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Columbiana County Sheriff reports for 6-6

Margaret Kean, Hilltop Drive, Lisbon, reported on Monday someone cut the left rear brake line on her car sometime between 8 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday while it was parked at her home.

Middleton Township Fiscal Officer Bob Chapman gave deputies a wallet found by the road crew working on Pancake-Clarkson Road on Tuesday afternoon. The wallet contained various cards and a birth certificate all in the name of Rusty Ray Altman. Deputies attempted to call him, but there was no answer.

Kevin Short, DeSellum Road, Lisbon, reported at 11:23 p.m. Tuesday his 15-year-old son pushed him across the room. Short spoke to the boy, who claimed he was defending himself because his father was drunk and out of control. The father declined to pursue charges, but said he is in the process of filing unruly charges.

Phil Bartholomae, Bowman Road, Homeworth, reported at 8:36 a.m. Monday his son was at his home earlier and forced his way inside. He refused to leave until his father called deputies, then he ran off. A few hours later, the son returned and deputies were called again to help locate him while he was hiding in a hayfield. Paul E. Bartholomae was charged with criminal trespassing.

Delores Pahanish, Miller Road, Leetonia, reported at 9:31 a.m. Monday her neighbor was cutting the grass on the property she was ordered not to be on by the courts. Another neighbor stopped the first neighbor from cutting the grass and she did not feel it was right because the grass would not get cut now.

Vicki Bock, Y and O Road, Wellsville, reported at 10:03 a.m. Monday someone used her Home Savings debit card to make a $50 purchase from MMA Cleanser.com. She called a number about the charge and the person she spoke to refused to give her any information, claiming it was her husband who made the purchase. Bock told deputies her husband does not make purchases online and when he spoke to the company, they would not cooperate with him either.

John Gorby Jr., Lisbon-Dungannon Road, Lisbon, reported at 12:38 p.m. Monday he and his girlfriend fought over the weekend and she was going to move out. On Monday she came and took some belongings, but also struck his TV, possibly with a baseball bat, and took the Direct TV satellite box. He wanted deputies to assist him in getting the box back, but later called and said he resolved the issue.

Patricia Crowe, state Route 45, Lisbon, reported at 12:07 p.m. Tuesday she was parked near the Laundry Barn in the plaza north of Lisbon when Donald Roof, North Lincoln Avenue, Salem, backed from a parking space and struck her vehicle.

Todd Hayter, state Route 164, Leetonia, reported at 9:09 p.m. Monday he has been receiving threatening and harassing text messages from his stepson. He also claimed the stepson has been threatening his wife. Hayter told the stepson to stop texting him, but he has not.

Martin Winkle, Bye Road, Negley, reported at 8:42 p.m. Monday someone stole his ATV from his yard between 10 p.m. Sunday and 5 a.m. Monday. Tire tracks showed where someone pushed the ATV through the grass, loaded it onto a vehicle and left.

Mark Morgan, Bayard Road, Minerva, reported at 6:44 p.m. Tuesday there was a dispute between neighbors. An intoxicated Morgan reportedly told dispatchers he was going to get a gun and shoot all the neighbors. Deputies spoke to Tracy Thomas and Harold Dunlap, who stated Morgan was over at Dunlap’s house waving a knife and threatening to kill them in their sleep. They also reported Morgan was shooting a gun earlier from his porch. Morgan was charged with aggravated menacing and weapons while intoxicated. Two rifles and two knives were taken from his home.

Anthony Brown, Hazel Run Road, Salineville, reported at 9:21 p.m. Tuesday a man was hanging out the window of a Chevy 2500 pickup with a gun. The man was reportedly driving up and down the road yelling he was going to kill people. Deputies checked the area, but could not find a truck matching the description.

Mark Hawkins, Market Street, Boardman, reported at 6:18 p.m. Tuesday he found three unauthorized charges on his prepaid debit card. The charges were made at JT’s Pit Stop on state Route 164.

