Common Pleas

New Cases

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Dannie McCuean, South Walnut Street, East Palestine, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for South Walnut Street, East Palestine property.

Salem Community Hospital, doing business as Salem Regional Medical Center, East State Street, Salem, vs. Edward Cassinger, Lisbon Road, Salem; collection sought of alleged $21,090 debt.

Onemain Financial Group, LLC vs. Bruce Minamyer, Negley; collection sought of alleged $17,535 debt.

Farmers National Bank of Canfield, Canfield, vs. Kristy Hoprich, West Washington Street, Lisbon, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for West Washington Street, Lisbon property.

Docket Entries

Beneficial Ohio Inc. vs. Stephen Toth; judgment revived against defendant for $12,966 plus $49,743 interest and $865 court costs.

Candy Wiley vs. Fresh Mark, Inc., LLC, et al.; case settled and dismissed with prejudice.

Ruth Horner vs. Clifton Beohm; divorce granted.

Linda Lea Krohn vs. Matthew Krohn; divorce granted.

Marriage Licenses

Jacob Kumrow, 36, Negley, welder, and Ashley Morris, 30, East Palestine, shipping clerk.

Shane Layman, 26, Wellsville, electrician, and Odessa Jenkins, 24, Wellsville, sorter.

Jamie Allen Jr., 25, Lisbon, Columbiana Col-Pump, and Alaina Cook, 23, Lisbon, unemployed.

Joshua Stalnaker, 22, Salem, robotics paint technician, and Hannah Schubert, 21, Salem, TSC team member.

Timothy Cassidy, 32, East Liverpool, carpenter, and Katie Girts, 36, East Liverpool, employment professional.

Costen Santelmo, 25, Pittsburgh, Pa., pharmacist, and Ava DelSignore, 25, Pittsburgh, Pa., radiation therapist.

Joel Little II, 59, Salem, tool & die maker, and Martha Wendel, 59, Salem, engineer.

Dennis Jones Jr., 31, East Liverpool, service tech 1, and Ashley Shank, 31, Wellsville, unemployed.

Josey Campbell, 42, East Palestine, CDL driver, and Lana Cristales, 31, East Palestine, stay at home mom.

Roger Quarterman II, 36, Salineville, millwright, and Megan McKee, 35, Salineville, licensed practical nurse.

Grand Jury

LISBON — Erin Faust, 39, Lakeview Drive, Hanoverton, was served Sunday with a secret indictment issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury for aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly possessing psilocyn on Sept. 15, 2023.

Municipal

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Oct. 28 for Lacey Riley, 31, Lexington Avenue, Salem, charged with fourth-degree felony fleeing/failure to comply and misdemeanor driving under suspension for allegedly fleeing from police attempting a traffic stop in Salem on Aug. 9.

A pretrial was set Oct. 3 for Lorie Harmon, 52, Lisbon Street, Wellsville, charged with domestic violence for allegedly causing physical harm to a woman on Sept. 1, choking her, shoving her into a door and hitting her in her hand.

A pretrial was set Oct. 7 for Alvin Pugh, 44, Fifth Street, East Liverpool, charged with domestic violence for allegedly threatening a woman and throwing a can of pop at her on Sept. 26 in East Liverpool.

Quantrel Samuel, 18, Y & O Road, East Liverpool, was fined $500 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 170 days suspended, leaving a balance of 10 days to serve for aggravated menacing and menacing amended from domestic violence. Samuel was ordered to complete 40 hours community service and to have no contact with the victim. He was accused of threatening to light a 17-year-old female on fire if she wasn’t back at the residence at a certain time. While making the alleged threat, he had her cornered in the bathroom with nowhere for her to go and he had just sprayed a can of body spray, making a flame with a lighter on Feb. 14 in St. Clair Township.

Scott Evan Seifert, 35, Boardman, was fined $650 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 85 days suspended, leaving five days still to serve in jail for attempted possession of drugs, possessing criminal tools and criminal mischief amended from engaging in prostitution. A charge of drug paraphernalia was dismissed. He was ordered to complete 40 hours community service and an online prostitution prevention course. Seifert was accused of responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a female in exchange for currency and narcotics, then traveling to East Palestine for the meeting on June 2. Seifert was found with two baggies containing a white powdery substance and also with cocaine in his possession.

James Jankovik, 67, Export, Pa., was fined $250 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for criminal mischief amended from engaging in prostitution. A charge of possessing criminal tools was dismissed. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service and a prostitution prevention course, which was already done. On May 27, Jankovik responded to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranged for sexual activity with a female in exchange for $140, then drove to East Palestine for the meeting.

James Howard Mowery, 45, Baden, Pa., was fined $750 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service and an online prostitution prevention course, which was already done. Mowery was accused of responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a female in exchange for $150 and then traveling to East Palestine in his company vehicle on July 2 for the meeting.

Christopher Ewing, 40, Vine Street, Salem, was fined $1,375 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 87 days suspended, leaving a balance of three days still to serve for operating a vehicle impaired, no license, possession of drug abuse instruments, drug paraphernalia and obstructing official business. He was ordered to complete 100 hours community service. When arrested for OVI on May 12 in East Liverpool, he possessed hypodermic needles, a bubble pipe, two glass pipes with white powder residue, multiple zipper baggies, a metal spoon with burnt residue and a black tray with white power residue. He also provided a fictitious name and date of birth to a trooper.

Ryan Blystone, 45, Claibourne Street, East Liverpool, was sentenced to 60 days in jail, with 60 days suspended, leaving no time to serve for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle for taking someone’s motorcycle and failing to return it on April 15 in East Liverpool.

