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St. Clair Township
-- An officer and K-9 were requested to assist the highway patrol with an open-air sniff on Third Street on Aug. 12. After the K-9 alerted on the seam of the front passenger door of the vehicle, a probable cause search of the vehicle was conducted during which officers found a meth pipe with residue in a purse on the front passenger seat. The driver said it was hers. The evidence was seized by the highway patrol.
-- Officers who arrived at an Echo Dell Road residence on Aug. 12 and spoke to a female who told them she was having thoughts of harming herself. North Star was called and transported the female to the hospital.
-- An officer dispatched to state Route 11 on Aug. 13 for a male that was trying to flag down vehicles, located the male under the overpass. The male identified as Malcolm Schoonover, 50, was found to have an outstanding warrant through the Columbiana County Sheriff's Office and was placed under arrest and transported to the jail.
-- Officers conducting a welfare check on a male at McCoy Avenue residence on Aug. 13 contacted North Star who transported the male to the hospital with a pink slip.
-- An officer who spoke with a Duke Road resident who said that someone had thrown trash over his hillside on Aug. 13. The officer told the male that manpower is low, but officers would try to do extra checks in the area.
-- An officer returned a phone call on Aug. 14 to a male who said that people keep coming on his property and creeping around and that a male in a Subaru came pass the no trespass sign and drove up to the construction site and got out of his vehicle and was looking around. He provided the officer with the plate number from the car. He told the officer nothing was taken but wanted a report on file. The male refused to give any of his information when requested so it was not attached to the report.
-- Officers investigated a pick-up truck parked in a storage unit that was supposed to be empty at Bolt Storage on Clearview Drive on Aug. 14. The caller who rents a neighboring unit said he wanted a report on file because he noticed there were openings in the top of the units where you can go from one unit to another and that he wanted that known just in case his stuff comes up missing or tampered with.
-- An officer going to park in the law enforcement parking lot at Walmart found a black Chevy truck parked in the spot labeled Law Enforcement parking spot. The officer approached the driver identified as Robert Sentz, who told the officer that he is not special. The officer asked Sentz for his license multiple times after being told he would be arrested if he did not provide it, Sentz showed his license. Sentz was issued a citation for parking in a clearly marked spot. Sentz then told the officer he was handicapped and took out a placard; the office noted that it was the passenger and not Sentz that went into the store.
-- Officers spoke with the brother of a man recently released from the hospital after being pink slipped for being suicidal and homicidal and told officers on Aug. 16, the family had gone by his house and could not locate him but they found his phone smashed and his ID and keys on the floor and his vehicle in the garage and requested a welfare for his brother. Officers arrived at the brothers McCoy Avenue residence and got no response when they knocked. Officers searched the home again and did not locate him. They checked all the buildings on the property. A family member came to the police station to file a missing person's report after the hospital notified them the brother had been released. On Aug. 17, officers were notified that the missing male had been located at Belmont Mental Institution where he was transferred to from East Liverpool City Hospital and was not to be released until they could complete a mental evaluation.
-- Kevin Neely, 44, was arrested and charged on Aug. 16 with aggravated menacing after it was reported he pointed a firearm at another male and threatened to kill him at an Annesley Road residence. Neely left the residence and was found later by officers at his mother's Surry Road residence in East Liverpool. Officers detained Neely and located a replica firearm that was close to the description provided by the male. Officers noted that Neely was at the time out on bond for a felony domestic violence case. Neely was taken to the hospital before being transported to jail.