Common Pleas

NEW CASES

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Jay D. Pitcher, East Fourth Street, Salem; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for West State Street, Salem property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon vs. Z. Doris Newton, Lower Elkton Road, Leetonia; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Lower Elkton Road, Leetonia property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Infiniti LLC, Esther Avenue, Wellsville, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Esther Avenue, Wellsville property.

State Ex Rel. Kevin J. Simballa and Kevin J. Simballa, both state Route 517, Lisbon, vs. Eric Vendel, chief Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Columbus, and Hilcorp Energy I, L.P., Columbus; ruling sought regarding compensation to plaintiff for property interest and damages sought for alleged breach of contract, unjust enrichment and conversion.

DOCKET ENTRIES

Cleo DeWitt vs. Tyler Burgess; divorce granted.

Joseph Bernier, doing business as Let It Roll Pizzeria, vs. estate of Vickie Lambert; tortious interference with business relationship claim denied, $3,956 judgment granted to plaintiff for breach of contract.

Capital One, N.A. vs. Cera Lockwood; case dismissed.

Clearview Federal Credit Union vs. Jacob S. Vantilburg; case dismissed.

Norma Hylton-Carr, et al. vs. Carter J. Melott; $9,142 judgment granted to plaintiff.

Municipal Court

LISBON– An East Palestine man is facing fines for permitting underage consumption.

Michael Schnelle, 38, Park Avenue, East Palestine, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 180 days suspended, 20 hours of community service, and fined $250 for permitting underage consumption and offenses involving underage persons for purchasing alcoholic beverages for a juvenile and permitting other juveniles to drink alcoholic beverages at his residence on Nov. 2.

Nicole Dean, 44, Benton Road, Salem, was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 30 days suspended, 20 hours of community service, and fined $150 for possession of drug paraphernalia for having plastic bag and cut straw with residue for use with narcotics in her vehicle during a traffic stop in Salem on March 5.

Richard Haught II, 56, Sunnyside Street, East Liverpool, was fined $3,000 suspended on condition of completing a payment plan for back taxes and paying all future taxes in a timely manner, for six counts of failure to file a city income tax return, for failing to file East Liverpool city income tax returns for tax years 2019 through 2024.

Ronni Delguzzo, 31, Tenth Street, Wellsville, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended, 20 hours community service, and fined $250 for complicity to commit theft for helping a man to conceal items from a St. Clair Township business with the purpose of stealing them on Feb. 21.

Christian Bell, 30, Quail Hollow, Massillon, was sentenced to 69 days in jail with credit for 69 days served, ordered to pay $500 restitution to the victim, and fined $200 for two counts of theft for stealing a man’s bag containing approximately $500, his house keys, and a wallet in East Liverpool on Dec. 3, and for stealing a box of chicken wings valued at $10 from an East Liverpool business on Dec. 16.

Dustin Wright, 29, Berry Road, Kensington, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended and 20 hours of community service, ordered to have no contact with the victim and fined $250 for violating a protection order, and a charge of disorderly conduct was dismissed, for being within 500 feet of the protected person at a Salem Business on March 27.

Kimberly Clay-Carillo, 57, South Maple Street, Orwell, was sentenced to 60 days in jail with 60 days suspended, 40 hours of community service, and fined $150 for soliciting prostitution for arranging to meet with an undercover agent from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force in Unity Township for sexual conduct in exchange for currency on March 2. Kayde Banister, 20, Cream Ridge Road, Lisbon, was fined $250 for OVI amended from underage OVI, and a taillight violation.

Samuel Davis, 25, Cricket Lane, Columbiana, was fined $615 for OVI and expired registration.

A pretrial was set May 27 for Travis Newman, 37, West Main Street, East Palestine, charged with domestic violence for allegedly shoving a woman into a cabinet and wrapping his hands around her neck leaving red marks and bruising in East Palestine on May 18.

A pretrial was set July 28 for Tyler McClish, 29, Ruble Street, Hanoverton, charged with violation of a protection order and menacing. The charge of menacing stems from incidents in Hanoverton when he allegedly threw a woman’s furniture off her porch and threatened to physically harm the woman, her roommate and cats on March 7, and allegedly threw a rock at a woman’s car damaging the trunk on March 8. The charge of violating a protection order stems from an incident in Hanoverton on April 18 when he allegedly made eye contact with the protected person and called her an obscene name.

A pretrial was set May 27 for Victo Oca, 34, Watson Street, Painesville, charged with criminal trespass for allegedly entering FCI Elkton’s property without permission and throwing illegal contraband onto their grounds on May 9.

A pretrial was set June 22 for Erica Sprankle, 42, state Route 151, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, charged with attempt to commit an offense, possessing criminal tools, possession of drug abuse instruments, and possession of drug paraphernalia for allegedly attempting to switch item tickets and conceal items from the store on her person at a St. Clair Township business and possessing hypodermic syringes, a glass smoking pipe and narcotics on her person at that time on May 18.

A pretrial was set July 21 for James Nelson, 38, South Street, Warren, charged with theft for allegedly failing to pay for 19 items totaling $117.29 in value at a St. Clair Township business on May 10.

