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2022-09-17 17:02:28 By : Ms. Shelly SHI

Richard Newman, Buck Road, Alliance, vs. Maria Fernandez, unknown address; divorce sought.

Thomas Brown, West 14th Street, Salem, vs. Carol Brown, Lake Milton; divorce sought.

Joseph Anderson, Woodale Road, Lisbon, vs. Vikki Cowan Anderson, Vine Street, East Liverpool; divorce sought.

Terry Lewis, East Lake Road, Lisbon, and Shannon Lewis, Taggart Street, East Palestine; dissolution sought.

Heritage Cooperative Inc, Delaware, vs. Jeffrey Stryffeler and Marie Stryffeler, both Tower Road, Salem; collection sought of $28,188 debt.

Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC, Troy, Mich., vs. unknown heirs of Larry Welton, deceased, et al.; foreclosure sought for Sharp Street, Salem property.

Citibank vs. Donald McGrath, et al.; case dismissed without prejudice.

Ford Motor Credit Company vs. Penny Enterprises LLC ad Robert Pawlak; judgment granted to plaintiff for $29,677 and $25,826.

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Nicholas Jordan, 22, Niles, was bound over to the county grand jury on a third-degree felony charge of compelling prostitution, fifth-degree felony charges of attempted, illegal use of minor in nudity-oriented material or performance and possessing criminal tools and a misdemeanor of engaging in prostitution.

Jordan allegedly responded to an undercover ad posted on a known escort website by an agent with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force posing as a 15-year-old girl and an adult female, arranging for sexual activity with both in exchange for money and arriving in East Palestine on Sept. 3 for the meeting. During a search of his phone, investigators learned he was allegedly conversing with two minor girls, providing them with vape products, and had two images of the one minor in a state of nudity.

A pretrial was set Sept. 22 for Tiffany Sattler, 31, Commerce Street, Wellsville, charged with abuse of a corpse for allegedly helping to move a deceased drug overdose victim who was dragged to a van on Chester Avenue and transported to the area known as the switch at state Route 7 and Kountz Avenue in Wellsville on March 22, 2021. She also allegedly told someone she didn’t call emergency personnel because she had a warrant for her arrest.

Cory Vernon, 43, Youngstown, was fined $400 and sentenced to two days in jail for engaging in prostitution, possessing criminal tools and possession of drugs for responding to an undercover ad posted on a known website by a Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force agent posing as an adult female, arranging to have sexual conduct with the female in exchange for $80 and arriving in East Palestine for the meeting on July 13.

Darrick Page, 44, Youngstown, was fined $850, ordered to complete 20 hours of community service and an education course for engaging in prostitution, possessing criminal tools and possession of marijuana for responding to an undercover ad posted on a known escort website and arranging for sexual activity with a female in exchange for money and arriving in East Palestine on Dec. 22, 2021 for the meeting.

Samuel Vitale, 57, Ashtabula, was fined $750, ordered to complete 20 hours community service and to complete an education course for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. Vitale arrived in Salem on June 12 after arranging to meet an undercover agent of the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force for sexual conduct in exchange for $120.

Alexander Morlan, 25, New Middletown, was fined $1,030, ordered to serve 30 hours community service and complete an education course for engaging in prostitution, possessing criminal tools, no seat belt, traffic control devices and two counts driving under suspension. Morlan solicited sex acts with a female in exchange for $70 after answering an undercover ad posted by a Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force on a known escort website, then drove to East Palestine for the meeting with the money and his cell phone. He had a past conviction from 2018 for importuning and attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor from Mahoning County and is a register sex offender.

Ryan Romigh, 28, Tower Road, Salem, was fined $400 for failure to comply, illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia and obstruction of official business. His license was suspended for one year and he was ordered to complete 40 hours community service. The charges stemmed from a traffic stop on a vehicle of interest in an active investigation at Georgetown Road and Pershing Street on Sept. 2 when Romigh, who was a passenger, took off running after police told him to exit the vehicle. He was apprehended in a wooded area and was found in possession of a meth bubble. He was also fined $100 for marijuana paraphernalia for a 2021 case, $250 for driving under suspension for a 2022 case and $190 for driving under suspension and speeding for a 2022 case.

