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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 ...

THE COURTS

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 ...

THE COURTS

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 ...

POLICE

Sheriff Reports — A juvenile-related report was taken at 5:07 p.m. Thursday on Depot Street, Rogers. — A man on Morris Road, Elkrun Township reported at 4:06 p.m. Thursday that he wa living on another man’s property and was served with an eviction notice from the property owner to leave the property. The eviction process was explained to him. — A deputy at 3:47 p.m. Thursday assisted the Columbiana County Dog Warden at a residence on Speidel Road, Hanover Township, due to a man’s dogs leaving his propery and going to the neighbor’s property and killing 20 ...

THE COURTS

Court News LISBON —A New Waterford man accused of allegedly assaulting a woman who has a protection against him and threatening to assault another person was ordered evaluated for competency and sanity. Dorian T. Lowrey, 51, Hawkins Road, recently appeared for arraignment and entered a not guilty plea to third-degree felony domestic violence, two counts of fifth-degree violation of a protection order and misdemeanors of aggravated menacing and criminal trespass. He also entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity with his his attorney Ron Yarwood requesting the ...