A pretrial was set July 15 for Angel Santay, 19, Park Drive, Salem, charged with underage consumption, assured clear distance ahead, operating a motor vehicle without a valid license, and failure to stop after an accident for allegedly having open containers of alcohol inside his vehicle during a hit and skip investigation in Salem on May 17.

A pretrial was set July 13 for William Hernan, 24, Columbiana Canfield Road, Canfield, charged with OVI.

A case against D’Anthony Chaundel Brown, 32, Youngstown, was bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony operating a vehicle impaired fourth offense. Another case of OVI fourth offense, OVI breath fourth offense and misdemeanor left of center was dismissed, along with a speeding charge. Brown was accused of allegedly driving impaired with three prior OVI arrests within 10 years on his record on May 2 in Fairfield Township.

Cases against Richard Wayne Hutton, 32, St. George Street, East Liverpool, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony receiving stolen property and misdemeanor drug paraphernalia. During a traffic stop on May 1 in East Liverpool, when he stepped out of the vehicle, a burnt glass pipe allegedly fell out of his shorts and he possessed crack cocaine. He also allegedly possessed a loaded stolen .45-caliber handgun located inside his back pack with his belongings.

Cases against Bryan Keith Dilling, 54, last known address Rose Drive, Lisbon, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony failure to report change of address and misdemeanor falsification for allegedly failing to notify the sheriff’s office of his change of address for the sex offender registration on May 6 in Lisbon and giving the sheriff’s address a false address, for a property where he did not live.

Hayden J. Hunt, 21, Laurelville, was fined $1,165 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 167 days suspended, with credit for one day served in jail and three days served in a driver intervention program, leaving nine days to serve in jail and 30 days to serve in electronically monitored house arrest for failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a misdemeanor amended from a felony, and misdemeanors of operating a vehicle impaired first offense and reckless operation for fleeing from police in Salem on May 4 until he was stopped on a dead end road. He must complete 20 hours community service.

A pretrial was set June 1 for Tiffany Sobien, 26, Boyce Street, East Liverpool, charged with domestic violence for allegedly hitting a child, causing injury, and then telling the child to lie about it on May 7 in East Liverpool.

A pretrial was set May 27 for Nicholas Devan Gardner, 53, Globe Street, East Liverpool, charged with endangering children and domestic violence for allegedly picking up two knives while yelling at a woman and slamming them off the top of the stove, breaking the stove top, while cursing at a child and then throwing the knives on the ground, with one almost striking the child in the leg on May 19 in East Liverpool.

Timothy Franklin Gibbs, 38, College Street, East Liverpool, was fined $150 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 20 days suspended and credit for 10 days served, for disorderly conduct amended from assault, with 20 hours community service ordered. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim. Gibbs struck another man four times in the side of the head on May 9 in East Liverpool.

A pretrial was set July 20 for Heather E Walsh, 40, Youngstown, charged with menacing for allegedly threatening to beat a woman on May 19 in East Liverpool,

Crystal Lee Shreve, 47, Florence Street, East Liverpool, was fined $150 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for menacing, with 20 hours community service ordered. She was ordered to have no contact with the victim. She threatened to beat another woman on Feb. 21 in East Liverpool.

Tammy Joe Manley, 27, Riley Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $200 and received a suspended 180-day jail term for two counts endangering children for having two children out in 35-degree weather wearing only shorts and a shirt with no socks and no jacket in East Liverpool on Nov. 29, 2025.

A pretrial was set July 21 for Richard G. Prendergast, 64, South Lundy Avenue, Salem, charged with public indecency for allegedly pulling his pants down and defecating in the Salem Family Care parking lot on May 4 in Salem.

Timothy R. Noling, 64, Brookdale Avenue, East Palestine, was fined $200 and received credit for jail time served for one day for disorderly conduct for using loud and abusive language with post office employees at the East Palestine Post Office on May 19

Sonya M. Andric, 55, Gaskill Drive, Alliance, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating the terms of his probation for 2025 cases of criminal trespass, drug paraphernalia and two cases of theft..

Donna J. May, 39, Sell Road, Lisbon, was fined $350 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for criminal damaging and drug paraphernalia, with 40 hours community service ordered. She hit her head off of a wall and punched a door, damaging both on Feb. 28 in Center Township. She also possessed three clear pipes with burnt crystal residue and clear baggies with a white crystal substance on March 9.

Ryan D. Armstrong, 41, Depot Road, Salem, was fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days in jail for theft for failing to scan and pay for several items totaling $34 on Feb. 16 at the Salem Walmart.

A status conference hearing was set June 17 for Charles Raymond Lewis, 43, Dresden Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with theft and criminal trespass for allegedly stealing wood and tire rings from the former East Liverpool Motor Lodge after trespassing on the Dresden Avenue property.

A status conference hearing was set July 15 and a court trial was set July 22 for David M. Butcher, 53, Woodland Avenue, Salem, charged with criminal trespass for allegedly trespassing in a Salem apartment on Third Street on March 9.

