Columbiana County Sheriff for 6-21

Chad Schlernitzauer, Canton, reported at 1:35 p.m. Wednesday that he was trying to repossess a vehicle at a home on state Route 45, Lisbon, and the family blocked the driveway with a large rock and threatened him, mentioning a weapon. Someone struck his tow truck and a man was able to remove the vehicle from the tow truck before Schlernitzauer drove away.

Harry Anderson, Pine Hollow Road, Rogers, reported at 8:14 a.m. Wednesday that someone opened a gate on his property at the corner of Lusk Lock and Fairmont roads, releasing 100 cattle. He said there has been an ongoing problem with people releasing cattle from his property.

Denny Sauerwein, Columbiana-Waterford Road, Columbiana, reported at 11:11 p.m. Thursday that someone had broken a plexiglass window on his garage and stole caulking tubes, wood railing and music boxes.

Harold Murray, Roseland Apartments, Lisbon, reported at 9:05 p.m. Thursday that someone had damaged his bedroom window and he had found a hole in the window with a metal rod in the hole.

A Miller Road, Leetonia, woman reported at 2:40 p.m. Thursday that her ex-husband, against whom she has a protection order, had been at her home without her permission and she had the photographs to prove it, which she provided to the sheriff's office. A deputy found the man walked away with two children. The information will be sent to the prosecutor's office for opinion.

A St. Jacob-Logtown Road woman reported at 10:37 p.m. Thursday that she had been in an argument with her live-in boyfriend because he did not want her to leave with her two sons. A deputy found the woman appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or a related substance but she denied drinking prior to the argument. The woman was transported to the Christina Center for the night.

Steven Corran, James Drive, Wellsville, reported at 12:42 a.m. Friday that a man he knows threatened to burn down his home and harm him.

Patsy Chuck, High Street, West Point, reported at 8:50 p.m. Thursday that she had been receiving hang-up telephone calls for about a year. A deputy told her to contact her phone company.

Amy Sherwood, Bethesda Road, Hanoverton, reported at 4:05 p.m. Thursday that her 16-year-old son took her vehicle after she had told him not to take it. He had returned the vehicle and she did not want to take further action.

Paul Talbert, Osbourne Road, reported at 5:46 a.m. Monday that his grandson had said multiple, unidentified men with guns had taken his cell phone outside the home and then instructed him to go inside the home and come out with money. The grandson reportedly took $500 of his own money and brought it to the men. According to the report, Talbert said he followed the men's car to an old brickyard in Jefferson County, after which their car went down a road and he did not want to follow them any farther. He was referred to Jefferson County 911, after which Saline Township police responded to the area but said they could not take their vehicle down that road, the sheriff's report said.

Russell Iden, 3015 Homeworth Road, Homeworth, reported at 9:48 a.m. Saturday his mailbox was damaged sometime overnight. About three weeks earlier, the mailbox had been stolen. A friend had found the mailbox laying in the ditch on Georgetown Road and returned it that time.

Jean Salem, 5583 Fairfield School Road, Columbiana, reported at 11:18 a.m. Saturday, she has been receiving telephone calls over the past week from a Florida number, but no one is on the other end of the line. On Friday there were 15 calls and already two or three on Saturday. She called later Saturday to report she received another call, but someone asked for her son and she believed it was from overseas.

A mother at 20690 16 School Road, Irondale, reported her 17-year-old son left the house on Thursday and had not been home when she filed the report at 12:01 p.m. Saturday. She had told her son not to leave the house, but he did with a boy she knows. He called her on Saturday to tell her he was not coming home. Deputies spoke with the mother of the other boy, who knew the two boys were together. She was told to take or have her son take the other boy home. The father had reported the boy gone at 10:13 p.m. Thursday and was told to contact the juvenile court about filing unruly charges.

Kevin Coughen, 18659 Steubenville Pike, Wellsville, reported a suspicious vehicle and people at midnight Friday. Deputies found two men there, who claimed they had permission to be on the property where they were at.

George Valingo Sr., 47411 Timber Run St., New Waterford, reported at 5:58 p.m. Friday someone used his wife's debit card to take $100 using an inside ATM machine.

John Fabry, 1319 Columbiana-Lisbon Road, Columbiana, reported a neighbor has been riding a motorcycle up and down the road at a high rate of speed. The person is also known to trespass on Fabry's property, and he wants it stopped.

Ellen Mills, 1787 Whinnery Road, Salem, reported she was at the Lisbon McDonald's and put her purse on the back of the chair. She left without it and returned to McDonald's about an hour later, where no one had turned it in. The purse contained a driver's license, checkbook, credit card, Medicare card, $170 and a digital camera valued at about $150.

A 16-year-old Haessley Road, Hanoverton, girl reported her mother's boyfriend had hit her and threw her on the ground. She was checked by KLG, but refused medical treatment. The mother also reported her boyfriend had assaulted her daughter. The man had left before deputies arrived and deputies already have three warrants for his arrest. The girl and her mother declined to pursue charges.