Amanda Herron, Washington Avenue, Wellsville, reported at 5:03 p.m. Tuesday she is in the process of moving and someone took boxes of items from the porch and the shed. Neighbors gave her the name of the person, who allegedly took the boxes.

Constintina Covert, Beech Street, Beloit, reported at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday her ex-husband came to the house trying to start a fight with Jeff Mazzel inviting him to go out on the road to fight. Covert said her ex-husband also threatened to take the children they have together.

Tammy Bookman, state Route 45, Lisbon, reported she found Richard McCullough, 59, with no signs of life at 5:47 p.m. Tuesday. He recently had medical issues and had just left the hospital on Monday. KLG confirmed the death and the coroner was contacted.

Ryan Morris, Brookfield Avenue, Lisbon, reported at 7:24 p.m. Tuesday he left on Sunday evening and returned Tuesday to find items missing from the house. The doors and windows were still locked. His girlfriend’s purse was found dumped and her wallet missing. Clothes and a diamond necklace valued at $200 were also taken.

Jackie Wilson, Ridge Road, Minerva, reported at 10:58 a.m. Thursday sometime between Sunday and Tuesday someone took her Kimble garbage container.

Darlene Allison, state Route 39, Wellsville, reported at 5:08 a.m. Thursday she heard an ATV starting and looked out to find her son’s ATV gone. Someone headed toward state Route 39 and then toward Salineville.

Cindy Haueter, Haessley Road, Hanoverton, reported at 11 a.m. on May 29 she found damage to the cemetery arrangement on the grave site at the Catholic Cemetery on Dungannon Road. A flower pot was damaged and torn where it had been anchored and a different flower arraignment was placed nearby.

Ashley Baun, old state Route 344, Leetonia, reported at 1:41 p.m. Monday her sister’s boyfriend was out of control and broke out a window at the home. He was also arguing with his mother. His mother told deputies he had been upset about money and head butted the screen door. His girlfriend told deputies he had calmed down and there was no physical contact between them. He had a cut on his head, but declined medical treatment.

Kevin Price, Meadow Wood, Salem, reported at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday a vehicle has been abandoned on Meadow Wood. It belonged to a tenant, Olga Courtney, and he has tried to contact her, but she changed her phone number. Deputies contacted her and told her to remove it or it will be towed.

Family Dollar employees reported someone shoplifting at the store on state Route 45, Lisbon, at 12:08 p.m. Wednesday. At first the employee said the two women were outside the store giving her problems, then one left before deputies arrived. On the way northbound on Beaver Street, deputies saw a vehicle with the license plate number matching the one given by the clerk and coming southbound. They stopped the vehicle. Brandi Cope was taken back to the store, where both she and Jennifer McCarty denied shoplifting. However, after getting permission to search the vehicle, deputies found a container of Sexiest Fantasies Senual body mist, two packs of Nailene press-on fingernails, one container of liquid makeup and one plush mascara, all with Family Dollar anti-theft stickers and without a bag or receipt. The items totaled $18. Both Cope and McCarty were charged with theft and Cope was additionally cited with driving under suspension.

Kathy Hart, Mindling Lane, Minerva, reported at 10:18 p.m. Wednesday she received a suspicious call from a man calling himself Kevin Michelson and claiming he was an old friend of her husband’s from school. The man called her husband by name, claimed her husband, who was not home at the time, would be happy to hear from him and noted he had some bad news about their friend passing away. She gave the man her husband’s cell phone number. Her husband did not know who the caller was when got home.

A pickup driven by David Haley, Howard Street, Hanover, and a car driven by Dorothy Percy, Thompson Street, Alliance, collided in the parking lot at Duke and Duchess at 4:32 p.m. Wednesday. Both claimed it was the other driver’s fault.

David Plott of One Stop, First Street, Hanoverton, reported at 8:11 p.m. Tuesday two people drove away in a light brown pickup without paying for $122 in diesel fuel.

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