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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set April 8 for Travis B. Ferguson, 39, 10th Street Extension, Wellsville, charged with fourth-degree felony passing bad checks for allegedly issuing a bad check for $1,018 to Quaker City Septic in Leetonia on Sept. 16, 2025. A pretrial was set May 27 for Thomas Randall Hughes II, 38, state Route 154, Negley, charged with theft for allegedly attempting to scan 32-cent stickers for all of his items at the Calcutta Walmart, trying to take 11 items valued at $243 on Jan. 24. A sentencing hearing was ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a Salineville woman has been bound over to the grand jury for allegedly having a knife out at the Utica Shale Academy. Britania B. Brown, 44, Haiti Road, is charged with illegal conveyance or possession of a deadly weapon in a school safety zone, a fifth-degree felony. Salineville police officers were called to the Utica Shale school on East Main Street, Salineville on Jan. 14 for a report of a woman with a knife and found Brown a few blocks away at BK Beverage. A police affidavit said she admitted to having a knife open ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A juvenile-related report was taken at 7:35 p.m. Tuesday on Lowmiller Road, West Township, with a copy sent to Child Protective Services. — A woman on Millrock Road, Unity Township requested a report be placed on file at 3:31 p.m. Tuesday, per Medicare, that someone hacked into her husband’s account. — Robert Byrd Jr., 45, Tallmadge, was charged with two counts of menacing for allegedly knowingly threatening deputies while in the line of duty during an incident at East Liverpool City Hospital, where he had been transported from the jail. According to a ...

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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 ...

POLICE

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 ...

THE COURTS

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 ...