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POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — Dispatch received a call at 12:45 a.m. Friday from a resident in the village of Minerva regarding a large explosion they heard south of their residence on East Lincoln Way. The caller said Minerva Police advised the sound was likely from a fracking well pad in Columbiana County, however off of Major Road NE in Carroll County. A deputy checked the area without hearing any further explosions. Contact was made at the Norris Well Pad and the foreman advised they did not have or hear any explosions from their pad. The foreman explained that if it was from the pad, ...

REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Courtney Rae Chaplow et al to Christopher and Bobbie Harrison, home on Slater Road; $461,500 Jeremy D. and Kristina J. Yoder to Jared W. Weaver et al, home on Shoemaker Road; $72,500 Charles J. and Krista L. Dawson to Scott B. Rockwell, home on Buck Road; $260,000 Jodine M. Karmazin to Benjamin D. Troyer, home on state Route 9; $220,000 Columbiana Warren Ford II et al to Judith L. Dexter, home on Edgewood Drive; $285,000 East Liverpool Janeen M. Patrisko to Kristin R. Youst, home on Hill Boulevard; $140,000 DA Management LLC to Jethro Properties LLC, home ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, Thomas J. Panek, 58, Atwater, was fined $750 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 85 days suspended and credit for one day served, leaving a balance of four days to serve in jail after a jury found him guilty this week of engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. He was ordered to complete 30 hours community service and a prostitution prevention course. Panek was accused of requesting sexual conduct for an agreed upon price of $140 from an undercover agent with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force, ...

POLICE

Liverpool Township – Tasia Jordan, age and address not provided, was issued a citation for a going through a red light in a school zone following an Oct. 3 traffic stop on Lisbon Street. – Officers accompanied a sheriff deputy to an Anderson Boulevard residence on Oct. 3 after they received multiple reports of a person with a warrant at that location. Robert Westlake, age and address not provided, was taken into custody on a felony warrant for child support. Officers were also asked to accompany the sheriff deputy to another residence on Park Avenue to check for another person ...

Courts

Common Pleas New Cases Daniel A. Meade, Lisbon Road, Salem, vs. Jennifer M. Meade, Jersey Ridge Road, Salem; divorce sought. Anthony Imburgia, Austintown, and Meghan Imburgia, Youngstown; dissolution sought. Robin M. Clutter, Camelot Drive, Columbiana, and Jeffrey K. Clutter, Westfield Road, East Liverpool; dissolution sought. Jerrad Rydarowicz, Fork Road, Leetonia, vs. Sarah Rydarowicz, Newgarden Avenue, Salem; divorce sought. Zachary D. Foster, Y & O Road, Wellsville, vs. Dominica J. Foster, Y & O Road, Wellsville; divorce sought. Velocity Investments, LLC, Wall, N.J., ...

Police

Sheriff’s Office — An Alliance man reported at 6:40 p.m. Wednesday that four cemetery brass vases were missing from his father, brother, aunt and grandmother’s graves at Highland Memorial Park Cemetery, South 12th Street, Knox Township. The sheriff’s office has received at least two or more other calls related to thefts from graves at the cemetery this month. — A man on Bell Road, Elkrun Township asked for a report to be on file at 6:26 p.m. Tuesday that a person from Center Township was not to be on his property per a court order from Juvenile Court. He was advised to ...