Brooke County Sheriff

Charged: Margaret E. Ferrari, 57, 2223 state Route 213, Steubenville, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer and battery on a government employee, Friday.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Area 51: A woman walking on state Route 7 refused to identify herself until deputies detained her, Sept. 13. They said they explained to the woman it’s illegal to walk on the state road and when they asked for her ID, she told them she “operated under a different government” and gave them a fictitious name. When they asked her a second time she gave them the fictitious name again. Once they detained her, she gave them her real name.

Telling tales: A man trying to get a resident in the New Somerset area to give him a ride said he was “being chased by four guys due to him witnessing a murder,” Sunday. The homeowner said the man claimed involvement in a Wellsville murder and told him he was “the first guy arrested and wanted to clear his name,” and told deputies the stranger’s story “didn’t seem right” so he told him he’d been drinking and couldn’t get behind the wheel. Another homeowner told deputies he’d found the man in his hayfield and when he told him to stay out of it the man “wanted to argue that the state owns a 4-foot right-of-way” so he could be there.

Bad news: A Jefferson County man said his wife assaulted him, Saturday. Deputies who spoke with him said he was upset because his wife told him she didn’t want to be married to him anymore and in the course of packing her things to leave alleged she “grabbed his ponytail.” He had no visible injuries and refused to make a statement, telling deputies he “just wanted his wife back.”

Untraceable: A woman reported her boyfriend hit her and she was bleeding but her phone was turned off and they were unable to locate her, Sunday. Deputies said they attempted to trace her whereabouts without luck and also checked her last known location on county Road 23 but were unable to find her.

Big mistake: A woman who recently moved her family from California to Jefferson County said she’d allowed her ex-boyfriend to help her move even though she had a protection order against him, Thursday. She told deputies she couldn’t do the move herself and her car broke down on the way, and when they got to Jefferson County, he convinced her to let him “stay with her and sober up so they could start over,” but it hadn’t worked out. She said he started drinking again and was verbally abusive to her and her children, but she can’t lock him out because he’d helped her fix her property up and when he changed the locks, he’d kept a key.

Obnoxious: A Wintersville woman said her husband was intoxicated and accused her of taking his keys, Sunday. She said it hadn’t escalated beyond an argument though in the past he’s been physical with her and told deputies she just wanted him to leave. Her partner expressed his displeasure that law enforcement had come to his house but deputies pointed out that when you “stand outside and scream in the middle of the afternoon (the odds are good) someone is going to call.” They said his speech was slurred and he smelled of alcohol, and as he gathered his things so he could leave with a friend he found his keys under some clothes on the hood of his car. He told deputies his wife had likely hidden them there.

Bike caper: A Toronto area woman said her camera captured footage of a man pushing her white bicycle away, Saturday. Saline township officers reported seeing a man on state Route 213 pushing a white bike and said when he saw them, he left the bike behind and took off running. Deputies at the woman’s home checked the woman’s basement and discovered her bicycle was where it belonged, so they think the white bike the man abandoned was likely stolen.

Theft: Someone forced a door open at a business in the Jefferson County Industrial Park, Saturday. The thief grabbed a bag with about $100 in cash.

Disruptive: An Empire resident reported juveniles were “beating on (their) trailer,” Sunday. Police said juveniles they found “running around town” denied knocking on anyone’s trailer. They were turned over to an adult and warned to stay in for the night.

Trespassing: A Hammondsville caller reported about 20 side-by-sides “riding all over” the wildlife preserve as well as on some private properties, Saturday.

Sentimental journey: A .12-gauge shotgun and a blanket were reported missing from a Toronto area residence, Friday. The homeowner said he’d been away and didn’t realize someone had broken in until he found his cat outside and discovered a window had been propped open. He said the missing items had only sentimental value but feared someone had planned to return to take more.

Booked: Matthew Paul Hawken, 31, 1707 township Road 304, Toronto, warrant for retail theft (Chippewa Township, Pa.); Anthony Joseph DeAngelo, 37, 196 E. Main St, Salineville, probation violation, Thursday.

Cited: Kaelyn Marie Hayes, 239 Woodvue Lane, Wintersville, speeding.

Steubenville Police

Bad reaction: A church member said another man who accepted money after helping a woman to her car after church “became aggressive … and began making threats” when he told him if he was hungry or needed assistance “they had warm food in the basement of the church,” Sunday. The church member said the man who accepted the money told him he “had a gun and would handle whatever needed to be done” so he told him he “also had weapons and was unsure why he was escalating the matter.” The man who accepted the money told police he was walking to a gas station and cut across the church lot and “denied all of the (church member’s) claims and stated (he) was falsifying information.”

Safety risk: A caller was concerned that juveniles were going into a vacant residence at 412 Maxwell Ave., Sunday. Police said they spotted several kids walking from the general direction of the dilapidated building “and spoke with them about it.” They said they couldn’t enter the residence to make sure no one was inside “due to the fact that the porch leading to the rear door was in such disrepair that it was not safe to use.”

Blind rage: A woman who left her boyfriend’s North Seventh Street residence told police they’d argued, Sunday. Police told her she should stay away from his residence for the rest of the night. The boyfriend told police she’d left with a family member but before she did she had “destroyed the blinds on his front window.”

Stealth dumper: A resident in the 1200 block of Maryland Avenue showed police video of her neighbor putting his trash in her can, Sunday.

Theft reported: A Park Street resident said someone stole his bank card and made $550 in purchases he didn’t discover until he got his statement, Sunday

Served: Larry Gasbarro, 49, no fixed address, bench warrant (violating a protection order), Friday; Jamal E. Grace, 19, 1525 Plum St., Steubenville, warrant (municipal court), Saturday.

Charged: Nicole Oxley, 41, no fixed address, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia, Saturday. Police allegedly found a cigarette pack with cellophane packets containing a white rock-like substance and a white powder believed to be cocaine base and a glass pipe stuffed in another cigarette pack, both in Oxley’s purse. Prior to being booked into the county jail they report Oxley told them she had what she believed to be heroin and crack “stuff in the front of her pants in between her legs,” which she then removed.

Petty ex: Police were told family members wanted them to check on the welfare of a Euclid Avenue resident, Saturday. When they talked to the woman, she told them it was “likely arranged by her ex-husband, as he has done this several times in the past.” She said she did not need assistance.

Booked: Ryan Gooch, 33, no fixed address, obstructing official business and warrant for failure to appear, Sunday.

Cited: Shaleana Benson, 36, 311 Belleview Blvd., Steubenville, no operator’s license and no child restraints. Police reported finding a child “sitting on the rear floorboard of the vehicle due to there not being enough available seats for all of the passengers inside the vehicle;” Carvie Lynch, 37, 311 Cedar Ave., Steubenville, assured clear distance ahead and no operator’s license after he allegedly rear-ended another vehicle; Cassandra L. Palmer, 52,231 Christopher Ave., Steubenville, display of plates.