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St. Clair Township — Officers were sent to Echo Dell Trailer Park on March 11 in response to a male making statements about harming himself. The male told officers he never made those comments and was trying to sleep for work the next morning. The female who made the call reporting his comments and he were apparently arguing at the time. — A driver was released with a warning for no taillights following a March 11 traffic stop on St. Clair Avenue. — Officers investigating an alarm at a Calcutta Smith Ferry Road location on March 11 found the location to be secure. — Mason ...

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Court News LISBON — A Columbiana man accused of possessing images of child pornography was ordered evaluated again for current competency and sanity at the time of the offenses. Richard Braham, 27, West Park Avenue, had previously been found competent and without serious mental issues in the fall, but his defense attorney Charley Kidder requested another evaluation last month. Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam ordered the evaluations be done by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio and set a new status hearing for April 16. A trial date of Feb. 13 ...

POLICE

East Liverpool — An officer searched the area of West Fifth Street on March 11 for a semi-truck reported to be stuck under a bridge. — Officers investigated a complaint of the odor of crack cooking at Fawcett Apartments on March 11. — Jerimee Csonka, 47, address not provided, was arrested on an outstanding warrant during a March 11 traffic stop on West Fifth Street. — Wendell Powell, 46, address not provided, was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence and issued a citation for one headlight during a March 11 traffic stop on state Route 11. According to the ...

THE COURTS

LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, charges of engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools were dismissed against Olusegun G. Atoyebi, 40, last known address listed as Clive, Iowa, who’s in federal custody on an alleged immigration-related federal offense. Atoyebi had been accused of allegedly responding to an undercover ad placed by a Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force agent on a known prostitution website and arranging for sexual activity with a woman in exchange for $100, then arrived in East Palestine on Nov. 30, 2025 for the meeting with the phone ...

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Sheriff Reports — Deputies at 11:52 a.m. Sunday provided mutual aid to the Ohio State Highway Patrol regarding a vehicle that crashed and was blocking Old Irondale Road in Yellow Creek Township. The operator of the vehicle was reported as being combative and refusing to exit the vehicle. Anthony Powell, 34, Riverside Avenue, Wellsville, was later charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and fourth-degree felony assault on a peace officer. He was also cited for reasonable control and no seat belt. — The cleaning staff from Minerva Welding, U.S. Route 30, West Township, reported ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a pretrial was set April 1 for Donald Clair Nesselrode, 59, Smithfield Street, East Liverpool, charged with domestic violence for allegedly striking a woman in the ribs with a closed fist three times in East Liverpool on March 23. A pretrial was set March 30 for Bryan Douglas Adams, 41, Columbus, charged with theft and assault for allegedly punching a woman in the face and taking her phone on March 8 in Wellsville. Skyiler Russell Crowe, 18, East Clark Street, East Palestine, was fined $750 and given a suspended 90-day jail ...