SALEM

– Officers were requested at 10:46 a.m. Monday to deliver a message to an address on Benton Road for Leetonia Police, but no one was home.

– Police were called at 9:09 a.m. Monday to the 1400 block of Maple Street near Centennial Park for a report of drug paraphernalia. A woman said there were several syringes in the playground area. Officers checked the entire area, but were unable to locate any. They advised several parents in the area with their children to be cautious and call police if they find any drug paraphernalia.

– Michelle Hum, of the 400 block of Ohio Avenue, reported at 8:44 a.m. Monday that sometime in the last few nights, fuel was siphoned from her vehicle’s gas tank. She was told to call if she sees anyone acting suspicious in the area and that she might want to invest in a locking gas cap.

– Luke Worden, of the 200 block of Rose Avenue, reported at 2:44 a.m. Monday that two tires on his girlfriend’s mother’s car were slashed.

– A man on North Lincoln Avenue reported at 11:01 p.m. Sunday that he suffered a puncture wound to his hand while using the bathroom at Walmart, 2875 E. State St., at 8:30 p.m., saying that someone had placed an unfastened safety pin out of sight beneath the toilet paper roll. Upon him grasping from the roll, the pin stuck in his right hand. He notified employees and a manager and the bathroom was temporarily closed and thoroughly inspected by employees. He went to Salem Regional Medical Center for treatment and provided the safety pin to police, asking if any test could be performed on it. Officers will consult with a detective on the matter and return the item to the person once any further investigation is concluded.

– An officer was flagged down at 9:36 p.m. Sunday in the 100 block of West State Street where a friendly, well-cared for dog was left tied to a post at a gas station. The officer recognized the dog and contacted the owner, who responded to retrieve it. The owner’s daughter had taken the dog for a walk and stopped at the store where she met up with friends and forgot she secured the dog outside. She left in a vehicle and only realized what she had done when the owner called to find out why the dog had been left behind.

– A domestic was reported at 8:46 p.m. Sunday in the 300 block of South Madison. Officers spoke with a female they knew who said she had a dispute with her boyfriend while walking and he took off after she called police. She said it was mainly verbal, but he bumped and pushed her. He could not be found. She was told her options, then called back later to say he had been driving past where she was walking. He still could not be found.

– A reckless driver was reported at 8:30 p.m. Sunday on East Third Street and Roosevelt, but officers responded and did not see any violations. They ran radar in the area later in the shift.

– Open burning was reported at 8:26 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of East Fifth Street. The fire department was already on scene and spoke with the person tending to the fire. It was a legal cookout, but some improper items had been burned. Firefighters instructed the person on the proper wood to be burned.

– Officers on patrol at 7:17 p.m. Sunday saw a small child about 3 years old riding a battery-powered 4-wheeler on the sidewalk in the 900 block of Prospect Street without any adults in the area. Officers made contact with the child, then his father who had been in a backyard at a nearby residence. He took the child back home.

– A woman in the 700 block of North Lincoln Avenue at 6 p.m. Sunday requested documentation of repeated verbal disputes with a neighborhood resident over the property line and an insurance claim from recent storm damage from a falling tree. She said the insurance company of the resident whose property was where the tree had been located had already begun processing the claim and made arrangements to cover expenses as a result of the damage. The resident’s adult daughter who resides several houses down had been engaged in verbal disputes with her and her husband over the issue and she wanted it documented. She was told if the problem persists, call police and an officer will follow up with the person causing the problem.

– Police were asked at 5:36 p.m. Sunday to check with the relative of a person from Salem, Virginia about the whereabouts of the Virginia resident. A neighbor of the person had called Salem, Va. police to do a welfare check since the person had not been seen. Contact was made with a brother who said the person was fine.

– Police were called at 5:07 p.m. Sunday to check on an animal complaint in the 1800 block of East State Street. The animal was inside a vehicle with all the windows partially open. The animal appeared to be just fine.

– An open door was reported at 5:01 p.m. Sunday on Allen Road. The officer secured the door on the storage trailer.

PERRY TWP.

