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County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Stephanie D. Dutcher Brown, Lisbon Street, East Liverpool, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Lisbon Street, East Liverpool property.
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Michael Anthony Kane, Pearl Street, Leetonia; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Pearl Street, Leetonia property.
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Clinton W. Hughes, Chester Avenue, Wellsville, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Chester Avenue, Wellsville property.
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Barbara E. Newlin, Jackman Street, East Liverpool, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Jackman Street, East Liverpool property.
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Melissa Hornbeck, Lisbon Street, East Liverpool, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Lisbon Street, East Liverpool property.
County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. James C. Argabrite, Oak Grove Road, Wellsville, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Oak Grove Road, Wellsville property.
Kyla Miller, Kennedy Drive, Salem, and Daniel Miller, Kennedy Drive, Salem; dissolution sought.
Shannon Hooper, Clover Avenue, Wellsville, and Kevin Hooper, Hibbetts-Mill Road, Wellsville; dissolution sought.
Ann L. Weigle, McClure Road, East Palestine, vs. Barry S. Weigle, McClure Road, East Palestine; divorce sought.
Heather L. Buchheit, Wedgewood Street, East Liverpool, and Michael J. Buchheit, Taggart Drive, Wellsville; dissolution sought.
Shayne C.A. Beagle, Eighth Street, Wellsville, vs. Jared M. Smith, Steubenville; divorce sought.
Ford Motor Credit Company LLC, Colorado Springs, Colo. vs. Mark A. Stanley, North Ellsworth Avenue, Salem; collection sought of alleged $12,169 debt.
Kinsale Insurance Company, Richmond, Va., vs. MJ Energy Inc., Broadview Circle, East Liverpool; confirmation of arbitration award sought.
Rocket Mortgage, LLC, Coppell, Texas, vs. Barry Weyand, state Route 344, Leetonia, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Columbiana County property.
DOCKET ENTRIES
Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC vs. Susan Fader; case stayed due to bankruptcy filing.
Joe Robert Barnhouse vs. Heather Sue Barnhouse; divorce granted.
John Earl Cianni and Starlyn Marie Cianni; dissolution granted.
American Express National Bank vs. Sean C. Ely; $9,111 judgment granted to plaintiff.
Village of Wellsville vs. Jean L. Desarro, et al.; $10,400 judgment granted to plaintiff.
Arley James Yerkey vs. Karlee Yerkey; divorce case dismissed.
Mary-Anne Belich vs. Travis Belich; divorce granted.
County Treasurer vs. Adam Newbold, et al.; delinquent property taxes paid, case dismissed.
Grand Jury
LISBON -- Secret indictments issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury were served Wednesday to the following:
-- Jessica A. Hill, 43, West Wilson Street, Salem, third-degree felony illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified government facility, fifth-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs and two counts of misdemeanor possession of drugs for allegedly possessing methamphetamine, alprazolam and buprenorphine and trying to take drugs onto the grounds of a detention facility on April 14, 2025.
-- Bryan K. Dilling, 54, North Ellsworth Avenue, Salem, failure to provide notice of change of address, a third-degree felony, for allegedly failing to notify the Columbiana County Sheriff's Office of his change of address for the sex offender registration on Aug. 13, 2026.
Municipal
LISBON -- In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Wayne K. Ayers Jr., 59, Main Street, Leetonia, was bound over to the county grand jury for third-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly pushing a woman and throwing a pan at her while she was trying to get her keys, wallet and clothes when she was trying to leave the Leetonia residence on Sept. 1.
A jury trial was set Nov. 5 for Duallen Joseph Dalton Stanford, 33, state Route 170, Negley, charged with endangering children, drug paraphernalia and two counts of assault related to an Oct. 3, 2024 incident when he allegedly started a physical altercation resulting in injuries to a man and a juvenile, punching both of them. He also allegedly possessed used needles and small white rocks of suspected narcotics in a wooden box under a bed during the incident.
Christopher Allen Dorsey, 45, Erie Street, East Liverpool, was fined $100 and given credit for one day served in jail for assault for snatching the glasses off of the victim and striking him in the eye with his fist on Aug. 3 in East Liverpool.
Alejandra Etziboe Cabrera, 26, South Lincoln Avenue, Salem, was fined $150 for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for causing cuts on another woman's hands, neck and face on Aug. 6 in Salem.
Andrea Elizabeth Cabrera, 25, South Lincoln Avenue, Salem, was fined $150 for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for causing cuts to another woman's mouth and hands on Aug. 6 in Salem.
