Steubenville Police

Missing pants: Employees at the downtown Speedway said a man “was inside the store in his underwear and causing a disturbance,” Sunday. Police said the man was sitting on the wall behind the old bank in the 200 block of North Fourth Street when they arrived and said he told them “he woke up and could not find his pants.” He ducked questions about where he was staying when he lost them but did admit he lives in Mingo Junction. Police gave him a ride home and told him they don’t want him on the Speedway property again.

Have it your way: An Oregon Avenue resident wanted her parents removed from her residence, Friday. Her parents said she’d dropped out of school and has been hanging around with disreputable persons and had admitted using illegal substances with them the night before. They said she’d made some “concerning statements” when they spoke with her earlier in the day so they made the nearly seven-hour drive to Steubenville to check on her, but when they arrived she “became hostile towards them.” The daughter admitted to police she had been drinking heavily and used drugs overnight but refused to tell them what drug it was but said she “couldn’t recall what, exactly, she had said” that had upset her parents. She refused all offers of help and “demand(ed) that her parents be forced to leave.” Her parents told police the car she was driving belonged to them, was registered to them and insured by them and, because she was drinking and using drugs, they were not willing to leave it with her. Their daughter refused to give her parents the keys until police told them they could have it towed.

Causing problems: A caller reported an argument in a parking lot in the 800 block of North Sixth Street, Saturday. Police said a woman told them her sister had been causing problems in the American Legion “due to her intoxicated state” and walked her down the street to wait for a ride.

Cooling off: Police checked on a woman in the 700 block of Market Street who appeared to be “undressing herself,” Saturday. Police said she told them she was hot so she was walking in her sports bra. She said she didn’t need medical attention.

Police spotted two people trying to climb through a broken window at a South Street residence, Saturday. The female claimed the home belonged to her dead aunt and that she had permission to be there, but police said the home was “clearly abandoned and did not have running water or electricity.” Police made them leave.

A driver was cited and her passenger arrested after a traffic stop on Lawson Avenue at State Street, Sunday. Police said the passenger, George Moore, 52, 1430 Ridge Ave., Apt. 2, Steubenville, was charged with possession of drugs and possession of a controlled substance after they allegedly found a plastic bag containing a rock-like substance believed to be methamphetamine and another with orange pills believed to be Xanax on the passenger seat. The driver, Misty Rice, 44, 1304 Park St., was cited for fictitious plates.

An Alexander Manor West resident was concerned that people driving a white truck were outside his home with flashlights and hiding in bushes, Sunday. Police located AEP crews “standing in the roadway with flashlights.” They told police they were near the bushes looking for house numbers.

Broken: A Union Avenue resident said she returned home to find a hole in her front window and a rock in her living room, Thursday. She said when she left her residence earlier in the day, a man known to her and police was sitting on her front steps and they exchanged words before he left on foot. She said she’s had issues with the man before and asked police to tell him not to return to her property. The man told police he’d gone there to use the phone because of an emergency.

McKinley Avenue residents were fighting over their property line, Saturday. Police inspected the same maps given to each couple and said they were able to discern the property lines that had been staked, but one of the couples “did not think that the lines were correct” and contacted the surveyor, who told her the same thing but the couple was unwilling to accept that. Police told them to have the property surveyed again.

A man flagged police down to say he thought he’d found a black pull-behind trailer stolen from him three years ago in Philadelphia parked at Hollywood Plaza, Sunday. He had no documentation for his stolen trailer, and the one he’d seen had no plates or VIN.

A Euclid Avenue resident told police his daughter doesn’t live with him and was refusing to leave his house, Saturday. The daughter told police several of the bills are in her name and when her father didn’t deny it, they told him he’d have to have her evicted.

A North Sixth Street resident said someone damaged her car, Saturday. Police said there was a scratch across the hood of the vehicle.

Booked: Wade Louis Manns Jr., 30, 631 Buena Vista Blvd., Steubenville, bench warrant (probation violation), Friday.

Served: Jorge Ruiz Hernandez, 32, Elizabeth, N.J., theft, Saturday. Employees at Walmart allege Hernandez skip-scanned merchandise.

Code issues: Notices of violation were sent to the owner/occupant of a property at 131 Buena Vista Blvd., high grass/weeds, overgrowth encroaching on neighboring property, construction materials and junk items in rear.

Cited: Amanda J. Oxley, 35, 601 Two Ridge Road, Apt. G7, Wintersville, operating a motor vehicle without a license and assured clear distance ahead after a two-vehicle fender-bender Thursday in the 4000 block of Sunset Boulevard; Mitchell Eakle, 35, 4330 Maxwell Ave., Steubenville, driving under suspension and no headlights.

Served: Shannon M. Beier, 45, 1329 W. Adams St., Steubenville, failure to appear, Thursday.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Argument: A Smithfield resident told deputies he and his girlfriend were fighting and he wanted her to leave his home, Aug. 13. The girlfriend said he was upset because she’d been late picking him up. She said it never turned physical though he did throw her medication out in the yard.

Bratty behavior: An Irondale man said two 15-year-olds were riding their side-by-side up and down the street, “yelling and harassing him and (a family member)” while they cut grass at the fire station.

Booked: Allen Michael Brodess, 36, 1870 state Route 151, Mingo Junction, probation violation, violation of a protection order and aggravated menacing, Aug. 13.