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POLICE

St. Clair Township — A driver was given a verbal warning for no license plate during a March 12 traffic stop on state Route 170. — Officers spoke to a male in an Irish Ridge Road parking lot on March 12, who told them he had been there for hours waiting for a female who was sitting in a vehicle with her two kids to leave. He noted the female did not have a license. Officers spoke to the female who told them the male flattened her tires, and she had no way of getting them fixed. The female was advised to call a friend and have them come get her and the vehicle or it would be ...

REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Julia A. Wack to Zachary and Christyn Miller, home on Slater Road; $258,000 Marian J. Earley (trustee) to Allegheny Wesleyan College, home and other residential structures on Burtview Place; $270,000 Columbiana Larry B. Stevens to Rickey and Dona Dawson, home on Bell Avenue; $270,000 East Liverpool Connie M. Neal to Andrew M. and Leah C. Balser, other residential structures on Anderson Boulevard; $35,000 First Choice Property Acquisition to Jacob M. Russell, 12.391 acres agricultural vacant land on Kingsridge Road; $41,500 Conor J. Faloon to Logan A. Ford ...

POLICE

St. Clair Township — Officers were sent to Echo Dell Trailer Park on March 11 in response to a male making statements about harming himself. The male told officers he never made those comments and was trying to sleep for work the next morning. The female who made the call reporting his comments and he were apparently arguing at the time. — A driver was released with a warning for no taillights following a March 11 traffic stop on St. Clair Avenue. — Officers investigating an alarm at a Calcutta Smith Ferry Road location on March 11 found the location to be secure. — Mason ...

THE COURTS

Court News LISBON — A Columbiana man accused of possessing images of child pornography was ordered evaluated again for current competency and sanity at the time of the offenses. Richard Braham, 27, West Park Avenue, had previously been found competent and without serious mental issues in the fall, but his defense attorney Charley Kidder requested another evaluation last month. Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam ordered the evaluations be done by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio and set a new status hearing for April 16. A trial date of Feb. 13 ...

POLICE

East Liverpool — An officer searched the area of West Fifth Street on March 11 for a semi-truck reported to be stuck under a bridge. — Officers investigated a complaint of the odor of crack cooking at Fawcett Apartments on March 11. — Jerimee Csonka, 47, address not provided, was arrested on an outstanding warrant during a March 11 traffic stop on West Fifth Street. — Wendell Powell, 46, address not provided, was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence and issued a citation for one headlight during a March 11 traffic stop on state Route 11. According to the ...

THE COURTS

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, charges of engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools were dismissed against Olusegun G. Atoyebi, 40, last known address listed as Clive, Iowa, who’s in federal custody on an alleged immigration-related federal offense. Atoyebi had been accused of allegedly responding to an undercover ad placed by a Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force agent on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a woman in exchange for $100, then arrived in East Palestine on Nov. 30, 2025 for the meeting with the phone ...