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Salem — Officers responded to the 400 block of Continental Drive at 6:32 p.m. Tuesday for a speak with officer report. The caller advised that their ex-girlfriend was accessing his emails and would not stop contacting him. He also advised that he had also filed a report with the East Palestine Police Department for her getting into his bank account due to her living in their jurisdiction. Officers advised the caller that they would contact her and advised her to stop and also advised him to contact them if they continued. — Officers responded to the 700 block of East Fifth Street ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set Feb. 17 for Charles A. Slocum Jr., 34, Brookfield Avenue, Lisbon, charged with failure to verify residence address, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly failing to verify his address with the sheriff’s office on Jan. 14 as required for the sex offender registration. A pretrial was set Feb. 23 for Steven J. Cappitte, 41, Southeast Boulevard, Salem, charged with domestic violence and obstructing official business for allegedly slamming the door shut several times and fleeing the Salem residence ...

POLICE

Salem — Officers responded to the 2100 block of Monroe Street at 2:58 a.m. Tuesday for a reported suspicious person. The caller advised that two people were digging through trash dumpsters. Officers spoke with them and advised them of trespassing laws. They went on their way. — Officers conducted a traffic stop in the 100 block of East State Street at 8:31 p.m. Monday. During the stop K-9 Chaz was deployed for a free air sniff and alerted to the presence of narcotic odor. Officers then conducted a probable cause search of the vehicle and recovered a pipe for the smoking of ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON—A Salem man served a day in jail and was fined $150 for entering a business with a knife. Carl Cranston, 46, McCracken Road, Salem, was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 29 days suspended and credit for one day served, ordered to have no contact with the involved business and fined $150 for menacing, amended from aggravated menacing for entering a bar with an approximately 5-to-6-inch knife and walking toward a man in Salem on Aug. 16. Denver Jeffrey, 28, Cranseville Road, Greenville, Pa.,was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 180 days suspended, 40 hours of ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A woman on state Route 644, Hanover Township, reported at 5:31 p.m. Saturday that her 17-year-old daughter’s father, of Tunnel Hill Road, Hanover Township, called her and said he was coming onto the property to pick up his daughter. A deputy advised her that the man called and said he will pick up his daughter at the end of the driveway. He had called at 4:58 p.m. Saturday to report his daughter lives with her mother and has to leave the residence on foot and walk to the end of the long driveway in 10-degree weather. He said he was picking her up at the end of ...

POLICE

Columbiana — Rayshawn Scott, of Youngstown, was cited at 10:18 p.m. Jan. 31 in the first block of West Park Avenue for driving under suspension and failure to yield, after a traffic stop. — Nicole Polen, address not listed, was arrested at 8:29 p.m. Jan. 27 on a charge of domestic violence on the 1200 block of Fairfield Avenue. East Palestine — An officer provided mutual aid to New Waterford at 12:18 p.m. Jan. 29, breaking up a dog fight. — An East Main Street resident reported several items stolen from her residence sometime before 3:56 p.m. Jan. 29. — Police were ...