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Sheriff’s Office — A domestic violence report was taken at a residence on Main Street, Knox Township after a deputy was dispatched at 10:04 p.m. Tuesday. All parties separated for the night and a refusal was signed. — A 911 hangup call was reported at 12:16 a.m. Tuesday at the Travelers Motel, state Route 45, Center Township. A deputy arrived and drove through the parking lot several times with emergency lights activated to provoke a response from the caller. A woman looked out the window from the office area, but did not attempt contact. — A suspicious person was reported ...

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St. Clair Township — A female who was reported to be slumped over the steering wheel of her car on Birch Road on Feb. 3 told officers she had gotten stuck in the snow, and someone was on their way to get her out. — Officers found Advance Auto on St. Clair Avenue secure after investigating an alarm on Feb. 3. — An officer who saw a male sleeping in his vehicle at a gas pump at Sheetz on Feb. 4, was told by the male he had a headache and was trying to sleep it off before driving home. — Officers notified Ohio State Highway Patrol of a deer versus car crash on state Route ...

THE COURTS

Court News LISBON — A Lisbon man accused of pushing a corrections officer at the Columbiana County jail last year was sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to assault, a fifth-degree felony. Donovain M. Casey, 20, Roller Coaster Road, entered the plea in county Common Pleas Court recently. He was charged with pushing the corrections officer while he was an inmate at the county jail on April 23, 2025. The nine-month prison term was ordered served consecutive to the sentence of two years six months he’s already serving for violating the terms of his probation ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set March 16 for Sean Zett, 40, Ravenna, charged with grand theft auto, a fourth-degree felony, for allegedly stealing a 2024 Ford Raptor under the ruse of identifying himself under a different name and taking the vehicle for a test drive and to his mechanic on Jan. 17 from Tri-State Ford in East Liverpool. He left the business and never returned the vehicle and stopped taking phone calls. The affidavit also said he possessed a fraudulent Ohio BMV document under the other name. Jaydin Isaiah ...

REAL ESTATE

Columbiana Zachary Gaydos et al to Thomas Patterson and Emily Hubbard, home on East Park Avenue; $300,000 East Liverpool Justin and Deidre Buck to Dylan Czech, home on Crestview Drive; $164,500 East Palestine Gorby’s Holdings III LLC to Christopher D. Durick, home on Wood Street; $104,500 Elkrun Township Keith A. Bouscher to Danny W. Fowler (trustee), 9.84 acres on Roller Coaster Road; $62,000 Franklin Township Donnie and Lorina Weaver to David A. and Hillary N. Stanton, 80.497 agricultural vacant land on Emerick Road; $662,722. Salem YMG Inc to Jill Alberson, home on ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Steve E. Johnson, 40, South Lincoln Avenue, Salem, were bound over to the county grand jury for second-degree felony burglary and misdemeanors of criminal damaging and menacing for allegedly walking into another man’s residence in Salem on Jan. 3, screaming at him and threatening to beat him up. The other man was able to get him out of the house onto the front patio. The police affidavit said video footage allegedly showed the defendant being belligerent and knocking on the window of the residence. He was seen ...