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POLICE

Sheriff’s Office —A deputy checked the area of Mick Road, Yellow Creek Township, at 6:40 p.m. Sunday for a parking violation, but didn’t find any vehicles. — Salem police at 10:50 p.m. Friday asked a deputy to contact the parents of a 14-year-old boy from Knox Township due to his ride leaving him behind at the high school football game. The deputy made contact with the parents and they were en route to pick the boy up at the Salem police station. — Salineville Police requested assistance at 5:14 p.m. Friday with a domestic violence call in the 100 block of East Main ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Nov. 3 for Ayden Elijah Keith Moore, 19, Franklin Street, Salem, charged with second-degree felony burglary and misdemeanors of telecommunications harassment and resisting arrest for allegedly entering a residence in Salem uninvited and slapping a woman multiple times across the face, wrapping his hands around her neck and shoving her to the ground on Oct. 25. On Oct. 26, he would not stop contacting the victim and kept texting her after she asked him to stop. When Salem Police officers ...

Grand Jury

LISBON — A Bloomingdale man accused of stealing thousands of dollars from people over a more than one-year period was served Thursday with secret indictments issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury for three separate cases. Richard H. Carter, 54, was charged with three counts of grand theft, all fourth-degree felonies. The indictments allege that he deprived a woman of $13,345 from May 20, 2022 through July 17, 2023, deprived a man and woman of $18,774 from June 20, 2022 through June 23, 2023 and deprived a man and Bible Baptist Church of $20,365 from Oct. 28, 2022 through July 20, ...

COURT NEWS

LISBON — A domestic violence charge against a Wellsville man was dismissed recently at the request of the state. Tyrone M. Davis, also known as Reese Davis, 52, Eighth Street, Wellsville, had been recently indicted for third-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly slapping a woman across the face on Aug. 12 in Wellsville, with at least two or more past convictions for domestic violence on his record. The case was dismissed without prejudice in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, with the state indicating that it no longer wants to pursue the charges. Also in Common Pleas ...

Felony case of man accused in Aug. 23 knives attack bound over to Grand Jury

LISBON — A man accused of running up and attacking another man with two knives, causing multiple knife wounds to the victim on Aug. 23 in East Liverpool, had his felony case bound over to the Columbiana County Grand Jury Thursday. Grant Michael Goodballet, 27, last known address Bank Street, East Liverpool and also with a Youngstown address, appeared in Columbiana County Court Municipal Court for a preliminary hearing and pretrial. Retired Alliance Municipal Court Judge Robert G. Lavery was assigned as visiting judge for the case. He’s charged with felonious assault, a ...

REAL ESTATE

Center Township Anthony F. Gallo to Great Trail Investments LLC, home on state Route 517; $78,238 Columbiana Columbiana Floral Company to Vernon M. and Phyllis G. Elwonger, home on Springfield Road; $112,300 East Liverpool Jethro Properties LLC to Craig and Gregg Stowers, home on Edwards Street; $30,500 Kimberly Willey et al to Kevan Merriman, home on Northside Avenue; $30,100 Larry Davis to TIG 1 Properties LLC, home on Surry Road; $45,000 Larry M. Davis to Hope Jackson Ingram, home on Garner Avenue; $65,000 East Palestine Saadia Gorichky to Saadia Gorichky and Taylor ...