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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Frederick E. Kruger, 34, last known addresses Shelby Road, Lisbon, and Wampum, Pa., were bound over to the county grand jury for felonious assault, a second-degree felony, third-degree felony strangulation and misdemeanors of aggravated menacing and two counts of domestic violence for an incident that occurred Oct. 4 in Center Township. He was accused of threatening to kill a woman and putting both hands around her neck and choking her and putting his fingers in her mouth as she gasped for air. He also was ...

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East Liverpool —After receiving a complaint on Oct. 29 that Joseph Mason was leaning on a pole appearing to be under the influence of something outside Nikki’s Market, Dresden Avenue, officers went to check on him. As officers were leaving the station, dispatch told them there was an active warrant for Mason out of the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office. When officers made contact with Mason who appeared physically fine, Mason, according to the police report, said “you ready” and that he knew he had a warrant and had been waiting on officers all day to come pick him up. ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Nov. 20 for Scott M. Haines, 51, state Route 164, Salineville, charged with felonious assault, a first-degree felony, third-degree felony failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer and misdemeanors of obstructing official business, aggravated menacing and criminal damaging. Haines was accused of allegedly running over a deputy’s foot after being stopped in the Spring Valley Road area, backing up and driving forward and turning toward the deputy while accelerating near ...

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Sheriff Reports — A deputy was dispatched at 9:51 p.m. Nov. 6 to state Route 172, West Township for a domestic violence report. — A deputy responded at 11:13 p.m. Nov. 5 to a Glasgow Road residence, Wayne Township, for a welfare check. The deputy made contact with the person in question and found everything in good order. — The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office called at 3:28 p.m. Wednesday to request a Columbiana County sheriff’s deputy make contact with a person on Lowmiller Road, West Township, due to the person being involved in a traffic accident in Carroll County and ...

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Court News LISBON —A Pennsylvania woman accused of possessing psilocyn, a psychedelic drug, during a traffic stop on Sept. 3, 2023 lost her attempt to have the evidence suppressed. Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton denied the motion to suppress filed by counsel for Melissa J. Hill, 54, Enon Valley, finding the search of her vehicle was proper. Hill was charged with aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, and tried to claim the search by a Columbiana police officer was unlawful. During the traffic stop, the officer saw an open container of ...

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Sheriff Reports —A deputy at 4:28 p.m. Tuesday investigated a report of a suspicious man in the woods near the federal prison, FCI Elkton, waving down cars as they passed by. Contact was made with the man on the rear porch area of a residence on Scroggs Road, Lisbon and he was identified as Terry Lee Banks of Minnesota. Banks, 49, was taken into custody on a charge of criminal trespass and booked into the Columbiana County jail, with other potential charges pending. Banks is scheduled to appear in Columbiana County Municipal Court today and was released from jail after bond was ...