Jefferson County Sheriff

Mums the word: A Richmond woman said her phone is being hacked, Friday. She said she’d already filed a complaint with the FBI but Apple told her to file a report. She told deputies she knows who is doing it but didn’t want to say.

Picture this: A Toronto man said he’s receiving text messages from someone threatening to release “explicit pictures from a Tinder account” unless he pays that person $500, Sunday. He said he’d blocked the phone number but believes it’s a man in Smithfield using a texting app that spoofs phone numbers.

A revelation: A woman told deputies she is receiving inappropriate messages from an unknown number, Saturday. Deputies said her tormenter sent her “several sexually suggestive (texts) as well as a photo of male genitalia.”

Jiggling the knobs: A Beaumont Place resident believes someone tried to enter his home, Sunday. He said he heard the screen door open and the main door clicked but it was locked. He said his dog was barking and when he looked outside, he didn’t see anyone but he did hear a car “already in the area (driving) off.”

Trashed: A Jewett woman told deputies her neighbor’s trash “keeps making its way onto her property,” Friday. She said she wants something done about it.

Pay backs: A Dillonvale woman claimed a man who is friends with her niece entered her home brandishing a gun and demanding $20 from her, Friday. She claimed she pulled out several $50 bills but he didn’t want them and said all he needed was the $20 and left since she didn’t have one. The male contacted deputies later to tell them she had borrowed $50 from him several months ago and never paid her back, so when he was driving by and saw her through the window, he “stopped to see if she had any of it.” He said she told him he’d “have to speak to her niece” and then asked him if she’d noticed her ‘no trespassing’ sign, which he said was “on the table, face down, half covered with” junk. Deputies reminded him he’d been trespassed from the property the last time the two of them had argued about money.

Steubenville Police

Another day, another fight: A woman who’d been fighting with her significant other called police to report a disturbance, Sunday. An officer who spotted her walking in the 300 block of North Sixth Street said they’d been arguing that afternoon and she “wanted him to leave her alone.” He was currently on the phone with her, so police told him she “didn’t want to be around him” that day.

Walk off: A business owner in the 4400 block of Sunset Boulevard said a former employee stole a Dewalt 20-volt max cordless impact gun, Sunday. He said he’d tried multiple times to reach out to the former employee but got no response.

Reported: A caller reported hearing gunshots in the vicinity of state Route 7, but police found no evidence a gun had been fired, Monday.

Summons issued: Brittany Silver, 36, 201 Blue Ridge Manor Drive, Apt. 81, Wellsburg, petit theft, Monday.

Cited: Gina Rose, 51, 935 Oxford Blvd., Steubenville, speeding.

Follansbee Police

Charged: Austin D. Rinkes, 21, 1034 Highland St., Follansbee, violation of protective order, Friday.

Brooke County Sheriff

Charged: Kyle E. Barnhart, 34, 3339 West St., Weirton, domestic battery, Friday.

Charged: Robert M. Owings, 63, Burgettstown, Pa., driving while license revoked for driving under the influence, improper registration and no proof of insurance, Friday.

Weirton Police

Charged: Jessica M. Burr, 36, 92 Palomino Drive, driving under the influence, Sunday.