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THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON—In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a Lisbon man was sentenced to jail for threatening officers while being released from an OVI charge. Seth Johnson, 35, Guy Road, Lisbon, was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 150 days suspended, two years of probation, 40 hours of community service, and fined $1,415 for menacing amended from aggravated menacing, OVI and reasonable control for threatening officers while being released for an OVI charge in the Lisbon Police Department parking lot on Sept. 24. Jeffrey Laroche, 56, East March Street, East Palestine, was ...

POLICE

Chester — Marlena James, of East Liverpool, was arrested on charges of DUI and Driving While License Suspended. — Ronnie Colvin Jr., of Salem, was arrested on a charge of DUI. — Michael Selester, of Chester, was arrested on charges of neglect, creating a risk of injury or death, and animal cruelty. — Betty Salerno, of New Cumberland, was cited for charges of striking an unattended vehicle and no insurance. — Emma Guterman, of Oregon, Ohio, was cited for destruction of property. — Conner McCoy, of Chester, was cited for charges of shoplifting and contributing ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case against Zachary Edward Perry, 30, Dresden Avenue, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury for felonious assault, a second-degree felony, and fourth-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly throwing chicken wings at the wall, grabbing a steak knife and pointing it at another man and making a lunging motion toward him on Jan. 3 in East Liverpool. The police affidavit said the victim grabbed the knife in self-defense, then the defendant allegedly grabbed a solid glass world globe and threw it at the ...

REAL ESTATE

Columbiana EAS Mangement of the Valley to Shelly Logan, home on North Pearl Street; $182,000 Yankee Holdings LTD to Sonny Rose Investments Company, home on South Cross Street and three-family dwelling on Union Street; $350,000 East Liverpool Chase K. Klein to John Eric Bay, home on St. Clair Avenue; $110,000 First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. to Patrick and Carrie King, full service bank and parking garage on Broadway; $132,000 NCST Owner LLC to NATS Real Estate Inc., other commercial structures and commercial vacant land on Fifth Street (former New Castle School of Trades ...

POLICE

East Liverpool – A driver with an expired temporary tag was given a verbal warning following a Dec. 27 traffic stop on St. Clair Avenue. – A driver with only one headlight was issued a verbal warning following a Jan. 27 traffic stop on St. Clair Avenue. – An Officer advised a male to stop panhandling and to leave the apartments where he was panhandling on Sixth Street on Dec. 27. – Officers told a female at an Odgen Street residence that she would need to start eviction proceedings to get her boyfriend out of the residence if she didn’t want him there due to his name ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Jan. 14 for Preston Lamar English, 32, Densmore Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with first-degree felonies of aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery, fifth-degree felony having weapons while under disability and two counts of misdemeanor aggravated menacing. English was accused of allegedly climbing through the window of an East Liverpool residence on Dec. 9, 2025, brandishing a firearm toward a man and woman, making several threats while pointing the firearm toward them and taking ...