Common Pleas

NEW CASES

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Charlotte M. French, Virginia Avenue, Minerva, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Virginia Avenue, Minerva property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. unknown heirs, etc. of Loretta Pshsniak, no address listed, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for West Fourth Street, Salem property.

Amy Lynn Demarest, Forsyth Place, East Liverpool, and David Aaron Demarest, Forsyth Place, East Liverpool; dissolution sought.

DOCKET ENTRIES

Accelerated Inventory Management LLC vs. Jeremy Martin; $17,752 judgment granted to plaintiff.

Brian Noble vs. East Liverpool City Health District, Board of Health, et al.; case dismissed.

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC vs. Jonathan D. Cook, et al.; mortgage foreclosure ordered for Oak Street, Leetonia property.

Sarah E. Beech and Brian Beech; dissolution granted.

County Treasurer vs. Evergreen Living LLC, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure ordered for Mahoning Avenue, Alliance property.

County Treasurer vs. Rhonda Phillips, et al.; payment plan entered, case stayed.

County Treasurer vs. Rebecca Lynn Paulos; delinquent property tax foreclosure ordered for North Shore Drive, Beloit property.

Grand Jury

LISBON — Justin D. Gunther, 45, Midland, Pa., was served Thursday with a secret indictment issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury for third-degree felony possession of a fentanyl-related compound, fourth-degree felony possession of heroin and fifth-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs for allegedly possessing 5 to 10 grams of fentanyl, 1 to 5 grams of heroin and possessing methamphetamine, all on March 20, 2025.

Municipal

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Christopher Allan Dorsey, 45, Erie Street, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury for fifth-degree felony violation of a protection order for allegedly walking through a protected person’s yard on May 27 in East Liverpool, seen on camera walking through the yard to take a picture of a vehicle and then walking back through the yard. Another charge of violation of a protection order, a misdemeanor, was dismissed

A case against John Carl Reinhart, 54, East Clark Street, East Palestine, was bound over to the county grand jury for third-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly hitting a woman in the face and putting his hands over her throat on May 27 in East Palestine.

A status conference hearing was set Aug. 10 and a court trial was set Aug. 26 for Amanda M. Kiger, 52, Center Street, East Liverpool, charged with domestic violence for allegedly striking a man in the face with her knee on April 4 in East Liverpool.

John M. Corradi, 37, Midland, Pa., was fined $700 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 165 days suspended and credit for eight days served, leaving a balance of seven days still to serve in jail, with 40 hours community service ordered for domestic violence and aggravated menacing for being aggressive toward a woman and destroying a tire on her vehicle on March 9 in St. Clair Township. On May 17, he made statements about coming to burn the woman’s house down in St. Clair Township.

Zachary S. Rexroad, 26, Minerva Street, East Liverpool, was fined $550 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 178 days suspended and credit for two days served, for assault, unlawful restraint and obstructing official business amended from disruption of public services, with 20 hours community service ordered. Rexroad was ordered to have no contact with the victim. He screamed at a woman, grabbed the phone from her hand when she was going to call 911, then slammed her to the floor and pinned her down when she attempted to get the phone back on May 18 in East Liverpool. Once she was able to get up, he wouldn’t let her leave and she locked herself in a room, opening the window to yell for help.

Matthew Christopher Ward, 38, Michigan Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $200 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with credit for 10 days served, leaving 20 days still to serve in jail for aggravated menacing and theft for stealing medical supplies from Trinity Professional Group in East Liverpool on May 22 and making threats against police officers for allegedly taking his medication a few days before that.

Kily Wright, 25, Pennsylvania Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $350 and given a suspended 180-day jail term for endangering children, with 20 hours community service ordered. She was accused of creating a risk to a child when a 4-year-old ate two THC gummies of 1,000 mg each while Wright was asleep on Feb. 27 in East Liverpool.

Cody Hedge, 18, Wilbert Avenue, East Liverpool, was ordered evaluated for sanity and competency by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio for a menacing case for allegedly threatening to burn a woman’s house down on May 26 in East Liverpool.

A pretrial was set June 17 for Daniel Polanco Castillo, 40, Bronx, N.Y., charged with assault and theft for allegedly assaulting a woman, grabbing a phone and running off with it on June 2 in Liverpool Township. According to the affidavit, the victim said he was a solicitor and she recovered her phone in a yard where he had deleted photos and a recording of himself before throwing her phone into the yard.

George Edward Faulkner, 39, state Route 14, East Palestine, was fined $200 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with credit for 16 days served, leaving a balance of 14 days to serve in jail for telecommunications harassment and menacing for sending threatening text messages to a man on Nov. 2, 2025 in East Palestine

Blaine S. Perry II, 39, First Street, Wellsville, was fined $200 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 11 days suspended and credit for 19 days served, for disorderly conduct amended from assault, with 20 hours community service ordered. He head butted a woman during an argument on Jan. 27, 2024 in Wellsville.