Steubenville Police

Shenanigans: A caller reported seeing a couple “allegedly engaged in illegal activity” behind a box truck in the 200 block of N. 4th Street, Tuesday. Police said the two weren’t engaged in anything illegal when they arrived at the scene and after identifying them they told the couple to move along.

Prowling: Two suspicious males were reported in the 400 block of Henry Avenue, Tuesday. The caller said the men were “lurking outside” a home, but police checked the area and said they did not see anyone and when they checked the residence it was secure.

On video: Police received surveillance footage of several recent thefts at Kroger, Tuesday.

*Two women loaded large bags of pet food into a cart and left Kroger without paying for it April 4. The pair fled in what appeared to be a grey Ford, police said. The stolen merchandise totaled $120, employees said.

*A woman fled Kroger with $250 in merchandise she didn’t try to pay for, April 5. When the wheels of the cart locked up, police said she moved the stolen merchandise to another cart before leaving.

*A man fled Kroger in a white Honda Ridgeline without paying for $100 in merchandise, March 19. Police said the cart wheels locked up but he dragged it past the camera.

Cleaning up: Police were advised two women had been arguing at the Laundry Mat, Tuesday. The caller said she needed to load her clean clothes into her car and wanted police there to make sure there wouldn’t be more problems. Police also spoke with the other woman, who was in her car in the parking lot, and said she told them she didn’t know the caller. They didn’t say what caused the dispute but police said there were no more problems.

Drugs: An unresponsive woman was reported in the 700 block of Market Street, Wednesday. Police said the woman was laying on the sidewalk and another woman who was attempting a sternum rub said she’d already given her a dose of Narcan. Police said the woman on the sidewalk was unresponsive but was “shallow snoring,” so they administered another dose of Narcan and performed more sternum rubs. The Narcan revived her and she told them she’d used fentanyl. Police located a used hypodermic in her jacket “as well as a burnt crack pipe (and) multiple broken pills.”

Summoned: Kristin Williams, 35, 1221 Oregon Ave., Steubenville, theft, Wednesday.

Booked: Ashley Nelson, 34, no fixed address, failure to appear theft warrant, Tuesday; Marc Bell, 39, 403 Union Ave., Steubenville, warrant for failure to appear, Wednesday.

Detained: Charles Sandy, 45, 8267 State Route 646, Bloomingdale, failure to appear (Columbiana County), Tuesday. Sandy also was cited for expired plates

Code issues: Notices of violation were sent to owners/occupants of properties at 281 Cunningham Lane, 279 Cunningham Lane, 221 Cunningham Lane, 140 Keagler Drive, and 390 Scenic Drive, all for high grass.

Cited: Matthew I. Federoff, 56, 617 Lawson Ave., Steubenville, stopping for school bus.

Jefferson County Sheriff

Punching bag: A man said his mother “showed up there beat up,” Tuesday. Deputies said the woman told them she’d gone to the residence to get her belongings because her marriage was over, but her soon-to-be ex-husband arrived and started arguing with her when he realized she was walking out. She said he told her she wasn’t leaving and threw a folding chair that hit her so she threw it back at him, deputies said, then he threw a toilet chair at her, forced her to the ground and started punching her in the face and said when he hit her, it felt like “how a boxer punches.” Deputies said she had visible injuries, including lumps and a black eye. Another woman who was in the residence said she thought she heard them arguing about money and then “thought she heard him say she couldn’t leave.” She also said the male appeared to have a busted lip. The husband returned to the residence when deputies said they had questions and admitted they’d argued “over money she took from their account” and because she was leaving. He claimed his wife hit him first after he threw a toilet chair that got tangled under his feet, and told deputies she “walked up and punched him once so he defended himself.”

Anger issues: A Jefferson County woman “became very upset and started yelling” when she was questioned by a caseworker about a report she’d hit one of her children and left the child with a concussion, April 7. She was asked where the children could stay because they weren’t going to be coming back to the house deputies said she “slammed the door and started yelling she was getting an attorney” before they left the residence.

No boundaries: A Richmond area resident said a man who “lives in a shack across the street from her” followed her into her house and wouldn’t leave, Tuesday. She said she’d been away and got a notification from her security camera and when she checked, saw the man entering her home “several times” while they weren’t there and said the last time it looked like he’d helped himself to “something like a soda.” When they returned home, she said he followed her into the house and when her father told him to leave she said the man told her father “he was going to get a gun and shoot him.” She said the intruder’s father told her after a previous incident his son moved into the shed after he banned him from his house “because he is the way he is.” The intruder’s father was upset with deputies being called in because his son “has mental health issues and a narcotics addiction: and needs help, and when deputies told him he’d let himself in someone else’s home and threatened an individual told them he goes in the woman’s house “to use the bathroom and get drinks because he is not allowed in his house.” The intruder denied being in the house or threatening her father.

Brawling: A caller said a man and woman were “in the middle of Wilson Avenue” fighting, Tuesday. Both were dressed in all black and the woman had her hair tied up in a bun, the caller said. He called back to report he “got them separated” and they left on foot. Deputies checked the area but didn’t find them.111

Upstairs downstairs: A Two Ridge Road resident, Wintersville, said her upstairs neighbor had been “pounding on the floor for a while,” April 12. She said the neighbor is “constantly pounding on the floors at all hours of the night, which makes it hard to sleep.” The building’s management offered to move her. The upstairs neighbor said she doesn’t pound on the floor, telling deputies what the caller heard may have been her dropping things like her phone on the floor. She said the woman on the lower level sends her text messages via TextNow suggesting she do something vulgar and other things and “bangs” on things. She said she’d shared the messages with building management and was told she could move, which she didn’t consider much of a solution.

Spaced out: A Richmond woman said neighbors are causing problems because she won’t let them use her parking space, April 12. She said a man and woman not known to her are upset because parking is limited and want to “use her spot as an extra parking space” but she said no. She said the couple has been “verbally disrespectful towards her” and that day someone had thrown a rock at her window.

Bottled up: A caller reported an injured woman in Mingo Junction, April 12. Deputies said when they asked the man at the residence how she was hurt he said “something about a water bottle” and advised it was only the two of them in the residence. They said the woman “was not happy with police and EMS presence” and when they asked her what happened she said only that she “got hit in the stomach with a water bottle and did not need police or EMS.” She said there was no physical altercation. Neither of them had any obvious injuries and deputies said they “seemed to not want our services.”

Stolen: A wood trailer was stolen from a business on State Route 43, East Springfield Township, April 12. He said he’d been clearing trees and cutting them up and noticed the trailer missing two weeks earlier but delayed reporting the theft in hopes whoever had it would return it.