A pretrial was set July 21 for Dana A. Musulin, 43, Taylor Road, Negley, charged with drug paraphernalia for allegedly possessing a glass pipe with burn marks, a torch lighter, a container with a pink substance and a pink and white rock substance on May 19 in East Palestine.

A pretrial was set July 8 for Logan L. Peters, 19, Spencerville, charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle and speeding for allegedly possessing two handguns in his vehicle during a traffic stop on April 25 in Leetonia.

A pretrial was set July 21 for Sherry Diana Long, 42, West Martin Street, East Palestine, charged with operating a vehicle impaired first offense, OVI urine and reasonable control.

Daniel Lee Marriotti, 29, Pancake Clarkson Road, Rogers, was fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 27 days suspended, leaving three days to serve in jail for reckless operation amended from OVI, with a charge of slow speed dismissed. His license was suspended for two years, with 20 hours community service ordered.

Vincent Syversten, 28, Salem Alliance Road, Salem, was fined $925 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 170 days suspended, leaving 10 days to serve for OVI and failure to control. His license was suspended for two years, with 20 hours community service ordered.

A disposition hearing was set May 20 for Kevin Eugene Bowen, 50, Darlington, Pa., charged with OVI second offense, OVI breath second offense and reasonable control.

A pretrial was set June 1 for Pete L. Gibson, 41, state Route 154, Rogers, charged with aggravated menacing for allegedly threatening to shoot another person in the head in New Waterford on May 17.

Steven J. Cappitte, 41, Southeast Boulevard, Salem, was fined $750 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 83 days suspended and credit for two days served, leaving a balance of five days to serve in jail for disorderly conduct and obstructing official business. He was ordered to complete 40 hours community service. Cappitte shoved a woman in the face and chased her into the street on Feb. 8 in Salem. During the incident, he kept slamming the door of the home and fled inside when officers approached to take him into custody.

Matthew Christopher Ward, 37, Michigan Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $150 and sentenced to three days in jail, with credit for three days served, for disorderly conduct for throwing a water bottle at a fence and vehicle in East Liverpool, and arguing and yelling at people who were outside on May 15.

George M. McGinness, 48, North Market Street, East Palestine, was fined $250 and given a suspended 60-day jail term for obstructing official business and disorderly conduct. A charge of criminal trespass was dismissed. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service and to have no contact with the victim. He trespassed in a New Waterford property and stayed after being told to leave and attempted to open the locked door on April 10.

Jeffrey Nelson James, 46, Seventh Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $650 and sentenced to 30 days in jail for physical control amended from OVI and disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence, with another OVI suspended. His license was suspended for one year. James shoved a woman into a bath tub causing injury on Oct. 6, 2025 in Liverpool Township. He was also ordered to serve 60 days in jail for violating the terms of his probation for 2025 cases of OVI, physical control and disorderly conduct.

Paul Joseph Schrag, 36, Deerfield, was fined $250 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer for fleeing from police during a pursuit after a hit/skip in Salem on Jan. 20. His license was suspended for 180 days, with driving privileges granted, and he was ordered to complete 20 hours community service.

Alyssa D. Evans, 31, Bradshaw Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $400 and given a suspended 180-day jail term for theft and endangering children. On Jan. 10 in Wellsville, she struck a parked car while a child was in the vehicle. On Jan. 6, she pocketed some items and didn’t scan others, all totaling $39 at the Salem Walmart.

A status conference hearing was set July 6 and a court trial was set July 13 for Stephanie J. Igo, 37, Bell Road, Negley, charged with theft for allegedly stealing two weld-pads and multiple battery-power tools from a garage on Jan. 27 in Negley.

Amanda Clara Regal, 39, East Springfield, was fined $100 for failure to file tax return for failing to file a sales tax return in 2025 for The Corner Pocket in Leetonia.

Frankie L. Brown, 37, Vernia Street, East Liverpool, was fined $100 for failure to file tax return for failing to file a sales tax return from July to December 2025 for AFK Gaming in East Liverpool.

Isaiah J. Carl, 18, West State Street, Salem, was fined $150 and sentenced to 10 days in jail, with credit for one day served, leaving nine days to serve for drug paraphernalia for possessing a meth pipe on May 17 in Perry Township.

Connin Scott Craig, 22, King Road, Salem, was fined $665 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 87 days suspended and credit for three days served in a driver intervention program, for operating a vehicle impaired first offense, marked lanes and no turn signal. His license was suspended for one year with driving privileges granted. Another OVI charge was dismissed. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service.

A pretrial was set July 29 for Charlene Taylor, 74, Kingsridge Road, East Liverpool, charged with OVI first offense, OVI breath first offense and reasonable control.

A pretrial was set June 8 for David R. Winters, 41, Walnut Street, Leetonia, charged with OVI first offense, OVI refusal with prior within 20 years, speeding and marked lanes.

Tyler Shaffer, 26, New Bethlehem, Pa., was fined $300 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 27 days suspended and credit for three days served in a driver intervention program, for reckless operation amended from OVI and speeding. Another OVI charge was dismissed