Police reports
Brooke County Sheriff
Charged: Anthony B. Stoneking, 23, 40 Overlook Terrace, Colliers, possession of a controlled substance and improper registration, Friday.
Charged; Christopher J. Stevens, 23, 3138 Orchard St., Weirton, obstructing an officer and driving while suspended, Friday.
Charged: Richard L. Brown, 46, 317 South 17th St., Weirton, possession of a controlled substance, Friday.
Charged: Erica D. Merckle, 19, 46 Clipper St., Wellsburg, domestic battery, Sunday.
Charged: Ashley Nickoles, 34, 160 Mahan Road, Weirton, driving while suspended for driving under the influence, Monday.
Charged: Bernard E. Crawford, 77, 1426 Genteel Ridge Road, Wellsburg, domestic battery, Monday.
Jefferson County Sheriff
Friends without benefits: A caller reported hearing a disturbance at a home in Wintersville and said the male had already walked away, Saturday. Deputies said the woman was “visibly upset and crying” when they arrived at the residence, with two small holes in her leggings and her tank top strap and bra straps ripped. She said she and the male had previously dated “but now they are only in it for sexual benefits and use illicit drugs together.” She said she’d asked the man to leave but he refused, assaulting her and trashing her home. She said she fought back, punching and kicking him. Deputies said the man, located not far away, was agitated when they stopped him, saying things like “get on about your business” and “I was doing fine until you showed up” and refusing to give them his ID or let them pat him down for weapons. He eventually said he “did nothing wrong and removed himself from the domestic situation,” claiming he and his girlfriend were breaking up and she punched him in the face. Deputies said he did have some blood on the inside of his lip. He admitted breaking a vase, but said she jumped on him and they fell on a futon, breaking it.
Petty cash: A Yorkville couple was fighting over $3 missing from a dresser, Monday. A “lot of yelling and screaming” was heard in the background, but both parties had left the scene before deputies arrived. The male said he “does not (expletive) with police” and said “nothing happened so he does not need to speak with (them),” deputies said. The fight took place in front of a child who wanted to leave the room, but her mother wouldn’t let her.
Problem ex: An Adena resident spotted three men walking around her house, then peering into her car bfore piling into a vehicle and fleeing, Monday. She said after they left, she got a threatening text from her ex. She said they broke up in November and hadn’t talked since. She has surveillance video of the trio.
Family friction: A Wintersville man said a family member is threatening him, his wife and children because he wants his mother’s ashes, Sunday. He said the family member, a cousin, told him he won’t rest until he gets her ashes and said he’ll start harming them if they aren’t returned. The Wintersville man said he doesn’t have them.
Backfired: A Wintersville man ended up in custody after he called deputies to his house to calm a disagreement with another man, Saturday. Michael Cain, 56, 114 township Road 167, was booked into jail on a warrant for failure to appear out of Meigs County, deputies said. Cain and another man were arguing about “random” items he’d let the other man leave on his property that he now wants removed, including a boat, several tractors and a broken-down truck. He said the man showed up at his house but refused to take all his belongings, leaving him with “his junk and trash.” When he confronted him, they argued, so he called deputies before it escalated, but while talking to him deputies discovered the warrant.
Denial: A man overdosed in Smithfield, Sunday. Deputies said he was responsive when they arrived but combative toward paramedics, who said he’d been unresponsive, so they administered 4 grams of Narcan to revive him. He denied using drugs and insisted the Narcan “did not wake me up” and wanted to be left alone so he could go back to sleep. The person who’d used the man’s cell to call 911 had left the house, so after he signed his refusal to be transported, they left him.
Booked: Jennifer McCall, 35, 128 Shirley Circle, Steubenville, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Saturday. McCall allegedly had 6 grams of a substance believed to be methamphetamine in her possession during a traffic stop. A pipe also was found in the car, deputies said.
Trashy type: A Steubenville man who owns property at the marina in Costonia told deputies he saw someone trying to dump trash on his property, Friday. He gave them the license number.
Booked: James Christopher Pruitt, 32, 129 Reichart Ave., Apt. 4, Wintersville, intimidation and domestic violence, Saturday. Deputies said Pruitt was argumentative, and allegedly threatened his former girlfriend when he saw her; Alexis Freeman, 42, Wintersville, domestic violence (pending), Saturday.
Steubenville Police
Short fuse: A man who was upset because he thought his girlfriend should be released from a nursing home and wasn’t was ordered to leave the property after he threatened to blow the building up, Monday. Police said the man was in the parking lot with binoculars watching the building when they arrived, but when they searched him, he had no weapons or explosive devices in his possession. He admitted directing profane language to the staff but denied threatening to blow the building up. Staff members were concerned for the safety of other patients as well as themselves, and managers wanted the man to leave the property and never return but they stopped short of filing charges.
Kids play: A North Fifth Street resident said he’s having trouble with neighbor kids playing on his property and damaging boarded-up windows, Monday. He said he’s spoken to their mother in the past, so police explained what was going on and she had her kids move two bicycles and a basketball hoop from the man’s property.
Stuck him: A Wellesley Avenue resident wanted a family member removed from his property, saying the younger man was “driving erratically and causing a disturbance,” Monday. He said the younger man and his girlfriend were there to drop their child off and became confrontational. The younger man was sitting on a neighbor’s porch with his girlfriend, who said they were fighting over a phone, and he tried to grab it from her hands. She denied a physical altercation, but the younger man had blood stains on his pants leg. He said they brought their child to the residence so he could go to the hospital and showed them a two-inch wound. He told them the disagreement took place in Weirton, and said the female also scratched his neck and back. He said she stabbed his leg, and police also spotted scratch marks on his back.
Making noise: Callers reported someone in the 1200 block of University Boulevard using a megaphone to threaten others, Monday. Police couldn’t find the culprit.
Ongoing problem: Two employees of a mental health service reported being threatened over the weekend, Monday. Both received messages from the same man.