Steven R. Dexter, 43, Old Monroeville Salineville, Salineville, was fined $50 and received credit for 18 days served in jail for disorderly conduct amended from assault for kicking a security guard in the knee and grabbing his arm while he was an alleged combative patient at East Liverpool City Hospital on August. 23.
Joel Felipe Lopez, 21, Sharon, Pa., was fined $2000 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 178 days suspended and credit for two days served, for engaging in prostitution, possessing criminal tools and obstructing official business. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service and 14 days electronically monitored house arrest and already completed the education course. Lopez was accused of responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a woman in exchange for $100 to be paid via the Cash Ap, then arrived in Unity Township for the meeting on July 8 and was refusing to exit the vehicle or roll down his window and was observed allegedly deleting data from his phone before the window was breached. A felony charge of tampering with evidence was dismissed at the request of the prosecutor.
Jeffrey Allen Jackson, 31, New Cumberland, W.Va., was fined $250 and given credit for 13 days served in jail for theft for selling someone else's chainsaw to a pawn shop in Chester, W.Va. on July 12, 2025 after it was reported stolen out of back of the owner's pickup truck on the same date in East Liverpool. He was also ordered to serve 30 days in jail, with credit for 13 days served, leaving a balance of 17 days to serve in jail for violating his probation in cases from 2024 for attempted possession of drugs and criminal damaging.
Robert Jeremy McKay, 56, Market Street, East Liverpool, was fined $500 and given credit for 11 days served in jail for possessing criminal tools and criminal trespass for using a knife to trespass in a building in East Liverpool on Aug. 19.
David Allen Barckhoff, 44, Grimms Bridge Road, East Liverpool, was fined $500 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 74 days suspended and credit for 13 days served in jail and another three days served in a driver intervention program for physical control and theft, with 20 hours community service ordered. Charges of driving under suspension and domestic violence were dismissed. He was ordered to stay away from Four Seasons Mini Mart. He was accused of stealing a bottle of liquor stuffed in the back of his pants from the Four Seasons Mini Mart in St. Clair Township valued at $5.99. The domestic violence charge stemmed from an incident on Aug. 27 in St. Clair Township involving a woman whose wrists were allegedly grabbed, leaving bruises on both arms. The prosecutor requested dismissed of the charge.
Rachel B. Troup, 49, Ravine Street, East Liverpool, was ordered to serve 20 days in jail, with credit for 11 days served, leaving a balance of nine days to serve in jail for violating the terms of her probation for a 2023 case of drug paraphernalia.
Blaine Scott Vadino, 25, Longs Crossing Road, Leetonia, was fined $150 for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for pushing a woman into a chair and causing injury on June 15 in Salem Township.
Kandice Leann Cunningham, 52, Old Fredericktown Road, East Liverpool, was fined $200 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 29 days suspended and credit for one day served, with 20 hours community service, for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for threatening to kill a man during a domestic in St. Clair Township on Jan. 5.
James Davisson, 30, Laurel Lane, East Liverpool, was fined $250 and given credit for two days served in jail for disorderly conduct amended from assault and for intoxication for being intoxicated and striking another man in the face on June 24 in East Liverpool.
Albert M. Fullerton, 63, Mick Road, Wellsville, was ordered to serve 22 days in jail for violating the terms of his probation for a 2025 case of violation of a protection order. He was also fined $750 and given credit for 68 days in jail for merged operating a vehicle impaired charges and a charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. His license was suspended for three years.
Joseph Biser, 19, Franklin Avenue, Salem, was fined $150 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 29 days suspended and credit for one day served, with 35 hours community service, for menacing. An affidavit said Biser was in Marc's and said he had a gun and was going to shoot people on Aug. 30 in Salem.
Angel J. Myers, 26, Center Avenue, Lisbon, was fined $250 and given credit for two days served in jail for violating a temporary protection order for approaching a protected person on Aug. 18, 2025 in Perry Township.
Haley R. Michaels, 26, South 12th Street, Beloit, was fined $350 and given credit for three days served in jail for falsification, with another charge of falsification dismissed. Michaels made a false statement to incriminate another person on April 21.
Jennifer Brooks, 44, Alliance, was fined $250 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 179 days suspended and credit for one day served, with 40 hours community service, for theft for stealing five packs of cigarettes, three bottles of pop and one frozen drink all valued at $39 while working at Duchess, U.S. Route 62, Alliance on April 28.
A pretrial was set Nov. 3 for George Allen Merrill, 60, Moore Street, East Liverpool, charged with theft for allegedly concealing two bottles of vodka valued at $8.56 in his pants on Sept. 8 at Giant Eagle in East Liverpool.
