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Today's Birthday June 12 Patti Gaffoli, Steubenville Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Booze-fueled: A Wellesley Avenue woman said she and her husband were arguing and he hit her Wednesday. She said he was intoxicated and when she went upstairs to bed he followed her, “grabbed her by the arms and threw her off the bed.” Her husband said they’d been arguing over religion and when he walked upstairs to use the restroom, she started “attacking” him so he “threw her on the bed and held her until she calmed down.” Police said he had bloody scratches on his arm and his ...

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POLICE BEAT STEUBENVILLE POLICE Swinger: A Sinclair Avenue resident told police she had argued with a male Wednesday and “hit him with a bat” as he was leaving and does not want him to return. Police located the man, who originally gave them a fictitious name but eventually admitted he did it because he knew a warrant had been issued in Colorado for his arrest. He was not interested in filing charges against the woman who hit him with the bat but did want it known he “intended to turn himself in.” Police said Kareem Bagley, 43, Denver, was booked into the county jail without ...

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Birthday June 10 Dave Brockway, Wintersville Police Steubenville Police Con job: A Sinclair Avenue resident told police Sunday she’d let a male she “doesn’t know much about” stay with her for a few days and allowed him to take her car to an interview at a business on S. 4th Street, but he never brought it back. She said she found out something was wrong when a friend called her “wondering why she was driving down Adams Street” when he was supposed to be at the job interview, so she called the store to ask if he’d interviewed with them and was advised he had not. She ...

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Birthdays June 8 Casey Hanlin, Wintersville June 9 Eric Stoddart, Mingo Junction Ryan Shoulders, Wintersville Larry Gareis, Weirton Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Match game: A resident said his neighbor “set some bushes on fire” Friday in the 400 block of Maxwell Avenue. He said she’d come on his property a few hours before “and accused him of causing Child Protective Services to take her child from her.” The caller had video of the woman walking to her house “after the set the fire and it appeared she was holding some type of container.” Police said the ...

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Birthday June 7 Sophia Zanieski, Weirton Police Beat Steubenville Police Updated: The dog that had been locked on a small ledge outside a second-story bedroom in the 1200 block of State Street Wednesday was removed from the property due to the puppy’s condition, the extreme circumstances in which police found it and the owner’s detachment. The report in Friday’s paper inadvertently omitted information during the production process and didn’t include how police resolved the incident. Lucky day: A burglary in progress was reported in the 400 block of S. 5th Street ...

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Today's birthday June 5 Tim Eddy, Mingo Junction Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Inhumane: Police confiscated a small puppy “whining, scared and pressed up against a window … on a roof with a very small ledge” in the 1200 block of State Street Wednesday. A concerned citizen told police the puppy had been stranded on the roof for more than 45 minutes. There was a light on in a second-story bedroom, but no one would come to the door and then the light “apparently went off,” so the fire department was called to rescue the puppy. As firefighters were trying to get the dog ...