– Kimberly Vandress, 52, of Beloit, was cited for operating a vehicle under the influence and left of center after a traffic stop at 12:15 a.m. Monday for a lane violation on West State Street. The report said the operator of the vehicle was found to be under the influence of numerous pills and transported by EMT Ambulance to Salem Regional Medical Center. Vandress was issued her citation when police responded to the hospital.

– A suspicious person was reported looking in a vehicle’s windows in the 1000 block of Jones Drive at 11:54 p.m. Sunday, but no one was found.

– A complaint about someone discharging a firearm after dark near a residential area was reported at 9:37 p.m. Sunday in the area of Idaho Avenue. An officer located the source and spoke to a person who discharged the weapon to quiet a nuisance varmint. The person was told to stop due to the time of night and proximity to other residences.

– A deputy sheriff serving papers at a residence on Benton Road heard a gunshot close by and asked a township officer at 9:17 p.m. Sunday to assist him in searching for the source of the gunshot. Officers were unable to locate the source, but another complaint for the same issue gave the location of the gunshot and an officer spoke with that person about discharging firearms after dark and about backstops.

– Police were asked at 7:07 p.m. Sunday to check the welfare of residents on Southridge Drive after neighbors had not seen any traffic there for a few days. No one was found at the residence.

– A woman on West Perry Street reported at 3:20 p.m. Sunday that someone known to her entered her apartment and removed items belonging to that person and damaged the lock in the process. The other person claimed the lock had already been damaged and they did not cause it. A report was made for the landlord.

– A resident reported a two-door white vehicle being driven recklessly up and down the road on Garfield Road in the 1300 block at 2:10 p.m. Sunday.

– A domestic dispute was reported at 9:57 p.m. Friday after neighbors heard yelling coming from an apartment on West Perry Street. Police learned it was a verbal argument only and there were no problems. They were told to keep the volume down.

– A resident in the 1300 block of West State Street called at 8:25 p.m. Friday to report hearing gunshots. Police spoke with multiple people outdoors who heard the shots and claimed they came from south of West State Street and east of state Route 45. Officers were unable to find any source.

LISBON

– Police were called to the corner of North Beaver and West Pine streets at 7:41 p.m. May 12 in regard to an elderly man who had fallen. The man was identified as Al Crothers from the Allay Senior Care Center, and he was bleeding from the head. Crothers was transported by ambulance to a local hospital.

– Chris Szaeo of the Karvo Paving Co., which is doing paving in town, reported Friday he suspects William Catlett of stealing road grindings from its stockpile at the D.W. Dickey & Sons lot on East Washington Street. Catlett was contacted and said he paid for three truck loads of grindings from Karvo prior to April 29. Police then spoke with Dick Cope from D.W. Dickey, who said saw Catlett, who told him he hard purchased grindings. Cope thinks someone from Karvo took a payment under the table and then loaded it for Catlett because there is no way Catlett could have gotten those grindings in the middle of the day without someone from Karvo loading it for him.

– Police were called to West High Street at 10:23 p.m. Saturday in regard to a father and his juvenile-age daughter over her cellphone. The daughter said he father had threatened to take the cellphone she purchased and smash it because she was being unruly. Just then, her father came downstairs and the daughter began screaming at him. She then threw her cellphone on the ground and began stomping on it, and the officer had to step between her and her father. Meanwhile, police determined there was arrest warrant for the father out of Belmont County, and Ron Inman was taken into custody. Meanwhile, the daughter was told to mind her stepmother.

– Joseph Castelucci, South Lincoln Avenue, reported Sunday afternoon Jesse Cote had pulled into his driveway and then did burnouts when he left after Castelucci refused to speak with him.

– Alisa Hall was at the St. George Catholic Church rectory at 7:18 a.m. Sunday when she heard a radio playing upstairs. Police found an alarm clock on the second floor that had been set for 6:30 a.m.

– Thomas Gushert III, Exchange Street, reported Sunday his 1985 Suburban was stolen from his driveway overnight.

– The security alarm at Cherished Children was going off at 9:30 p.m. Friday, and police arrived to find the building to be secure.

