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Common Pleas New Cases David L. Gentry, Coffee School Road, Salem, vs. Leah M. Gentry, unknown address, Washingtonville; divorce sought. U.S. Bank National Association, Independence, vs. Timothy L. Pancake, Pancake Clarkson Road, Rogers; collection sought of alleged $2,589 debt. William Martig, Boardman, vs. City of Salem, South Broadway Avenue, Salem, and Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Columbus; refiling of appeal of claim denial. Lionel Crissman, Warren, vs. Ricoh USA, Parsippany, N.J., and Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Columbus; appeal of claim ...

POLICE

Sheriff Reports — A deputy responded at 5:36 p.m. Sunday to Laughlin Road, Wayne Township for an alarm drop and found all doors and windows of the residence secure. — A medical was reported at 4:05 p.m. Sept. 18 in the area of state Route 164, Center Township, with a deputy providing medical aid until EMS arrived on the scene and took over. EMS advised the person needed Life Flight and the deputy led EMS to the landing zone where Life Flight landed and took the person to a hospital. — An assault was reported at 3:45 a.m. Sept. 18 on West Street, Salineville. Deputies could ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — Ashley M. Shuman, 43, Alba Avenue, Chester, was fined $400 and sentenced to 140 days in jail with 138 suspended, two years of probation and 50 hours of community service for possession of a drug abuse instrument, and drug paraphernalia recently in Columbiana County Municipal Court. Shuman lived at a Broomfield Avenue residence which was the location of a brief police standoff between Greg Dailey and the St. Clair Police Department on June 26. Upon entry, officers found used syringes and glass meth pipes. On June 29, Shuman was found in possession of a ...

POLICE

Highway Patrol — Amir Desellem, of Hull Road in Salineville, was cited at 2:47 p.m. Sept. 16 for a right of way violation in Washington Township, after allegedly failing to yield while exiting a private driveway and striking a vehicle driven by Makayla Bradley, of Hammondsville, as it traveled westbound on state Route 39. — Jay Harrell, of Mishawka, Indiana, was cited at 1:40 p.m. Sept. 16 in Elkrun Township for failure to control, after a trailer he was pulling on his vehicle fishtailed and forced him off the south side of state Route 154 into a ditch. — Emily Stone, of ...

Real Estate

Butler Township Martha A. Stephen to Gary Eichler, home on state Route 9; $147,500 Joseph Michael Kurtz et al to Peter Fountain, 27.76 acre farm on Buck Road; $3,836 Center Township Joel Long to Eric Simon, home on state Route 164; $130,000 Michaela M. and Christi London to Adam Koslik, home on Eric Drive; $240,000 Columbiana Jeffrey S. Sloan to Marian Caroline Kochin, home on North Middle Street; $270,000 Robert E. McLaughlin to JL Contracting & Remodeling LLC, home on Sunset Court and other residential structures on West Street; $121,000 Linda L. Martinez (successor) to ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial was set Sept. 23 for Jonathan David Messenger, 31, West Street, Salineville, charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, third-degree felony intimidation and misdemeanor aggravated menacing for allegedly hitting a woman in the back of the head with a metal baseball bat at least three times and in her hand when she raised it to protect herself on Sept. 18 in Salineville, then threatening to kill her if she called police and making jokes about killing her while transporting her to the ...