Dylan Reynolds, 18, Wells Avenue, Wellsville, was fined $100 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for disorderly conduct amended from public indecency. He was ordered to complete 40 hours community service and to stay away from the juvenile victim. A police affidavit said Reynolds pulled down his pants and exposed his private parts at the 18th Street playground in Wellsville on May 1.

A probation violation hearing was set Oct. 29 for Nicole Jeffries, 34, Alliance, for a 2023 case of disorderly conduct.

A probation violation hearing was set Nov. 18 for James Conrad, 46, Montrose Street, East Liverpool, for a 2022 case of aggravated trespass.

Markell Smith, 19, East Main Street, Salineville, was fined $200 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 86 days suspended and credit for one day served, leaving a balance of three days still to serve in jail for obstructing official business. Smith was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. Smith told a state trooper that he did not know the driver of a vehicle which he was a passenger in that crashed on June 3 in Salineville, then later admitted who the driver was.

Kassie Adler, 33, Alliance, was fined $350 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 170 days suspended and credit for one day served, leaving a balance of nine days still to serve in jail for theft, a misdemeanor amended from a felony. Two other theft charges were dismissed. Adler was ordered to complete 40 hours community service. Adler was accused of stealing a woman’s purse at Salem Walmart on July 4 and stealing the contents, including three checkbooks, three credit cards, two cell phones, $80 cash and prescription medication.

A pretrial was set Jan. 9 for Christina Sanchez, 38, Holliday Street, East Liverpool, charged with criminal damaging for allegedly destroying garden lights on a neighbor’s property with a baseball bat, then coming onto the porch and hitting the front door and mailbox on July 5 in East Liverpool.

Steve Beaver, 48, St. George Street, East Liverpool, was fined $500 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 174 days suspended and credit for one day served, leaving five days to serve in jail for theft. A charge of possessing criminal tools was dismissed. He was ordered to complete 80 hours community service and to have no contact with Six Recycling or Hall China. Beaver stole five guard rails and numerous pieces of scrap metal from the Hall China building in East Liverpool and took the scrap to Six Recycling.

Brandi Raulerson, 36, Lake City, Fla., was fined $345 for driving under suspension, unsafe vehicle and no license. A charge of drug paraphernalia was dismissed. Raulerson was accused of possessing a cut straw and baggie with powder residue inside, a scale, a burnt glass pipe and a pill bottle with small blue pills inside.

A pretrial was set Oct. 28 for Stacy Love, 45, state Route 164, Leetonia, charged with illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to display valid sticker for allegedly possessing a fake sharpie with white residue inside and a digital scale during a traffic stop on Sept. 27 in Columbiana.

Christopher Zepernick, 43, Pine Street, Leetonia, was fined $600 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 175 days suspended, leaving a balance of five days to serve in jail for failure to stop, driving under suspension and obstructing official business. He was ordered to complete 200 hours of community service. Zepernick was accused of striking another vehicle in Leetonia on Dec. 27 or 28, 2023 and leaving the scene, placing the vehicle in a relative’s garage to hide it from law enforcement and claiming during an interview that his wife struck a deer.

Andrew Salata, 58, Stow, was fined $915 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 87 days suspended and credit for three days served in a driver intervention program, for operating a vehicle impaired and failure to control. His driver’s license was suspended for one year and he was ordered to complete 20 hours community service.

A pretrial was set Dec. 12 for Madison Frank, 21, Pearl Street, Leetonia, charged with OVI first offense and OVI breath first offense.

A motion hearing was set Oct. 28 for Jonathan Thompson, 30, South Lincoln Avenue, Lisbon, charged with OVI first offense, OVI breath first offense and left of center.

A pretrial was set Dec. 16 for Thomas Hilty, 39, Warren, charged with driving under suspension.

A pretrial was set Oct. 7 for Jonathan Feezle, 40, Carter Road, New Waterford, charged with driving under suspension.

Nancy Germanovich, 75, state Route 45, Lisbon, was fined $100 for a tail lights violation amended from speeding.

Jarrit Manley, 36, Salem Alliance Road, Salem, was fined $45 for speeding.

Giavanna Retort, 18, Lowellville, was fined $75 for speeding.

A driving under suspension charge was dismissed against Dylan Davidson, 31, Monroe Avenue, Salem.

Court News

LISBON — A Cleveland man accused of possessing child porn when he was caught in a sex for hire sting in Salem entered a guilty plea to multiple charges as part of a plea agreement in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.

Anthony Davila, 47, pleaded guilty to a lesser offense of attempted compelling prostitution, attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and four counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor or impair person, all fourth-degree felonies. He was originally charged with third-degree felony compelling prostitution.

Fifth-degree felonies of importuning and possessing criminal tools and six counts of fourth-degree felony pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person will be dismissed.

Sentencing was set for Nov. 22. According to the plea agreement, the state will recommend a sentence of one year for each count to be served consecutively for a total of six years in prison. The maximum possible penalty for the charges is 18 months in prison for each count.

Davila requested sexual conduct from a person he believed to be a 15-year-old female, but who was actually an undercover agent posing as a teen online, then drove to Salem on Jan. 27 for the meeting, with the phone he used to make the arrangements. The pandering charges all stem from Jan. 27.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— Quint Witherow, 43, state Route 344, Leetonia, pleaded guilty to theft from a person in a protected class and telecommunications fraud, both fourth-degree felonies, with sentencing set for Oct. 22. The indictment said Witherow deprived an elderly woman of $5,485 through telecommunications fraud from Feb. 22, 2023 to July 4, 2023.

— Bryan Veglia Jr., 32, Duke Vodrey Road, East Liverpool, pleaded guilty to two counts nonsupport of dependents, a fifth-degree felony, with sentencing set for Nov. 22, for failing to pay child support for two children from Sept. 27, 2020 to Sept. 25, 2022.