– Police were called to the Sparkle supermarket lot at 11 p.m. Friday to assist a county sheriff’s deputy who found a man sleeping on the ground near the entrance. The man said he was homeless and just looking for a place to sleep for the night. The deputy sent the man on his way.

-Police responded to a barking dog complaint in the 300 block of East Washington Street at 8:29 a.m. Sunday. Police did not hear any barking dogs when they arrived.

– A caller reported there was a dog chasing the mailman and juveniles in the area of Sherman and Hostettler streets at 11:26 a.m. Saturday. Police found a little black dog, which was very aggressive and attempted to bite the officer. Police contacted the unidentified owner, who was warned that she could not have her dog running loose and trying to bite people. She told police this would not happen again.

COLUMBIANA

– A woman reported at 12:37 a.m. Sunday a suspicious man was staring at her and some other people from behind the bushes in their backyard on Fairfield Avenue. Police checked but did not find the man.

– Police found a small child’s bicycle in the middle of the traffic circle at 3:19 a.m. Sunday and moved it from the road.

– A Bell Avenue man reported at 12:27 p.m. Sunday his vehicle was entered during the night.

– An East Park Avenue man reported at 12:49 p.m. Sunday a large basket of pink petunias was stolen from his porch.

– A North Pearl Street man reported at 1 p.m. Sunday there was a man walking and dancing in the middle of North Pearl Street who was wearing headphones and wasn’t paying attention to cars coming down the road. Police found the man and warned him of the complaint.

– Danny Lockard, requested at 1:29 p.m. Sunday police accompany him to a Howard Street home so he could serve an eviction notice. Lockard changed his mind while on the way there, however.

– A Firestone Avenue woman reported at 3:49 p.m. Sunday a three-year-old went missing from a home there. Police found the boy.

– Rachel McDaniel, James Street, reported at 4:42 p.m. Sunday someone removed items from her vehicle during the night.

– Ronald Hagen, 54, Columbiana, was arrested for domestic violence at 221 W. Park Ave. at 8:13 pm. Sunday.

– A woman reported at 9:35 p.m. Sunday a man was going through the trash at Lantern Square apartments. Police checked the area but did not find the man.

– Brenda Martin, Fairfield Avenue, reported at 9:58 p.m. Sunday someone removed about two gallons of gasoline from her 2006 red Buick parked in the driveway.

– Lynn E. Stewart, 56, North Main Street, was cited for assured clear distance after striking the back of a vehicle driven by John P. Sullivan, 60, Petersburg, while she was pulling from the Duke and Duchess parking lot and Sullivan was southbound on state Route 164 at 10 p.m. Friday.

– A man reported at 1:27 p.m. Saturday a woman and man had been hanging out along Heck Road for a while with no car around. Police checked on the couple and found the woman had been involved in a bicycle crash but it was outside city limits. The county sheriff’s office was notified.

– Kim Gamble, South Vine Street, reported at 5 p.m. Saturday a child at the home was being unruly. Police spoke with the child.

– April Seibert, Spruce Street, reported at 5:10 p.m. Saturday her 14-year-old son was being unruly.

– Police assisted the highway patrol with a vehicle accident on Columbiana-Waterford Road at 11:12 p.m. Saturday.

– A man reported at 5:23 a.m. Friday an RV was broken down on state Route 7 near the candle shop. Police checked and found it to be part of the Men’s Rally in the Valley following their walkers.

– A man reported at 6:27 a.m. Friday Richard Gorcheff was hitting the ATM machine at Chase Bank with his walker and screaming at it. Police checked on him and showed him the correct way to use the machine.

– Police warned an Oak Street resident for allowing their dog to run at large at 10:34 a.m. Friday after receiving a complaint.

– Greg Raneri, West Salem Street, reported at noon Friday he wanted to press theft charges on his ex-girlfriend.

– Jenny Wehr, East Park Avenue, reported at 1:19 p.m. Friday there was an opossum in the back yard that wasn’t dead yet. Police euthanized the animal.

– Cara English, South Main Street, reported at 8:16 p.m. Friday her son’s bicycle was taken from the home. Police found the bicycle later and stood by until the person who took it returned it to the boy.