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East Liverpool — Officers searched the East End area for on Feb. 19 for two vehicles reported to be driving on Pennsylvania Avenue at a high rate of speed. — A male who came into the police station on Feb. 19 to file a fraud report was transferred to St. Clair Police Department since the incident happened in their jurisdiction. — A disoriented female who admitted to smoking methamphetamine after officers located her running out of the roads near Valley View Street with her legs, arms and face cut from running from the woods was transported to East Liverpool hospital on Feb. ...

THE COURTS

Common Pleas News Cases County Treasurer, Lisbon, vs. Bruce A. Maher, Westview Drive, Salem, et al.; delinquent property tax foreclosure sought for Westview Drive, Salem property. Tara Woods, Roselyn Avenue, Wellsville, vs. Terry Beabout, state Route 39, Salineville; divorce sought. Michael Monroe, Morgantown, W.Va. vs. Rian Harkins, Follansbee, W.Va.; damages sought for alleged negligence and personal injury claims from 2024 traffic crash. Docket Entries Amanda Asher vs. Christopher Asher; dissolution granted. County Treasurer vs. Samuel R. Shasteen, et al.; delinquent ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set March 11 for Devon Gage Lockhart, 23, West Ninth Street, East Liverpool, charged with fourth-degree felony receiving stolen property and misdemeanor discharge firearm. Also on March 11, he’s facing probable cause hearings for allegedly violating the terms of his probation for a 2023 case of criminal mischief and a 2023 case of theft. On March 3 during a traffic stop in East Liverpool, Lockhart was a passenger and a stolen firearm out of Akron was found under his seat. He allegedly took ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A man on Cream Ridge Road, Elkrun Township, reported at 8:08 p.m. Tuesday that unknown people are continuously pounding on his doors and windows at his residence. — A man on Foundry Hill Road, Franklin Township, reported at 5:44 p.m. Tuesday that he has emergency custody of his child and the mother was sending him harassing and threatening text messages. — Deputies were dispatched at 5:04 p.m. Tuesday to Center Avenue, Center Township, for a person making suicidal threats. EMT Ambulance transported the person to a hospital in Mahoning County.

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set March 16 for Cameron Allen Morris Davis, 26, Main Street, Wellsville, charged with fourth-degree felony failure to comply and misdemeanors of operating a vehicle impaired refusal with prior within 20 years, reckless operation and a stop sign violation. Davis was accused of allegedly failing to comply during an attempted traffic stop in East Liverpool on March 1, leading police on a chase and then stopping, being seen walking from the vehicle and then taken into custody. Joseph L. Moore, ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Grant Chidester, 31, Pittsburgh, Pa., were bound over to the county grand jury for third-degree felony compelling prostitution, fifth-degree felony possessing criminal tools and misdemeanor engaging in prostitution for allegedly responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website of an adult woman and a minor girl and arranging for sexual activity with both, including the minor, for $160, then traveling to East Palestine on Dec. 12 for the meeting with the phone used to make the arrangements in his ...