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NEW CASES
Arin Noel Altomare, Parkview Drive, Columbiana, and Teresa Lynn Newsome Altomare, Columbus; dissolution sought.
Pamela Hough, Salem Alliance Road, Salem, vs. Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Columbus, and West Branch Nursing Home LTD, doing business as Pleasant View North Retirement Center, Warren; one case for appeal of claim denial and one case for a refile of 2025 case.
Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Orange, Calif. vs. Cynthia R. Smith, also known as Cynthia R. Temple,, North Market Street, Lisbon, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for North Market Street, Lisbon property.
DOCKET ENTRIES
Lyden Oil Company vs. Nulfco, Inc.; $18,931 default judgment granted to plaintiff, plus $1,476 attorney fees and costs.
Grand Jury
LISBON -- Sarah C. Mullins, 32, Carbon Hill Road, East Palestine, was served Thursday with a secret indictment issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury for multiple drug counts, including third-degree felony possession of a fentanyl-related compound, fourth-degree felonies of possession of heroin and possession of cocaine, fifth-degree felonies of two counts aggravated possession of drugs and misdemeanor possession of drugs for allegedly possessing 5 to 10 grams of fentanyl and cocaine, 1 to 5 grams of heroin, methamphetamine and MDMA.
Municipal
LISBON -- An East Liverpool man is facing potential felony charges in for allegedly threatening to kill another man.
A preliminary hearing and pretrial were set Sept. 8 for Thomas Powel, 30, Dewey Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with second-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor charges of aggravated menacing and criminal damaging for allegedly entering a St. Clair Avenue residence without permission, knocking down window blinds, and threatening to kill a man in East Liverpool on Wednesday.
Brandon Miller, 35, Bell Road, Lisbon, was sentenced to 48 days in jail with credit for three days served and fined $500 for two counts of assault, both of which were amended from domestic violence. One count stems from an incident when Miller grabbed a woman by the neck and punched her in the face inside of a vehicle in the middle of the roadway in Elkrun Township causing a knot on her forehead, a swollen upper lip, red marks and welting on both side of her neck, a cut on her right arm, and a scratch on her left breast on July 3. The second count stems from an incident when he dragged a woman around an Elkrun Township residence on July 28.
A pretrial was set Sept. 9 for David Barckhoff, 44, Springboro, Pennsylvania, charged with domestic violence for allegedly grabbing a woman by the wrists during an argument causing deep bruises to both arms at a medical facility in St. Clair Township on Thursday.
A pretrial was set Sept. 2 for James Shaffer, 68, South State Street, New Waterford, charged with menacing for allegedly following two juveniles from the park to a business and threatening to strike them in New Waterford on Wednesday.
A pretrial was set Oct. 28 for Isaac Hickman, 21, Southeast Boulevard, Salem, charged with obstructing official business and public indecency for allegedly hiding from officers in a garage and urinating on the back patio of a Cedar Ridge Drive residence in Salem on Friday.
A pretrial was set Sept. 16 for Justin Buckel, 34, Dakota Street, East Liverpool, charged with obstructing official business, aggravated menacing and theft. The charge of menacing stems from an incident on Aug. 9 when Buckel allegedly threatened to kill a woman in Wellsville. The theft charge stems from an incident on Aug. 18 when he allegedly took an item valued at $20.37 from an East Liverpool business without paying. The charge of obstruction stems from an incident on Wednesday when he allegedly fled from officers into a building and hid under a pile of tires when they attempted to execute a warrant for his arrest in East Liverpool.
A pretrial was set Sept. 8 for Brandon Jones, 25, West Eighth Street, East Liverpool, charged with persistent disorderly conduct and pedestrian on road for allegedly walking in the center of the roadway on Jefferson Street in East Liverpool causing traffic backups, and re-entering the roadway and impeding traffic again "approximately 30 seconds after" officers instructed him to stay on the sidewalk and out of the roadway on Sept. 9, 2024. Brown had allegedly previously been advised that he could not walk in the roadway multiple times over the preceding months.
A pretrial was set Sept. 8 for Terry Bicksler, 44, Front Street, New Waterford, charged with criminal trespass for allegedly entering a New Waterford property from which he had previously been evicted and criminally trespassed by the property owner on Oct. 1, 2022.
A pretrial was set Sept. 14 for Joseph Mason, 42, Vine Street, East Liverpool, charged with theft for allegedly cornering a man and taking his cell phone in East Liverpool on Aug. 11.
A pretrial was set Oct. 28 for Jennifer Hunt, 32, East Sixth Street, Salem, charged with possessing drug paraphernalia and a seatbelt violation for allegedly possessing a burnt glass pipe with residue and two torch lighters during a traffic stop in East Liverpool on Aug. 19.
A pretrial was set Sept. 8 for Thomas Welsh Jr., 40, East Fourth Street, Salem, charged with possessing drug paraphernalia for allegedly having a glass pipe commonly used for the smoking of narcotics during a traffic stop in Lisbon on Thursday.
Daniel Morris, 45, McCoy Avenue, East Liverpool, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 87 days suspended and credit for three days in a driver intervention program and fined $550 for physical control amended from OVI, and littering from a vehicle. A charge of failure to display a valid sticker was dismissed.
Mervin Jones, 80, McSwiggen Road, Salineville, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 177 days suspended and credit for three days served and fined $975 for OVI and reasonable control.
Christopher Hanner, 45, McKees Rock, Pennsylvania, was fined $565 for OVI.