Brooke County Sheriff

Charged: Dustin A. Hill, 22, 623 Yankee St., Wellsburg, possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, Saturday.

Steubenville Police

Puffy pants: Employees at Kroger reported a man stuffing merchandise in his pants and leaving the store, Sunday. Police located the man walking on DiGregory Avenue and said “both sides of his pant legs *were) bulging.” When they asked him about the suspicious bulges, police said he “immediately stated ‘stealing from Kroger,'” and removed the merchandise from his pants. Benjamin D. Powell, 31, 732 N. Sixth St., Steubenville, was charged with petty theft and also served outstanding warrants from municipal court, petty theft, and a child neglect warrant out of Columbiana County, police said.

Family affair: Two mothers and their children spent the weekend bickering about a bicycle found by the railroad tracks, Friday. One of the mothers told police her son “found” the the day before and brought it home but the other boy “stole” it from her home. Police spotted the other boy on the bike but said when the child saw the cruiser he took off. On Saturday, police had to return because the mothers “were upset about (the) ongoing issue” over whose bike it is. Both boys are claiming it and it’s been “moved” from one property to the other “several times in the past few days, causing arguments among the children, the mother’s and other family members.” Both mothers were advised it’s not a police issue.

Warranted: A resident in the 1400 block of Ridge Avenue said her granddaughter took her car without her permission overnight and had not returned it, Sunday. The woman told police it happens frequently and she wanted to pursue charges. Several hours later police located the car behind the house, but a different female was in the back seat and when she saw officers immediately “ducked back down” to avoid being identified. Police said Ciara B. Hawkins, 28, 149 Lovers Lane, Steubenville ended up being booked into the Jefferson County jail on an unrelated warrant out of Common Pleas Court for failure to appear. They said Hawkins told them the granddaughter had gone into the residence and said she wasn’t aware she’d taken the car without permission. After the granddaughter and her grandmother both exited the house, the granddaughter insisted her grandmother knew she took the vehicle because she had the keys and said she didn’t have a phone to call her grandmother and tell her when she’d bring it back. After giving the keys back to her grandmother, police told them both if they caught the granddaughter driving the vehicle it was going to be towed “due to both (of them) acknowledging that (the granddaughter) does not possess a valid driver’s license” and advised grandma to talk to the prosecutor about charges. The grandmother asked police to make sure there were no drugs or drug paraphernalia in the car since, “she knows of multiple unknown individuals to have been inside of her vehicle and did not wish to have any of their belongings inside.” Police seized a glass crack pipe, 12 hypodermic needles, a burned spoon, and a burned bottle cap with a filter found in the vehicle.

Cited: Donald K. Shook, 38, 301 Carnegie Court, Toronto, defective/unsafe vehicle. Shook allegedly was spotted operating a vehicle with no rear window, no driver side front view mirror and a cracked/broken windshield, police reported. Also cited: Cameron Petteway, 35, 231 Hollywood Blvd., Steubenville, speeding; Norman Brown, 45, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Steubenville, driving under suspension.