Steubenville Police

Trading insults: A Lauretta Avenue couple was causing a disturbance, Thursday. The two of them “each accused the other of yelling at and insulting one another,” and their children said “all they heard was both of them yelling and insulting one another,” police said. The female left for the night.

Fibbed: Police were told someone was squatting inside a house downtown that is supposed to be vacant, Thursday. A woman admitted to police she has been staying there but claimed the owner “gave her permission before being incarcerated.” Police reminded the woman he’d had her evicted earlier in the year.

Collided: A motorist told police she didn’t realize Washington Street Hill was closed in the northbound lanes and swerved to miss it when she struck another vehicle on the passenger side, Thursday. Both drivers stopped and the other woman “apparently observed some damage to her vehicle because she then started yelling at” the other driver, police said. She said she told the woman the crash was her fault and asked her to call police because she didn’t have her cell phone, then got back in her car to wait. She told police she didn’t find out the other driver had fled until a construction worker “approached her and asked if she needed help.” Police said her vehicle “had some very light scuffs on the rear passenger door handle as well as the actual door panel.”

All clear: A woman in the 100 block of North Fourth Street asked police to check her vehicle for damage, Thursday. The owner said her boyfriend had “threatened to flatten her tires.” Police said they didn’t find any damage.

Near miss: A man fled J.C. Penney at the Fort Steuben Mall with merchandise he hadn’t paid for but dumped it all in the parking lot making his getaway, Thursday. Police said the male, said to be wearing jeans with no shirt, “threw everything into the lot” when he jumped over the guardrail and fled on foot toward Sinclair Avenue.

Booked: Reginald D. Johnson Jr., 24, N. Sixth St., Steubenville, criminal mischief, Thursday. A North Fifth Street resident had reported a man breaking a window at the residence and when police arrived, they said they found Johnson on the front porch, bleeding from his left hand, along with a broken window. The homeowner said she came home and found Johnson arguing with another resident and told him to go outside and calm down, but once he was out of the house, she locked the door. She alleges Johnson “began to pound on the front door, then the back door and then the window that eventually broke.”

Fired up: A homeowner in the 1100 block of Oak Grove Avenue said a neighbor has been lighting fireworks “and the debris has been landing on her property and vehicle” but there didn’t appear to be any damage,” Thursday. Police said a neighbor admitted lighting fireworks but said she “had not intentionally aimed any of t hem toward the neighbors.” Police advised her not to use fireworks.

Booked: Tommy Lopez, 35, 142 W. McConnell Ave., Wintersville, warrant for domestic violence (Wintersville Police), Thursday.

Cited: Eleanor Y. Archie, 60. 230 Hallock Ave., Mingo Junction, speeding; Cynthia L. Sickles, 67, 116 Beechwood Blvd., Wintersville, speeding/reckless operation.