True crime podcaster found guilty of intimidating officials
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Background: News footage of Ashli Ford outside of court (WTOL). Inset: The logo for Ashli Ford’s podcast, “Allegedly” (Patreon).

An Ohio-based true crime podcaster was found guilty of intimidating city officials in a Facebook post she wrote in 2023.

Ashli Ford, aged 40, was found guilty on Thursday for four out of the 19 charges she faced during her trial, which included 16 felony counts. As reported in court documents reviewed by the local CBS station WTOL, Ford was convicted on four charges of intimidation, while she was cleared of other accusations such as extortion, telecommunications fraud, and misdemeanor falsification.

Ford, who hosts the “Allegedly” true crime podcast, faced these charges after being indicted in March 2024. This followed a controversial Facebook post she made in September 2023, where she accused various officials from Norwalk, Ohio of misconduct.

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The controversial Facebook post, dated September 22, 2023, mentioned by name several city officials from Norwalk, including Mayor David Light, law director and prosecutor Stuart O’Hara, safety and service director Michael White, and former police chief David Smith, accusing them of corrupt activities.

All of them were witnesses for the prosecution during the trial.

Along with her accusations, Ford wrote a series of threats against the city officials, including, “I know that I have you on your knees” and “This is your VERY LAST opportunity to end this in a respectable manner.”

Ford went on to write, “I will slowly crumble the reputation [of] every single person who stands in the way of justice,” adding, “I will escort you to your demise in a manner more akin to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King Jr.”

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