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Grand Jury
LISBON -- Secret indictments issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury were served Wednesday to the following:
-- Jessica A. Hill, 43, West Wilson Street, Salem, third-degree felony illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified government facility, fifth-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs and two counts of misdemeanor possession of drugs for allegedly possessing methamphetamine, alprazolam and buprenorphine and trying to take drugs onto the grounds of a detention facility on April 14, 2025.
-- Bryan K. Dilling, 54, North Ellsworth Avenue, Salem, failure to provide notice of change of address, a third-degree felony, for allegedly failing to notify the Columbiana County Sheriff's Office of his change of address for the sex offender registration on Aug. 13, 2026.
Common Pleas
NEW CASES
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Barbara E. Newlin, Jackman Street, East Liverpool, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Jackman Street, East Liverpool property.
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Melissa Hornbeck, Lisbon Street, East Liverpool, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Lisbon Street, East Liverpool property.
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. James C. Argabrite, Oak Grove Road, Wellsville, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Oak Grove Road, Wellsville property.
Kyla Miller, Kennedy Drive, Salem, and Daniel Miller, Kennedy Drive, Salem; dissolution sought.
Shannon Hooper, Clover Avenue, Wellsville, and Kevin Hooper, Hibbetts-Mill Road, Wellsville; dissolution sought.
Ann L. Weigle, McClure Road, East Palestine, vs. Barry S. Weigle, McClure Road, East Palestine; divorce sought.
Heather L. Buchheit, Wedgewood Street, East Liverpool, and Michael J. Buchheit, Taggart Drive, Wellsville; dissolution sought.
Shayne C.A. Beagle, Eighth Street, Wellsville, vs. Jared M. Smith, Steubenville; divorce sought.
Ford Motor Credit Company LLC, Colorado Springs, Colo. vs. Mark A. Stanley, North Ellsworth Avenue, Salem; collection sought of alleged $12,169 debt.
Kinsale Insurance Company, Richmond, Va., vs. MJ Energy Inc., Broadview Circle, East Liverpool; confirmation of arbitration award sought.
Rocket Mortgage, LLC, Coppell, Texas, vs. Barry Weyand, state Route 344, Leetonia, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Columbiana County property.
DOCKET ENTRIES
American Express National Bank vs. Sean C. Ely; $9,111 judgment granted to plaintiff.
Village of Wellsville vs. Jean L. Desarro, et al.; $10,400 judgment granted to plaintiff.
Arley James Yerkey vs. Karlee Yerkey; divorce case dismissed.
Mary-Anne Belich vs. Travis Belich; divorce granted.
County Treasurer vs. Adam Newbold, et al.; delinquent property taxes paid, case dismissed.
Municipal
LISBON -- In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Wayne K. Ayers Jr., 59, Main Street, Leetonia, was bound over to the county grand jury for third-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly pushing a woman and throwing a pan at her while she was trying to get her keys, wallet and clothes when she was trying to leave the Leetonia residence on Sept. 1.
A jury trial was set Nov. 5 for Duallen Joseph Dalton Stanford, 33, state Route 170, Negley, charged with endangering children, drug paraphernalia and two counts of assault related to an Oct. 3, 2024 incident when he allegedly started a physical altercation resulting in injuries to a man and a juvenile, punching both of them. He also allegedly possessed used needles and small white rocks of suspected narcotics in a wooden box under a bed during the incident.
Christopher Allen Dorsey, 45, Erie Street, East Liverpool, was fined $100 and given credit for one day served in jail for assault for snatching the glasses off of the victim and striking him in the eye with his fist on Aug. 3 in East Liverpool.
Alejandra Etziboe Cabrera, 26, South Lincoln Avenue, Salem, was fined $150 for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for causing cuts on another woman's hands, neck and face on Aug. 6 in Salem.
Andrea Elizabeth Cabrera, 25, South Lincoln Avenue, Salem, was fined $150 for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for causing cuts to another woman's mouth and hands on Aug. 6 in Salem.
Steven R. Dexter, 43, Old Monroeville Salineville, Salineville, was fined $50 and received credit for 18 days served in jail for disorderly conduct amended from assault for kicking a security guard in the knee and grabbing his arm while he was an alleged combative patient at East Liverpool City Hospital on August. 23.
Joel Felipe Lopez, 21, Sharon, Pa., was fined $2000 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 178 days suspended and credit for two days served, for engaging in prostitution, possessing criminal tools and obstructing official business. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service and 14 days electronically monitored house arrest and already completed the education course. Lopez was accused of responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a woman in exchange for $100 to be paid via the Cash Ap, then arrived in Unity Township for the meeting on July 8 and was refusing to exit the vehicle or roll down his window and was observed allegedly deleting data from his phone before the window was breached. A felony charge of tampering with evidence was dismissed at the request of the prosecutor.
Jeffrey Allen Jackson, 31, New Cumberland, W.Va., was fined $250 and given credit for 13 days served in jail for theft for selling someone else's chainsaw to a pawn shop in Chester, W.Va. on July 12, 2025 after it was reported stolen out of back of the owner's pickup truck on the same date in East Liverpool. He was also ordered to serve 30 days in jail, with credit for 13 days served, leaving a balance of 17 days to serve in jail for violating his probation in cases from 2024 for attempted possession of drugs and criminal damaging.
Robert Jeremy McKay, 56, Market Street, East Liverpool, was fined $500 and given credit for 11 days served in jail for possessing criminal tools and criminal trespass for using a knife to trespass in a building in East Liverpool on Aug. 19.
David Allen Barckhoff, 44, Grimms Bridge Road, East Liverpool, was fined $500 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 74 days suspended and credit for 13 days served in jail and another three days served in a driver intervention program for physical control and theft, with 20 hours community service ordered. Charges of driving under suspension and domestic violence were dismissed. He was ordered to stay away from Four Seasons Mini Mart. He was accused of stealing a bottle of liquor stuffed in the back of his pants from the Four Seasons Mini Mart in St. Clair Township valued at $5.99. The domestic violence charge stemmed from an incident on Aug. 27 in St. Clair Township involving a woman whose wrists were allegedly grabbed, leaving bruises on both arms. The prosecutor requested dismissed of the charge.
Rachel B. Troup, 49, Ravine Street, East Liverpool, was ordered to serve 20 days in jail, with credit for 11 days served, leaving a balance of nine days to serve in jail for violating the terms of her probation for a 2023 case of drug paraphernalia.
Thomas R. Welsh Jr., 41, East Fourth Street, Salem, was fined $150 and given credit for one day served in jail for drug paraphernalia amended from possess instruments to ingest for possessing a glass pipe on Aug. 27 in Lisbon.