Sentencing was set Sept. 27 for Rachel Councell, 45, Yeager Drive, Wellsville, after she pleaded no contest to domestic violence. She was ordered to have no contact with Charles Councell, whom she was accused of pushing and hitting while she was intoxicated on Aug. 14 at their home.

A pretrial was set Sept. 19 for Anthony Hupp, 37, Failor Street, East Palestine, charged with violation of a protection order for allegedly being in a vehicle in East Palestine on Sept. 6 with a woman who screamed obscenities and derogatory statements toward a man and his family who have a protection order against him.

Alicia Hicks, was fined $150 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 120 days suspended, credit for 12 days served and an order to serve 48 days electronically monitored house arrest for aggravated menacing. She was ordered to complete 40 hours community service. Hicks knowingly discharged a firearm in the direction of the sky and yelled “stay back” to multiple victims during an incident on Aug. 31 at a property on state Route 172, Lisbon.

Lindsay Willard, 34, East Fourth Street, Salem, was fined $200 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 80 days suspended and credit for 10 days served, for domestic violence for striking a man in the face during a domestic incident in Salem on Aug. 23.

David Scyoc, 52, West Wilson Street, Salem, was fined $300 for two counts of disorderly conduct, amended from aggravated trespassing and criminal damaging. A charge of aggravated menacing was dismissed and he was ordered to pay $2,248 to Adam Mead, the victim in the case. Scyoc entered Mead’s Salem home on May 5 and did some damage by breaking kitchen cabinets and a microwave and a ceiling fan in the bedroom, all while looking for Mead.

A pretrial was set Sept. 27 for Stefan Jarrett, 44, Springdale Avenue, Salem, charged with interference with custody, resisting arrest and obstructing official business for an alleged incident June 27 on Springdale Drive, Salem

A pretrial was set Nov. 15 for Melissa Blake, 40, Quay Road, Negley, charged with illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia for allegedly possessing suspected crystal meth during a traffic stop on Sept. 12 in Rogers.

A pretrial was set Oct. 27 for Danielle Payne, 39, Hillcrest Road, Wellsville, charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, second offense, OVI refusal within 20 years, and failure to control.

Chloe Gerber, 20, Massillon, was fined $870 for OVI, left of center, no seat belt and distracted driving and her license was suspended to one year.

Rammel Perry-Tisdale, 28, Beaver Falls, Pa., was fined $925 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 87 days suspended and credit for three days served in driver intervention, for physical control, amended from OVI, and stop sign. Perry-Tisdale’s license was suspended for one year and 20 hours community service was ordered served.

Kristy Hoprich, 42, West Washington Street, Lisbon, was fined $200 for improper/expired registration and driving under suspension

Mindy Lodge, 47, Rose Drive, Lisbon, was fined $150 for driving under suspension.

A charge of no driver’s license was dismissed against Darrell Goodman, 26, Monroeville Heights, Salineville.

A pretrial was set Oct. 6 for Katelyn Vannoy, 30, Roller Coaster Road, Lisbon, charged with speeding.

Justin Fenstermaker, 29, Warren, was fined $150 for an equipment violation, amended from speeding.

A pretrial was set Nov. 8 for Dylan Davin, 25, West Pidgeon Road, Salem, charged with assured clear distance ahead.

A pretrial was set Oct. 31 for Jacinto Garcia, 22, Aetna Street, Salem, charged with driving under suspension and speeding.

EAST LIVERPOOL — In East Liverpool Municipal Court, a man charged with unlawful restraint and two counts of assault for allegedly harming a woman during two separate incidents this year will have his next hearing in Columbiana County Municipal Court.

