Grand jury

LISBON – Open indictments recently issued the Columbiana County Grand Jury include the following:

— Megan J. Gregg, 36, 20th Street, Wellsville, was placed under community control for five years and ordered to make restitution of $28,011 after pleading guilty to illegal use of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits or WIC program benefits, a third-degree felony. The illegal use happened between Nov. 13, 2020 and May 31, 2025.

— Michael N. Young, 45, Ravine Street, East Liverpool, was placed under community control for 18 months after pleading guilty to a lesser offense of attempted unauthorized use of a vehicle, a misdemeanor originally a felony. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 117 days suspended and credit for 63 days served, leaving no time to serve. On April 20, 2024, he used a car without consent of the owner.

— Taylor Stevie Nichole Thrasher, 27, Main Street, Wellsville, was sentenced to six months in prison, with credit for one day served, after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine, a fifth-degree felony for possessing cocaine on Sept. 1, 2024.

— Patrick J. Dilworth III, 39, New Springfield, was sentenced to nine months in prison for a lesser-included offense of attempted compelling prostitution, a fourth-degree felony, and possessing criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony. The original charge was compelling prostitution, a third-degree felony. He was designated a Tier II sex offender with a requirement for registration. He was accused of responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website of a juvenile female being portrayed as a foster child runaway and arranging to have sexual activity with her in exchange for $140, then traveling to East Palestine on Nov. 19, 2025 for the meeting with the phone used to make the arrangements in his possession.

— Robert A. Gephart II, 40, Ashtabula, was sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to a lesser-included offense of attempted compelling prostitution, originally third-degree felony compelling prostitution, and attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a fourth-degree felony. Charges of importuning and possessing criminal tools will be dismissed and he was designated a Tier II sex offender with a registration requirement. The prison term was ordered served consecutive to any sentence out of Ashtabula County.

Municipal

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Isaiah J. Carl, 18, West State Street, Salem, was bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony burglary and three counts of fifth-degree felony harassment by an inmate for allegedly trespassing at a residence in Salem on June 4 by forcefully pushing in the door while the residents were sleeping, then fleeing the scene. He had been trespassed from the property the day before on June 3. Officers were called to remove him from another residence on June 3 in Salem and due to his condition from allegedly being under the influence of drugs, he was taken to Salem Regional Medical Center. Officers stood by to assist medical staff due to his irate behavior upon entering the emergency room and he allegedly spit on three different police officers during this incident.

A preliminary/pretrial hearing was set June 17 for Mitzi S. Stoddard, 36, Park Avenue, East Palestine, charged with fifth-degree felony obstructing justice and misdemeanor illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia for allegedly transporting a wanted person in her vehicle on June 9 in Salem, acknowledging on June 3 that she knew he was wanted by the Adult Parole Authority. During the incident on June 9, she had baggies for the storage of dangerous drugs in her possession.

A pretrial was set Aug. 12 for Norman L. Rudder, 55, Aten Avenue Extended, Wellsville, charged with misdemeanor sexual imposition for allegedly having sexual contact with a juvenile, 15 years old, on Nov. 1, 2025 in Wellsville.