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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set March 30 for Matthew Scott Howard, 39, Annesley Road, East Liverpool, charged with fifth-degree felony improper handling firearms in a motor vehicle and misdemeanors of operating a vehicle impaired first offense and OVI refusal with prior within 20 years. Howard allegedly had a loaded 9mm handgun in a holster near the handlebars of his motorcycle during a traffic stop while allegedly impaired on March 9 in Elkrun Township. A pretrial was set May 27 for Christina M. Falconer, 49, Bower ...

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Sheriff’s Office — Deputies were dispatched at 6:39 p.m. Friday to Steubeville Pike Road, Center Township, for a medical call for a 50-year-old person having a heart attack. Dispatch advised there was a lot of yelling in the background and an ambulance was en route. Dispatch then said to disregard, the person was being transported by family. — An alarm was reported at 12:15 a.m. Thursday in the area of West Main Street, Salineville. Deputies located the residence where the alarm was sounding and found a smoke detector on the porch beeping. Deputies eventually made contact with ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against David Q. Rhodes, 53, Creek Road, New Waterford, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony strangulation and misdemeanor domestic violence for allegedly grabbing a woman by the neck, causing her to have a hard time breathing, and throwing her to the ground during a domestic on Feb. 25 in Unity Township. Cases against Darrien J. Greenlee, 32, North Market Street, Lisbon, were bound over to the county grand jury for harassment with a bodily substance, a fifth-degree felony, and misdemeanors ...

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Chester David Robinson, of Newell, was arrested for Driving While License Revoked (second offense) and Improper Registration. Johnathan Montgomery, of New Cumberland, was arrested for fleeing from an officer and underage consumption. Diana Parsons, of Beaver, Pa., was arrested for DUI. Timothy Ward, of Chester, was arrested for domestic battery. Jacob Cameron, of New Cumberland, was arrested for underage consumption. Dante Wells, of Chester, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and no operator’s license. Jordan McElroy, of East Springfield, was cited for ...

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Grand Jury —Taylor Scott Snyder, 35, North Market Street, East Palestine, strangulation and domestic violence, both fourth-degree felonies, and misdemeanor aggravated menacing for allegedly beating a woman and saying he was going to kill her on Jan. 29 in East Palestine. The affidavit said he allegedly threw her around like a rag doll, biting her left ear, kicking her in the back of her neck, attempting to gouge her eye out, pulling her earrings out, punching her and putting her in a headlock. — Joshua R. Greene, 41, North Lincoln Avenue, Salem, fourth-degree felony strangulation ...

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Sheriff’s Office — A resident of Salem Grange Road, Salem Township reported at 11:56 p.m. Tuesday that a vehicle pulled into the Franklin Square Cemetery on Salem Grange Road and turned off their headlights. A deputy responded and spoke with the driver of the vehicle, of Salem, and his female passenger, of Canton, and they advised they were leaving the property. — A deputy was dispatched at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday to Twin Springs Golf Course, state Route 172, Hanover Township, for two explosions on the property and flames seen from behind the club house. The deputy and Hanover ...