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POLICE REPORTS

SALEM

— Officers responded to the area of North Ellsworth Avenue and West 13th Street at 1:17 a.m. Thursday in reference to suspicious lights in the area. Officers were unable to locate the lights.

— Officers responded to the 800 block of South Ellsworth Avenue at 7:51 a.m. Thursday where a man reported someone he knows was dumping trash in his dumpster. Officers contacted the other person who agreed to remove the items.

— Officers responded to an Arch Street home at 10:35 a.m. Thursday in reference to a civil matter and stood by while the complainant removed property from the residence.

— A woman and her juvenile granddaughter reported on station at 12:28 p.m. Thursday that the granddaughter had been shopping at a 2800 block East State Street business and had her wallet containing an envelope with $118 inside sitting in the top section of the shopping cart. The granddaughter said she was looking at wallets and noticed the envelope missing when she left the area.

— Officers responded to a 1400 block Oak Street home at 12:36 p.m. Thursday in reference to an unruly juvenile and found that the juvenile was upset because her mother would not let her go to the pool. She was advised that she had to listen to her mother.

— Officers responded to a 1200 block East Fourth Street home at 12:57 p.m. Thursday where the resident reported a female juvenile in the neighborhood had been bullying her children. The juvenile was not in the area when officers arrived and they were unable to contact her parents.

— Officers responded to a verbal dispute in the 600 block of East Sixth Street at 3:06 p.m. Thursday and found that two women had arrived at the home to confront a female resident who they said made a statement to one of their children. The women were advised to leave the property.

— Sheldon J. Ludt, 22, West Main Street, Washingtonville, was arrested on an active warrant out of the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear on an underage consumption charge after an officer observed him driving in the 100 block of North Lincoln Avenue at 3:42 p.m. Thursday and knew him to have a warrant for his arrest.

— Officers responded to an 800 block Summit Street home at 5:14 p.m. Thursday in reference to a dispute and found that the male resident was intoxicated and attempting to take keys from the female resident, who struck him in the nose with a shoe during the scuffle. Medical personnel responded, but the man declined treatment. Neither resident wished to press charges and the man agreed to stay at the neighbor’s for the night.

— Police responded to the area of North Lincoln Avenue and East Fifth Street at 6:03 p.m. Thursday in reference to a man striking a teenage girl and throwing her to the ground. Officers located the people involved and found that the man had slapped his granddaughter for being verbally disrespectful to his wife. The girl had no injuries but said her grandfather had also thrown her to the ground and punched her. The matter was forwarded to children services.

— An officer responded to an 800 block Highland Avenue home at 6:38 p.m. Thursday after a man flagged him down in reference to a computer fraud case in which his client had provided her bank number to a caller who claimed to be working for Microsoft stating her computer had a virus.

— Officers responded with the fire department at 7:57 p.m. Thursday to a report of an unattended fire in the 700 block of Southeast Boulevard. They spoke with the resident and explained the open burning laws before extinguishing the fire.

— An officer responded to the Waterworth Memorial dog park at 8:45 p.m. Thursday where someone reported a vicious dog had bitten her dog. The owner of the suspected dog had already left, but the officer was able to locate the vehicle in which they left. The owner said that the two pit bulls had been playing too rough and had cornered the other dog, but that they did not bite the other dog. No injury was found on the other dog, but the owner said she was concerned about future incidents.

— Patrolling officers at 10:28 p.m. Thursday observed multiple vehicles in the Centennial Park parking lot with their headlights on and found that one of the vehicles had been having mechanical issues and the owner was just finishing fixing it.

— Officers responded to a 1400 block East State Street home at 11:11 p.m. Thursday where the resident reported her 14-year-old female ward had run away on foot and that she did not want the girl returned to the home due to issues with her and the other children at the home. The teen was located and returned to the home to discuss her actions, at which time she was charged with domestic violence and transported to the Tobin Center.

— A man reported on station at 11:52 p.m. Thursday that a man he knows had been following him in the streets threatening him with physical violence. The man requested an escort back to his vehicle in the 100 block of North Lincoln Street where the man was supposed to be waiting. Officers were unable to find the man in question.

— An officer responded to the 1300 block of South Lincoln Avenue at 12:04 a.m. Friday where someone reported seeing two individuals enter a vehicle at the apartment complex then run away when they saw him. The door of the vehicle was still open and it appeared to have been ransacked. The owner of the vehicle checked it and said there did not appear to be anything missing.

GOSHEN POLICE DISTRICT

— Eric Dean White, 25, East Pidgeon Road, Salem, was charged with operating a vehicle intoxicated and open container following a traffic stop at state routes 14 and 165 at 1:23 a.m. Monday.

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