STEUBENVILLE — A man who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill the victim and witnesses against him in a 2024 case, a man who allegedly wanted to have sex with a 10-year-old and four people who plotted to smuggle drugs into the county jail were among the 12 people ordered by a Jefferson County grand jury Wednesday to stand trial.

Lloyd Allen Moore, 111 Steuben St., Brilliant, was indicted on a felony charge of retaliation after a fellow inmate told a deputy sheriff he’d been asked “to kill all of the witnesses and the victim” in the 2024 case.

According to the indictment Moore, 55, threatened harm to the individual “because (he) filed or prosecuted criminal charges” against him in the 2024 case, which had led to his indictment in August on charges of felonious assault and witness intimidation. The alleged victim in that 2024 case had obtained a protection order against Moore, his neighbor, and was trying to film him driving past his family campsite in violation of that order when Moore allegedly veered his vehicle toward him and clipped him on the knee.

Authorities report Moore was close to signing a plea deal in that 2024 case when the other inmate, who was taken to the hospital for medical treatment on April 22, advised the sheriff’s deputy who was with him that he’d been asked to kill all of the witnesses and the victim in that case. They said Moore “actually wrote a letter (detailing) his plan to kill everybody that was going to testify” and then signed his name to it, they allege.

The plea opportunity was withdrawn, and Moore now faces the retaliation charge in addition to the original charges, they said.

Facing a felony charge of importuning is Hank Travis Shaw, 2015 Commercial Ave., Mingo Junction.

Authorities allege Shaw, 54, was sending messages to a 10-year-old girl “about how he wanted to make love to her.” Those messages were intercepted, they said, but authorities maintain Shaw “admitted he kissed her but it was all the 10-year-old’s idea.”

Indicted separately on charges they conspired to illegally convey drugs into the Jefferson County jail, a felony, were David E. Hancher-Palmer, 38, 103 Liberty St., Dillonvale; Joseph Edward Hayman Jr., 26, 21 township Road 125, Dillonvale; Brittany Ranae Moore, 26, 93 Watson St., Dillonvale; and Shavonna Relee Allen, 30, 61 Cadiz Pike Rd., Bridgeport.

Authorities allege Hancher-Palmer and Hayman, inmates at the Jefferson County jail, hatched a scheme to have the two women “bring them some methamphetamine so that their jail experience is a little better,” using the jailhouse phone to hatch the plan

despite the warning posted directly above it that all calls are recorded. The women were instructed to put the meth on the rear driver’s side tire of a sheriff’s cruiser “so that when (they’re) brought out of court they could just pick up the drugs and put it in their pocket,” they maintain.

The deputy found the drugs before the men got out of court.

Also indicted:

• Tyler Lee Hannus, Vienna, WV, aggravated vehicular assault, a felony, plus three misdemeanor counts of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, drugs or both, failure to stop after an accident and a marked lane violation.

Hannus, 25, allegedly was driving under the influence on April 11 when he crashed the 2023 Subaru WRX he was driving and then fled the scene on foot, leaving a badly injured passenger behind.

Authorities said the passenger had to be flown by medical helicopter to another community for treatment and maintain Hannus at one point called Ohio State Highway Patrol officers to check on the man’s condition and they convinced him to come back and talk.

Hannus tested at more than twice the legal limit for driving drunk, they said.

• Guy Paul Blancato, 31, 2541 Chestnut St., Steubenville, failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, a felony, on April 22.

City police had responded to a call for a welfare check at the house and Blancato, who was there, allegedly fled, leading police on a pursuit that took them “all over the place,” authorities said. When Blancato eventually got onto the bridge, for the safety of all involved police terminated their pursuit.

The indictment alleges Blancato “caused a substantial risk of serious physical harm to persons or property.”

• Nathaniel C. Longmire, 49, 749 Kendall Ave., Apt. 2, Steubenville, having weapons under disability, failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer, and possession of cocaine on Feb. 7, all felonies.

Police originally pulled Longmire over to check his window tint, but authorities maintain that when they asked him to exit his vehicle, he allegedly fled instead. Authorities allege that Longmire eventually wrecked and tried to flee on foot with a backpack containing 10 grams or less of cocaine, about $2,000 in cash and a loaded handgun, despite being forbidden to have or use guns due to a 2004 felony drug trafficking conviction in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court.

• Ricky Leroy Parker, Cleveland, possession of cocaine, possession of a fentanyl-related compound, aggravated possession of drugs, failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer and tampering with evidence on March 21, all felonies.

Parker, 35, allegedly had somewhere between 27 and 100 grams of cocaine, more than 20 grams of fentanyl as well and methamphetamine in his possession when he was taken into custody by the Jefferson County Drug Task Force March 21. Authorities allege Parker tried to flee the scene and when he realized police were chasing him, began tossing the drugs out of the car before crashing his vehicle.

• Damon Nichols Moore, 47, 2403 Commercial Ave., Mingo Junction, domestic violence, a felony, plus a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.

Authorities allege Moore assaulted his girlfriend on May 13 and “recklessly or by force, resisted or interfered” with officers trying to take him into custody. He previously had been convicted in Wintersville County Court in 2022 to domestic violence of a family or household member, elevating the current charge to felony status.

• Edward Allen Oxley, 34, 19 Tiro Lane, Adena, felony domestic violence, misdemeanor domestic violence and obstructing official business, also a misdemeanor.

The indictment alleges Oxley assaulted a family member on March 8. He had been convicted in Dillonvale County Court in January of beating the same woman, elevating the current case to felony status, authorities said.