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East Liverpool — Officers assisted a St. Clair Township police officer at Tri-State Ford with an investigation he was currently working on regarding a stolen phone from Walmart. The St. Clair Township officer interviewed the male who admitted to taking the phone. — Officers took a report for property damage on May 1 for a resident who said the bricks on the top of her Jackman Street property retaining wall were broken off. — Officers investigating a possible assault on East 5th Street on May 1 viewed video footage and determined no assault took place. It was people trying ...

THE COURTS

Court News LISBON — An East Liverpool man who entered guilty pleas to numerous charges in March, including a first-degree felony fentanyl possession charge, drug trafficking charges and obstructing official business was sentenced recently to at least five years in prison. Marques Marquell Kimmie, 30, Pennsylvania Avenue, appeared for sentencing in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for the two cases. For the one case involving first-degree felony possession of a fentanyl-related compound and fourth-degree felonies of trafficking in cocaine and possession of cocaine, he was ...

REAL ESTATE

Columbiana Dominic Italiano III to Firestone Touch Free Car Wash LLC, .731 commercial vacant land on state Route 14; $139,000 East Liverpool James R. Johnson et al to Hayden Jackson, two-family dwelling on Thompson Avenue; $108,000 Fairfield Township David E. Smith to Michael J. and Stephanie M. Wolfe, home on Middleton Township; $460,000 Knox Township Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC to Bonnie Bruno, home on Lake Front Drive; $118,000 Perry Township Salem Real Properties LLC to Rane and Beth Lottinville, manufacturing light assembly, industrial vacant land and commercial ...

POLICE

East Liverpool — Following a May 1 traffic stop on Pennsylvania Avenue William Oiler, age and address not provided, was issued a citation for failure to signal when making a turn. Oiler gave the officers verbal consent to search his vehicle. The rear seat passenger in the vehicle, identified as Richard Hutton, age and address not provided, is known to officers to be involved in drug activity. Hutton was asked by officers to step out of the vehicle. After refusing several times, Hutton exited the vehicle and was patted down for weapons. After feeling a metal object in the front of ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — Salem police at 8:26 p.m. Wednesday requested a deputy check an address on U.S. Route 30, Kensington to see if a black Mercedes was there. The deputy did not see the car, but family came out and said the person no longer lives there but will try to contact him and relay a message. — A report of drugs and a juvenile on County Home Road, Lisbon was reported at 9:43 p.m. Wednesday with no further information. — An unruly juvenile was reported at 8:27 p.m. Wednesday on Cunningham Road, Salem where a man said his teenage son was being unruly, not listening, not ...

THE COURTS

Court News LISBON —A man caught during a drug raid in February 2025 near Franklin Square entered a guilty plea recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court to multiple drug counts, with sentencing set for July 9. Matthew Bays, 38, East Perry Street, Salem, pleaded guilty to third-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs, fifth-degree felonies of two counts aggravated possession of drugs and one count possession of a fentanyl-related compound, two counts of misdemeanor possession of drugs and a specification for forfeiture of money from a drug case. A charge of aggravated ...