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Grand Jury

LISBON — Two defendants accused of trafficking drugs were served Monday with secret indictments issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury. Dimitri A. White, also known as Meech, 32, South Street, East Palestine, was charged with trafficking in drugs, a fourth-degree felony, and possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, with a specification for forfeiture of money from a drug case for allegedly selling marijuana in the vicinity of a school on Nov. 30, 2017, and possessing $250 and cocaine less than 5 grams on Feb. 1, 2017. William G. Wildman, 51, East Fifth Street, Salem, was ...

Sheriff

— A deputy dispatched at 6:19 p.m. Oct. 30 checked the area of state Route 45 near Buckeye Road regarding a suspicious vehicle, but did not find the vehicle. — A deputy responded at 7:10 p.m. Oct. 26 to Midwest Sandbags, Middleton Township, regarding menacing. The deputy spoke to the caller and advised them how to proceed.

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a man who said he wanted to cost Norfolk Southern money by halting rail traffic was arraigned on several charges for allegedly being heavily intoxicated and sitting on the railroad tracks in September. A pretrial was set Nov. 24 for Michael Shane Fowler, 54, West Clark Street, East Palestine, charged with criminal trespass, attempted, open container and disorderly conduct for his alleged actions on Sept. 17 in East Palestine. A police affidavit said a police officer was dispatched to the railroad tracks after it was reported ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A man on U.S. Route 30, West Township, reported at 7:43 p.m. Saturday that a 13-year-old boy keeps attempting to break into his vehicles and garage and lives with a relative on Bayard Road, West Township. A deputy spoke with the relative by phone and advised him of the complaint. — Salem Police requested at 4:21 p.m. Saturday that deputies check a residence on Winona Road, Butler Township for a 16-year-old girl entered as missing from Salem. Deputies made contact with all three residents on the property and all three said they do not know the girl and she was ...

REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Mary Ann Domer to James D. Buehman II, home on U.S. Route 62; $315,000 Center Township Richard S. Creese to Kahle L. Randolph, mobile home on state Route 164; $238,000 East Liverpool James L. and Shirley L. Fersch Sr. to Sherry Cline, home on Shady Lane; $35,247 Dennis James Salsberry to Jesse James Shinn et al, home on Michigan Avenue; $109,000 Kimber Lee Charles Francis et al to Brandin Diewald, home on Lisbon Street; $180,000 Penny A. Heaton et al to Nicholas Cain Collins, home and other residential structures on Oakwood Avenue; $146,000 East ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Wilbert E. Faulk, 66, Minerva Street, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury for two counts of violation of a protection order for allegedly showing up at the apartment of two protected persons in East Liverpool on Sept. 8, in violation of a protection order. He was fined $100 and sentenced to three days in jail, with credit for three days served, leaving zero days to serve for criminal trespass for a July 22 incident when he allegedly trespassed on a Columbiana Metropolitan Housing Authority ...