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Municipal Court

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Courtney L. Troyer, 34, Gavers Road, Hanoverton, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor resisting arrest for allegedly illegally entering a residence on McCracken Road in Salem Township on Nov. 10 and then resisting when a deputy was taking her into custody. She was fined $75 for animals running at large for letting her dog run loose in September 2021 in Salem. A preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Nov. 25 for Ronnie L. Jackson, 68, Rose Drive, Lisbon, charged with ...

Man accused of attempted murder in baseball bat attack will be evaluated

LISBON — A man accused of attempted murder in a baseball bat attack against a woman in June was ordered to be evaluated for competency and sanity. Frederick L. Harroff, 66, last known address Columbiana Lisbon Road, Columbiana, appeared Thursday for a status hearing accompanied by his defense attorney Robert Bricker. He remains jailed under a $500,000 cash or surety bond. During the hearing, county Assistant Prosecutor Alec Beech said Bricker orally requested the evaluations. Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam granted the request and issued an order for the ...

REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Zachary C. and Jessica A. Bloss to Tyler R. and Brinley A. Heestand, home on Terraho Drive; $525,052 Center Township Pritchard Hill Reig LLC to PE Network LLC (trustee), home on Pritchard Avenue; $30,000 Rusty Ivan Johns et al to Benjamin E. and Darcy A. Davenport, 4.69 acre farm on Trinity Church Road; $35,000 Patrick C. Mason to Deborah Kay Arter, home on Trinity Church Road; $131,000 Columbiana Timothy W. Bell (trustee) to Daren and Stella Gamble, home on North Main Street; $222,000 Margery R. McKinnon to John W. and Stephanie R. Taylor, home on Erie ...

THE COURTS

Common Pleas New Cases Matthew W. Carman, Sherwood Avenue, East Liverpool, and Neva R. Carman, Youngstown; dissolution granted. 21st Mortgage Corporation, Knoxville, Tenn., vs. Jerry L. Hostetter, Waterford Road, New Waterford, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Waterford Road, New Waterford property. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Anaheim, Calif., vs. Richard J. Holt, Woodbine Avenue, East Liverpool, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Columbiana County property. Cristina Manos, Eastlake Road, Lisbon, vs. Clewell’s Landing Camp, LLC and Lucian Clewell, ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — Deputies responded at 4:19 p.m. Thursday to Cherry Valley Road, Salem Township, regarding a fire and were met by a person who was burning stuff. The Leetonia Fire Department was called and put the fire out. — A barking dog was reported at 6:31 p.m. Tuesday at Endley Road, Center Township. A deputy spoke with the owner and he advised he would put the dog away. — A man on Case Road, Knox Township, reported at 2:38 p.m. Wednesday that he left his residence from 12:30 to 2:15 p.m. and when he returned, someone had entered the unlocked man door on the garage ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Daniel J. Monte, 50, Independence Square, Wellsville, was bound over to the county grand jury for felonious assault, a second-degree felony, for allegedly acting as if he was going to strike another man and then stomping on his face during a fight in Wellsville on Oct. 14. Cases against Matthew D. Porter, 36, Vesper, Wisc., were bound over to the county grand jury for third-degree felony compelling prostitution and fifth-degree felony possession of criminal tools and misdemeanor engaging in prostitution for ...