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THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Mberwa Murjani Mberwa, 23, 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. He was accused of allegedly responding to an undercover ad on a known prostitution website of an adult mother trafficking her minor daughter and arranging for sexual activity with both females in exchange for $100, then arriving in East Palestine on Oct. 24 for the meeting with the phone used to ...

POLICE

Sheriff Reports — A deputy assisted with traffic control at 5:26 p.m. Saturday at the scene of a multiple-vehicle accident at state Route 45 and Georgetown Road in Perry Township. — A deputy was dispatched at 9:51 p.m. Friday to Mill Street, Salineville for a property report, with Brandi Jo Glover, Mill Street, Salineville charged with criminal mischief, the sheriff’s report said. — Killian P. McHenry, 21, North Market Street, Lisbon, called dispatch at 6:48 p.m. Friday and advised he had an active warrant out of Columbiana County and needed picked up and taken to jail. He ...

Calendar

TUE/1-6 Chester Brooke Hancock Food Security Team, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 600 Indiana Ave.; schedule appointment at 304-748-7850 Ext. 1002 Columbiana City council, 7 p.m., city hall East Liverpool Needles and Hooks (crochet and knitting group), noon-2 p.m., Carnegie Public Library Community Room East Palestine East Palestine Library, Storytime, 11 a.m.; First Chapter Book Club, 4 p.m.; Board of Trustees, 6 p.m. Eagles kitchen open 4-8 p.m., Swiss steak with parsley potatoes and vegetable; $9; 330-886-0397 Knox Township No trustees meeting Leetonia Knit Wits Knitting Friends, ...

REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Mark D. and Duane A. Lynn to Griffin Ray Bardo, home on Shelton Road; $150,000 Joseph K. Crowe to Vitaliy Kovalevych et al, home on Terraho Drive; $393,500 Columbiana Mathew and Victoria Rhodes to Aaron A. Tyger, home on West Friend Street; $188,500 East Liverpool Trevor Rentals LLC to Eric McFarland, home on Blakeley Street; $30,400 Larry M. Davis to Ryan S. Turner, home on Holliday Street; $15,000 East Palestine JB&D Holdings LTD to Justin Moffatt, home on Park Avenue and other residential structures on South Street; $193,000 Melanie Davis to Frank ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set Jan. 7 for Dale Kenneth Lefebvre, 55, Wells Hollow Road, Wellsville, charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, for allegedly grabbing a woman and throwing her at a coffee table after an argument, causing a deep cut to her forehead when her head hit the corner of the table on Jan. 1 in Yellow Creek Township. A preliminary hearing was set Jan. 7 for Robert J. McLaughlin Jr., 65, Lincoln Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with fourth-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly shoving a ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A deputy at 3:13 p.m. Thursday attempted to call a person regarding a reported sex offense, but both times the deputy called, the number was advised as disconnected. The address on the report was Winona Road, Butler Township. — Deputies responded at 10:44 p.m. Wednesday for a shooting complaint on Bayard Road, West Township, with no details as to what happened on the report. Deputies spoke to both parties involved and advised them how to proceed. Deputies were then called back to the same address for an alleged assault. David Scott Lyon, 64, Bayard Road, ...