Common Pleas

NEW CASES

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Jay D. Pitcher, East Fourth Street, Salem; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for West State Street, Salem property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon vs. Z. Doris Newton, Lower Elkton Road, Leetonia; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Lower Elkton Road, Leetonia property.

County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Infiniti LLC, Esther Avenue, Wellsville, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Esther Avenue, Wellsville property.

State Ex Rel. Kevin J. Simballa and Kevin J. Simballa, both state Route 517, Lisbon, vs. Eric Vendel, chief Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Columbus, and Hilcorp Energy I, L.P., Columbus; ruling sought regarding compensation to plaintiff for property interest and damages sought for alleged breach of contract, unjust enrichment and conversion.

DOCKET ENTRIES

Cleo DeWitt vs. Tyler Burgess; divorce granted.

Joseph Bernier, doing business as Let It Roll Pizzeria, vs. estate of Vickie Lambert; tortious interference with business relationship claim denied, $3,956 judgment granted to plaintiff for breach of contract.

Capital One, N.A. vs. Cera Lockwood; case dismissed.

Clearview Federal Credit Union vs. Jacob S. Vantilburg; case dismissed.

Norma Hylton-Carr, et al. vs. Carter J. Melott; $9,142 judgment granted to plaintiff.

Municipal

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against D’Anthony Chaundel Brown, 32, Youngstown, was bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony operating a vehicle impaired fourth offense. Another case of OVI fourth offense, OVI breath fourth offense and misdemeanor left of center was dismissed, along with a speeding charge. Brown was accused of allegedly driving impaired with three prior OVI arrests within 10 years on his record on May 2 in Fairfield Township.

Cases against Richard Wayne Hutton, 32, St. George Street, East Liverpool, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony receiving stolen property and misdemeanor drug paraphernalia. During a traffic stop on May 1 in East Liverpool, when he stepped out of the vehicle, a burnt glass pipe allegedly fell out of his shorts and he possessed crack cocaine. He also allegedly possessed a loaded stolen .45-caliber handgun located inside his back pack with his belongings.

Cases against Bryan Keith Dilling, 54, last known address Rose Drive, Lisbon, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony failure to report change of address and misdemeanor falsification for allegedly failing to notify the sheriff’s office of his change of address for the sex offender registration on May 6 in Lisbon and giving the sheriff’s address a false address, for a property where he did not live.

Hayden J. Hunt, 21, Laurelville, was fined $1,165 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 167 days suspended, with credit for one day served in jail and three days served in a driver intervention program, leaving nine days to serve in jail and 30 days to serve in electronically monitored house arrest for failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer, a misdemeanor amended from a felony, and misdemeanors of operating a vehicle impaired first offense and reckless operation for fleeing from police in Salem on May 4 until he was stopped on a dead end road. He must complete 20 hours community service.

A pretrial was set June 1 for Tiffany Sobien, 26, Boyce Street, East Liverpool, charged with domestic violence for allegedly hitting a child, causing injury, and then telling the child to lie about it on May 7 in East Liverpool.

A pretrial was set May 27 for Nicholas Devan Gardner, 53, Globe Street, East Liverpool, charged with endangering children and domestic violence for allegedly picking up two knives while yelling at a woman and slamming them off the top of the stove, breaking the stove top, while cursing at a child and then throwing the knives on the ground, with one almost striking the child in the leg on May 19 in East Liverpool.

Timothy Franklin Gibbs, 38, College Street, East Liverpool, was fined $150 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 20 days suspended and credit for 10 days served, for disorderly conduct amended from assault, with 20 hours community service ordered. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim. Gibbs struck another man four times in the side of the head on May 9 in East Liverpool.

A pretrial was set July 20 for Heather E Walsh, 40, Youngstown, charged with menacing for allegedly threatening to beat a woman on May 19 in East Liverpool,

Crystal Lee Shreve, 47, Florence Street, East Liverpool, was fined $150 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for menacing, with 20 hours community service ordered. She was ordered to have no contact with the victim. She threatened to beat another woman on Feb. 21 in East Liverpool.

