POLICE
Sheriff’s Office
— A deputy responded to Grant Street, Center Township, at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday for a report of threats by a neighbor. The caller reported the other woman was harassing her, saying she was a demon, screaming and stomping around in the upstairs apartment. While the deputy was talking to the caller, the woman was yelling out the window. When the deputy spoke to the woman, she allegedly was babbling about God, the government, the Marine Corps and other subjects. When asked if she needed to go to the hospital, she said she was fine and complained doctors were poisoning her with medication. There was a warrant for the woman out of Stark County for trespass, so the woman, Sherry Salisbury, Grant Street, Lisbon, was taken into custody and taken to the county line at state routes 172 and 183 where a Stark County sheriff’s deputy took her into custody.
— A deputy was dispatched at 7:57 p.m. July 9 to assist St. Clair Township Police Department with a possible domestic around the area of state Route 7 in Madison Township. The deputy found everything to be verbal. Both parties agreed to be civil.
— A welfare check was requested at 9:30 p.m. July 9 in the area of Hadley Road. A deputy made contact with the person, who was fine.
Highway Patrol
— William Dawson, of Sebring, was cited at 12:30 p.m. June 24 for failure to control in Butler Township. Dawson was traveling westbound on Georgetown Road, when he went off the right side of the road, striking a fence before fleeing the scene.
— Jaxson Rose, of Fairfield School Road in Leetonia, was cited at 3:26 p.m. July 5 in Perry Township for a stop sign violation. Rose was eastbound on CR400 when he failed to obey a stop sign and struck a vehicle driven by Glenn McNamey, of state Route 45 in Salem, and Thomas Kelly, of Georgetown Road in Salem.
— Zachary Krafft, of Stevens Drive in Lisbon, was cited at 5:25 p.m. June 30 in Hanover Township for failure to control. Krafft had been operating his southbound vehicle on state Route 9, traveled off the right side of the road and struck a treeline.
— Erin Griffith, of Shamrock Arbor Drive in Salem, was cited at 2:02 p.m. July 5 in Knox Township for failure to maintain an assured clear distance. Griffith had been traveling eastbound behind Amy Morris, of Ellett Road in Beloit, when she struck her from behind when Morris stopped to turn left onto CR77.
Leetonia
— An officer provided Columbiana County deputies with a standby at 2:15 a.m. July 5 near state routes 344 and 558 while they conducted a domestic violence investigation.
— An officer responded at 7:18 p.m. July7 to the 100 block of Chestnut Street, where he investigated an alleged father and son assault. The father relayed it had been the result of the father serving his son with an eviction notice, after discovering the son had been using meth again. The father had no visible injuries.
— An officer served a 24-hour notice to tenant’s rental problem in the first block of Pine Street on her behalf, allowing her to enter the premises.
— An unruly juvenile was visited at 10:34 p.m. July 8 by an officer in the process of trying to leave his residence in the 100 block of Main Street.
— Police notified Shane Meade at 5:18 p.m. July 8 that he was trespassed from a property in the 300 block of Ridge Street.
— An officer was sent at 5:16 p.m. July 8 to the 200 block of Oak Street, where subjects complained about damages done to a residence where they had been permitting Peggy Gregorino and Tim Holloway to stay.
— Police responded to an alarm drop at 8:57 p.m. July 7 in Leetonia Public Library and found everything fine.
— A disabled vehicle was towed at 9:23 p.m. July 10 from the northbound lane of Lisbon Street near Waddell Street, after numerous attempts to contact the registered owner.
— A resident of the 300 block of Walnut Street advised at 9:35 a.m. July 13 that someone unknown had removed two mud towers from his property without permission, although he couldn’t pinpoint when.
— A woman in the first block of Main Street reported at 9:05 p.m. July 15 that she had picked up an old family friend to drive him to Columbiana due to the hot temperatures. During the drive over, he kept making sexually charged comments to her and revealed he is on “probation for beating a girl.” Also on July 15, he showed up at her house, wanting to use her shower. With the help of her cousin, she was able to get him to leave, and the woman wanted the man, who was apparently living on Beechwood in Columbiana, trespassed from her residence and he verbally was by a Leetonia police officer.
Columbiana
— Police responded at 10:55 a.m. July 12 to the 300 block of West Park to assist EMS at a suspected drug call.
— Jefferey Laroche, of East Palestine, was cited at 1:37 a.m. July 11 for driving under suspension (failure to reinstate) as well as the vehicle’s owner, Rachel Evans, for wrongful entrustment for allowing him to drive the vehicle without a valid license.
— Officers responded at 7:37 p.m. July 9 to the parking lot at Subway in the first block of North Main Street for a private property accident.
— Police took a report for a private property crash at 8:57 a.m. July 7 in the parking lot of Hogan’s Baking Company.
— Responding to a disturbance at Dunkin Donuts at 3:38 p.m. July 5, police arrested James Engel, 56, of Rogers, on a charge of menacing and transported him to Columbiana County Jail for causing a disturbance.
— Judy Wilson, of East Palestine, was served with an active warrant through Columbiana County at 11 p.m. July 3 during a traffic stop near state Route 14 and Town Center Avenue.
— Brandon McCaskell, of Columbiana, was cited at 8:08 p.m. July 3 for a stop sign violation near East Park Avenue and Fitzpatrick Street.
— A caller reported at 1:06 p..m. July 2 that an unknown subject had used their credit card information to try and purchase a Range Rover in Huntington Beach, Calif. unsuccessfully.
— Police investigated a hit-skip at 3:42 p.m. July 1 at the Quik Mart in the first block of West Park Avenue.
East Palestine
— Officers observed at 8:27 p.m. on Monday a juvenile riding a gas-powered bike on East Taggart Street and advised him not to ride the bike in town. The juvenile then walked the bike back to his residence.
— Officers responded at 7:16 p.m. Monday to reports of a reckless driver speeding in town. Officers located the vehicle and followed it out of town without witnessing reckless driving or speed.
— Officers responded at 4:16 p.m. to North Market Street on Monday for a traffic complaint involving mini-bikes on the roadway. Officers were unable to locate any bikes.
— Officers responded at 5:30 p.m. to an on-station complaint of telecommunications harassment on Monday.
— Officers responded at 5:36 p.m. to back up a sheriff deputy at the Dollar Store on state Route 14 for a male acting unusual on Sunday.
— Officers responded at 3:47 p.m. to West Main Street on Sunday to a report of someone wanting a person removed from their property who was living there. Officers advised of the eviction process.
— Officers responded at 2:56 p.m. on Sunday regarding a domestic complaint on McClure Avenue.
— Officers responded at 1:39 to two residents on East North Avenue on Sunday for a zoning violation involving junk vehicles. A notice will be sent to the owner of the vehicles.
— Officers responded at 1:38 p.m. to East Clark Street on Sunday for a zoning violation involving a junk vehicle. A notice will be sent to the owner of the vehicle.
— Officers responded at 7:20 a.m. on Sunday to Garfield Street to a report of an unresponsive woman. Officers performed CPR until EMS arrived and attempted several life-saving efforts. The female was declared deceased a short time after.