David Young, 45, Bloomfield Avenue, allegedly struck the woman in the face and broke off her tooth in the area of Walmart on Dresden Avenue on March 20, 2022. The other incident occurred June 7 when police were called to the Bloomfield Avenue residence for the same woman alleging he put his hands around her neck and strangled her to sleep, then dragged her up the stairs, dropped her by the door and she ran.

Other cases transferred to county municipal court for hearings to be set next month included: Ethan Hill, 19, Carmel Achor Road, Rogers, menacing; Katelyn Heddleston, 30, Jennings Avenue, operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, above .08, OVI first offense and failure to control; Steven Summers, 47, Vale Road, drug paraphernalia offenses; William Fletcher, 46, Hess Road, two counts domestic violence; Douglas Robinson, 46, Penn Avenue, OVI, no license, possession of marijuana and failure to control; Kyle Kidder, 20, Chester, W.Va., domestic violence; Vance Burns, 50, Osbourne Road, Wellsville, disorderly conduct; Douglas Barnes, 41, Ravine Street, drug paraphernalia and turn signal; Amanda Myers, 32, no license and registration violation; Steven Hager, 52, Ohio Avenue, three counts failure to file city income tax return; and Shawn Myers, 46, Cochocton, littering, noxious/offensive odors, cruelty to companion animals and endangering children for offenses from Dec. 15, 2021.

A case was continued for Timothy Potts Jr., 34, Louise Avenue, charged with using weapons while intoxicated, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for allegedly causing a loud music disturbance, making threats to neighbors and being under the influence and resisting arrest on June 25 at a Louis Street property. At the time, he allegedly failed to disclose to officers that he was carrying a loaded .45 caliber pistol and continued walking away and resisting.

A case was continued for Kathleen Barnes, 34, Dewey Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with drug paraphernalia, possessing marijuana and marked lanes for an April 15 traffic stop in Glenmoor when an officer saw a glass container with marijuana in plain view, searched the vehicle and found alleged drug paraphernalia and suspected narcotics.

Shanda Pipes, 34, Florence Street, was fined $250 and ordered to complete 20 hours community service for petty theft for failing to pay for two items valued at $44 at Walmart on June 3 and being found with the items at her residence.

Ashley Reed, 39, Georgetown, Pa., was fined $250 and ordered to complete 80 hours community service for petty theft for switching tickets on 36 items during checkout, totaling $289, and trying to leave without paying at the Walmart on Dresden Avenue on July 1.

Ryan Ammon, 39, state Route 267, was fined $250, sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 27 days suspended and credit for three days served for disorderly conduct, amended from domestic violence. He was ordered to complete 60 hours community service. Ammon punched a juvenile in the face on May 28.

Grant Blazer, 26, Hillcrest Road, Wellsville, was fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail with 27 days suspended and credit for three days at a driver intervention program. The fine will also be suspended as credit for the driver intervention program. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. He was also fined $50 for rear license plate light and another OVI charge was dismissed.

David Zubay, 62, Shadyside Avenue, was ordered to pay costs for failure to file city income tax return. Four other counts of failure to file city income tax return were dismissed.

Trey Shields, 23, Lincoln Street, was granted credit for 50 days in drug treatment toward the remainder of his jail sentence, with three days left to either do drug treatment or jail, for theft and possession of criminal tools.

Adam Prah, 39, Echo Dell Road, was fined $30 for failure to file application.

David Lowe, 49, Fairmont Road, Elkton, was fined $170 for driving under suspension and fictitious plates.

Joseph Detore, 27, Louise Street, was fined $200 for failure to control and no license.

Fred Thorne, 60, state Route 45, Lisbon, was found not guilty of driving under suspension, with the case dismissed, but was ordered to pay court costs.

Kayla Roberts, 22, Annesley Road, failed to appear for a left of center charge.

Gina Iser, 41, Bridgeport, failed to appear for a speeding charge.

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