Steubenville Police

Muddled: Someone reported a disturbance in the 300 block of Highland Avenue, Wednesday. A woman at the location told police she was trying to get some of her belongings out of the residence but her boyfriend had the keys to her car. The male agreed to let her get her things but claimed he’d been stabbed, though they said he “became uncooperative: when they asked him where he was stabbed. The female then told police she’d been “beat up” earlier, but police said when they tried to learn more “her story changed” and she told them nothing physical took place and he’d only “gotten in her face.”

Recurring problems: An agency in downtown Steubenville reported it is being targeted by vandals, Tuesday. An employee said she arrived at work Monday to find the front window broken and a brick inside, on the floor. She said she boarded that window up but the following morning she arrived at work and discovered the window next to it was broken.

Questions: Police were asked to remove squatters from a garage in the 700 block of North Fifth Street, Tuesday. No one was in the structure when police checked the property, but they said they did find several personal items inside.

Won’t stay away: A Railroad Avenue resident told police a woman has been violating a protection order, Tuesday. She said she heard knocking and when she checked, saw the woman on the neighbor’s porch and told her she was calling police so she left. Two other witnesses confirmed seeing her there in violation of the court order.

One cited, one arrested: A traffic stop led to a driver being cited for driving under suspension and his passenger landing in jail on drug charges, Tuesday. Police said John Roman, 38, 205 S. Fourth St., Apt. 5, admitted he didn’t have a valid license when they pulled him over on the Lawson Avenue underpass while his passenger, Thomas N. King Jr., 50, 801 Daniels St., Toronto, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on charges of possessing drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police allegedly found a white, crystal-like substance believed to be methamphetamine tucked in a cigarette pack King had been holding along with a meth pipe found in a brown leather bag. King admitted the bag was his but denied ownership of the pipe and insisted “someone else” had put the item in his cigarettes. Both men said a man seen leaning into the car and “handing off an unknown item” to King had approached them asking for drugs and then bought a cigarette.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Lofty goals: A Dillonvale woman said she thinks someone punched the tailgate of her vehicle, Wednesday. She told deputies the truck hasn’t run in three months and said she’d discovered the damage Tuesday but waited to report the damage “because she wanted to drink beer with a relative.”

Checked out: A Greenbrier County, W.Va., resident asked deputies to check on her 80-something father because she has not been able to contact him by phone in more than a week, Tuesday. Deputies spoke with the father, who advised he’s fine “and just doesn’t want to be bothered by his daughters (because) they are mad … he got married and they don’t approve of it.”

Tool time: A motorist driving on state Route 7 near the South Junction (state Route 213) told deputies he found two Stihl weed-eaters lying in the roadway, Tuesday. He said no one was in the area so he took them home and called the department to report his find in the event someone reports losing them.