Common Pleas

New Cases

George & Knox, Ltd., Homeworth Road, Homeworth vs. Quality Oil & Gas Corp., Parkside Drive, Alliance; declaratory judgment sought related to oil and gas lease.

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, Coral Gables, Fla., vs. Anna Engelhart, West Ninth Street, Salem, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Columbiana County property.

Bonnie McKarns, Morgan Court, Salem, vs. Salem Regional Medical Center, East State Street, Salem, et al.; damages sought for medical malpractice and lack of informed consent claims related to alleged negligent medical treatment on Nov. 11, 2024.

Docket Entries

Westlake Services, LLC, doing business as Westlake Financial Services; $13,571 judgment granted to plaintiff.

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC vs. Jaaron S. Noble, et al.; foreclosure judgment vacated, complaint dismissed.

Citizens Bank, NA vs. Kevin Cermak, et al.; case reinstated to active docket and dismissed.

County Treasurer vs. Betty Dorris; payment plan stay lifted, case reinstated to active docket.

County Treasurer vs. Black Pearl Investments LLC, et al.; payment plan stay lifted, case reinstated to active docket.

County Treasurer vs. Angela C. Adkins, et al; payment plan stay lifted, case reinstated to active docket.

County Treasurer vs. Devon Reeder, now known as Backus; payment plan stay lifted, case reinstated to active docket.

County Treasurer vs. Riverview Acres, Inc.; payment plan stay lifted, case reinstated to active docket.

County Treasurer vs. Tina Marie Hancock; payment plan stay lifted, case reinstated to active docket.

County Treasurer vs. unknown heirs, etc. of Don E. Santee, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure ordered for Lexington Avenue property.

County Treasurer vs. Truth for Life Word Ministries; delinquent property tax foreclosure ordered for Main Street, Wellsville property.

County Treasurer vs. Paul Mauch, et al.; delinquent property taxes paid, case dismissed.

County Treasurer vs. Rebecca Smith now known as Talbot, et al.; payment plan entered, case stayed.

County Treasurer vs. John Collier, et al.; payment plan stay lifted, case reinstated to active docket.

Marriage Licenses

Daniel E. Gryder Jr., 62, East Liverpool, electrical engineer, and Soni Lynn Potts, 58, East Liverpool, bank manager.

Terell A. Miller, 22, Sainte Genevieve, Mo., carpenter, and Lauren C. Neuenschwander, 21, Leetonia, homemaker.

Zachary S. Francis, 27, Salineville, foundry worker, and Rebecca I. Maynard-Francis, 27, Salineville, unemployed.

Tyler S. Beatty, 26, East Liverpool, retail, and Alexus A. Resanovich, 25, East Liverpool, retail.

Parker G. Hydrick, 25, Salem, finance manager, and Macey J. Austin, 25, Salem, content producer.

Owen J. Davis, 19, Hanoverton, United States Marine, and Sydney A. Billy, 18, Lisbon, unemployed.

Joseph W. Downard, 63, East Liverpool, retired, and Gail A. Angus, 62, Wellsville, retired.

David J. Walter, 62, Alliance, shop manager, and Debra J. Barnette, also known as Debra J. Doan, Alliance, STNA.

Alias C. Reno, 25, Salem, diesel mechanic, and Chelsea L. Moffett, 26, Salem, sale representative.

Municipal

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a psychological examination by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio was ordered for Jonathan D. Cook, 42, Oak Street, Leetonia, for competency and sanity.

Cook has three separate criminal cases pending, including the latest for menacing for alleging making credible threats to seriously injure or cause the death of a woman and her family by saying he would take a hatchet to them, an affidavit said. The threat occurred April 23 during a group counseling session at the Columbiana County jail where Cook has been held since an April 6 incident in Leetonia.

For that incident, he’s facing charges of aggravated menacing, criminal damaging, resisting arrest, obstructing official business and disorderly conduct for allegedly throwing a metal knife, an axe, a frying pan, a steel tumbler and car parts at the side of a neighboring residence in close proximity of a window that one of three victims was standing behind as he screamed profanities at all of them on Oak Street, Leetonia. He then refused to exit his residence as Leetonia officers attempted to place him in custody and barricaded himself in his house by placing a propane tank and numerous items against the rear door.

A third case was for disorderly conduct for allegedly screaming profusely while inside and outside his residence causing neighbors to call emergency services on two separate occasions and also for striking and punching multiple things inside the residence on Feb. 13. Leetonia Police had allegedly warned him on multiple occasions.

A preliminary/pretrial hearing was set May 4 for Randy Allison Martin, 39, Broadway Avenue, Wellsville, charged with fifth-degree felony vandalism and misdemeanors of theft and escape for allegedly leaving East Liverpool City Hospital and prying off the electronic ankle monitor placed on him by the sheriff’s office when he was receiving treatment at the hospital on April 20, damaging the ankle monitor. On Feb. 18, he allegedly removed merchandise from the packaging and concealed the items on his person, with three items valued at $56, at the Calcutta Walmart, then fled on foot.

A preliminary/pretrial hearing was set May 4 for Gage M. Gillespie, 18, Vine Street, East Liverpool, charged with fourth-degree felony grand theft auto and misdemeanor criminal damaging for allegedly stealing a motorcycle on April 19 in East Liverpool, removing lights, cutting wires and defacing the vehicle emblems.

A sentencing hearing was set May 4 for Alex N. Deetz, 36, Uhrichsville, who pleaded no contest and was found guilty of domestic violence and aggravated menacing for making multiple threats to come to a couple’s residence to murder them and burn down their house on March 29 in Rogers.

A pretrial was set May 11 for Shane Robert Murphy, 20, South Linden Avenue, Alliance, charged with two counts of menacing for allegedly making threats against a woman and a man, to slit their throats and shoot them during a telephone conversation in Leetonia on Feb. 9, also threatening another woman. He was also set May 11 for a probation violation hearing for a 2025 case of assault and attempted vandalism.

Gregg A. Robinson, 51, Ohio Avenue, Salem, was fined $250 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 89 days suspended and credit for one day served, for assault amended from domestic violence. Robinson was accused of hitting a relative in the head with a flashlight, pushing him down and striking him with his fists on July 24, 2025 in Salem Township.