A pretrial was set Nov. 4 for James Joseph Platz, 45, Midland, Pa., charged with theft for allegedly stealing a beer valued at $3.19 from Sheetz on March 11 in East Liverpool.
Tera A. Alexander, 21, Alliance, was fined $450 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 29 days suspended and credit for one day served, for criminal trespass and two counts of disorderly conduct, with one amended from obstructing official business. She must complete 25 hours community service and stay away from the Foundry in Salem. She was acting disorderly and throwing bottles at Fernengels and then going inside the kitchen at the Foundry next door and stumbling around without permission on April 18 in Salem. She was asked to leave the Foundry and snuck back in to hide from police. During her arrest she was refusing to get into the cruiser.
Heather M. Reed, 42, Broadway Avenue, Wellsville, was fined $300 and received credit for one day served in jail for theft and drug paraphernalia for possessing a crack pipe and being part of a crew that stole 50 items from the Calcutta Walmart valued at $849.64 on July 1.
Christina Ann Reed, 43, Broadway Avenue, Wellsville, was fined $300 and given credit for one day served in jail for theft and criminal trespass for a shoplifting incident when she was part of a crew that stole 50 items from the Calcutta Walmart valued at $849.64 on July 1.
A pretrial was set Nov. 18 for Mykel L. Crooms, 18, Grimms Bridge Road, East Liverpool, charged with theft and two counts of criminal damaging for allegedly stealing a woman's cell phone, running from the scene of the incident in Lisbon on Nov. 10, 2025 and smashing the cell phone, leaving it inoperable in the woods behind BP gas station. He also threw a rock at the window of her house in St. Clair Township and smashed it out.
Alvin Stanley Pugh, 46, Etruria Street, East Liverpool, was fined $150 for criminal trespass for being on a condemned property in East Liverpool outside the hours he was permitted to work on the home on June 25.
Josiah Rance Jones, 18, Simmons Street, East Liverpool, was fined $250 and sentenced to 10 days in jail, with credit for one day served, leaving nine days to serve in jail for theft for stealing another man's bicycle from Circle K in Lisbon on July 3.
Dustin M. Andrews, 28, state Route 170, East Palestine, was fined $1,050 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with credit for 14 days served, leaving a balance of 16 days to serve for drug paraphernalia, theft, drug paraphernalia amended from possess instruments to ingest and failure to comply. He stole two weld-paks and multiple battery-powered tools from inside a garage in Negley on Jan. 27 and fled from deputies when they attempted a traffic stop on Feb. 21 in Middleton Township. On Feb. 11, 2025 in Lisbon, he possessed a cut straw with white residue during a traffic stop and he possessed paraphernalia during a traffic stop on Aug. 23, 2023 in St. Clair Township.
Thomas R. Welsh Jr., 41, East Fourth Street, Salem, was fined $150 and given credit for one day served in jail for drug paraphernalia amended from possess instruments to ingest for possessing a glass pipe on Aug. 27 in Lisbon.
A pretrial was set Nov. 10 for Sherri Ometric Denise Wallace, 38, South Lincoln Avenue, Salem, for OVI and reasonable control.
A pretrial was set Nov. 16 for Charles McLaughlin, 30, Ogden Street, East Liverpool, for OVI and driving under suspension.
Richard C. Short, 58, Rose Drive, Lisbon, was fined $450 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 90 days suspended and credit for 10 days served, leaving a balance of 80 days still to serve for receiving stolen property, amended from a felony to a misdemeanor, and misdemeanor criminal trespass, with 20 hours community service. Short possessed a stolen compound bow and body armor in Lisbon on Aug. 28 and trespassed in a vacant apartment.
Brandon Lee Jones, 25, Fourth Street, East Liverpool, was fined $200 and received credit for 14 days served in jail for disorderly conduct and pedestrian on roadway. He was cited on June 2, 2024 for walking in a road in East Liverpool and again on Sept. 9, 2024 in the middle of East Sixth Street East Liverpool.
A court trial was set Sept. 29 for Bocephus James McElroy, 24, Newell, W.Va., charged with criminal damaging and disorderly conduct for allegedly yelling at a police officer, wanting to fight, and then kicking the door of the police cruiser, bending the door on Sept. 5. He had wrecked his bicycle while intoxicated and left East Liverpool City Hospital without being treated before the incident with police.
Tyler O. Starkey, 27, last known address Huntington, Idaho, was fined $520 for obstructing official business, no license, traffic control devices, no license and tinted glass. He provided a false name and social security number during a traffic stop in Lisbon.