Tammy Joe Manley, 27, Riley Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $200 and received a suspended 180-day jail term for two counts endangering children for having two children out in 35-degree weather wearing only shorts and a shirt with no socks and no jacket in East Liverpool on Nov. 29, 2025.

A pretrial was set July 21 for Richard G. Prendergast, 64, South Lundy Avenue, Salem, charged with public indecency for allegedly pulling his pants down and defecating in the Salem Family Care parking lot on May 4 in Salem.

Timothy R. Noling, 64, Brookdale Avenue, East Palestine, was fined $200 and received credit for jail time served for one day for disorderly conduct for using loud and abusive language with post office employees at the East Palestine Post Office on May 19

Sonya M. Andric, 55, Gaskill Drive, Alliance, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating the terms of his probation for 2025 cases of criminal trespass, drug paraphernalia and two cases of theft..

Donna J. May, 39, Sell Road, Lisbon, was fined $350 and given a suspended 90-day jail term for criminal damaging and drug paraphernalia, with 40 hours community service ordered. She hit her head off of a wall and punched a door, damaging both on Feb. 28 in Center Township. She also possessed three clear pipes with burnt crystal residue and clear baggies with a white crystal substance on March 9.

Ryan D. Armstrong, 41, Depot Road, Salem, was fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days in jail for theft for failing to scan and pay for several items totaling $34 on Feb. 16 at the Salem Walmart.

A status conference hearing was set June 17 for Charles Raymond Lewis, 43, Dresden Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with theft and criminal trespass for allegedly stealing wood and tire rings from the former East Liverpool Motor Lodge after trespassing on the Dresden Avenue property.

A status conference hearing was set July 15 and a court trial was set July 22 for David M. Butcher, 53, Woodland Avenue, Salem, charged with criminal trespass for allegedly trespassing in a Salem apartment on Third Street on March 9.

A pretrial was set July 21 for Dana A. Musulin, 43, Taylor Road, Negley, charged with drug paraphernalia for allegedly possessing a glass pipe with burn marks, a torch lighter, a container with a pink substance and a pink and white rock substance on May 19 in East Palestine.

A pretrial was set July 8 for Logan L. Peters, 19, Spencerville, charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle and speeding for allegedly possessing two handguns in his vehicle during a traffic stop on April 25 in Leetonia.

A pretrial was set July 21 for Sherry Diana Long, 42, West Martin Street, East Palestine, charged with operating a vehicle impaired first offense, OVI urine and reasonable control.

Daniel Lee Marriotti, 29, Pancake Clarkson Road, Rogers, was fined $250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 27 days suspended, leaving three days to serve in jail for reckless operation amended from OVI, with a charge of slow speed dismissed. His license was suspended for two years, with 20 hours community service ordered.

Vincent Syversten, 28, Salem Alliance Road, Salem, was fined $925 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 170 days suspended, leaving 10 days to serve for OVI and failure to control. His license was suspended for two years, with 20 hours community service ordered.

A disposition hearing was set May 20 for Kevin Eugene Bowen, 50, Darlington, Pa., charged with OVI second offense, OVI breath second offense and reasonable control.

municipal

Evan M. Mathewson, 18, Randel Road, Hanoverton, was fined $125 for no license amended from operating off road vehicle on roadway and lighted lights amended from operating a vehicle all purpose vehicle without proper lights.

Diego H. Lambo, 59, Sprucevale Road, East Liverpool, was ordered to pay costs only for lighted lights amended from speeding.

Leanna Eve Risbeck, 24, West Perry Street, Salem, was fined $50 for driving while texting, but the fine will be suspended and no point assessed if proof of completion of a distracted driving course is provided.

Lisa Marie Drennan, 47, Chester, W.Va., was fined $35 for speeding.