputies responded to Beard Cemetary in reference to a possible overdose, an entry that appears in the Vintonjacksoncourier timeline.

The sheriff’s office posted the activity report on its official Facebook page and included the legal presumption line verbatim: "\\\All suspects, arrested individuals, and persons issued citations are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a Court of Law." The post registered 44 reactions and nine shares and the office limited who could comment on the post; the social-media excerpt also contained an ellipsis indicating some content was omitted from the captured feed and a photo associated with Mulhern’s transport.

A separate jail-log snapshot captured about Feb. 11 lists multiple inmates and bookings compiled by a records service. Entries include Jail ID 52757, Neal, Aaron Michael, charged with Failure to Appear, total bail $2,500, book date 02/10/2026, arresting agency Athens County Sheriff; Jail ID 52660, Nelson, Ryan James, Probation Violation, total bail $25,000, book date 12/31/2025, arresting agency Meigs County Sheriff; Jail ID 1017313, Newsom, Dirk Robert, Aggravated Possession of Drugs and Improperly Handling Firearm, book date 02/11/2026, arresting agency Perry County Sheriff; and entries for Douglas Boyd Phillips, Michael Thorton Pickett, Maryann Michelle Green, Angela Gayle Gregory, and Beth Noel Guisinger with the charges, bail amounts, book dates, and arresting agencies shown in the table excerpt. That jail-log capture includes bookings with earlier book dates and agencies outside Vinton County and should not be conflated with the Feb. 11 activity entries unless formally linked by law-enforcement records.

The Feb. 11 activity report and related jail-log snapshot present multiple open items for follow-up, including the current booking status and court dates for Mulhern and Mash, investigative outcomes for the 09:57 Siverly Creek Road shooting report, and whether any of the Mt. Zion Road entries are connected. The sheriff’s office post and the Vintonjacksoncourier timeline remain the primary public accounts of the incidents as logged for Feb. 11, 2026.