Police Beat

Steubenville Police

TKO: Officers responding to a report of a fight at Seventh and Franklin Avenue Wednesday say when they arrived at the scene they found one of the parties involved unconscious. City firefighters were called to take the man to the hospital. Witnesses said the “fight was mutual” and they did not know the other person involved.

An employee of National Colloid reported a company check had been altered and cashed Wednesday. She said their bank notified company officials the check, written for $3,000, had “been altered to $9,000 and cashed using a mobile app” on May 7.

Troublemakers: A city resident said Wednesday two people known to her have been posting text messages on social media “calling her vulgar names and saying ignorant things about her” and had posted photos of her car and her house. She said she has since been receiving “vulgar text messages from random numbers” to the point where she changed her phone number. She said someone also showed up at her house.

Let it go: Two men were reportedly arguing inside a city business. One of the men involved told police he saw a woman walk away from her purse and warned her if she didn’t keep her eye on it, someone was going to steal it. He said she didn’t like it but the other male intervened and claimed her male companion walked her away then circled back by himself, hit him in the face and spit on him. The other male told police the woman was his girlfriend and said the man actually had told her “if she didn’t keep her purse more secure he might as well steal it himself” so he confronted him. Police said neither of them had any apparent injuries but they did see “what could have been” spit on the original caller’s shirt.

MIS’TAKEN’: Someone reported seeing a female “being taken into a home forcibly” in the 300 block of N. Seventh Street Wednesday. A man at the location told police it was his live-in girlfriend and she was “highly intoxicated” and had fallen and was unable to walk. Steubenville firefighters transported her to the hospital for treatment. Police said there was no indication anything was amiss.

On second thought: A caller told police a man in the vicinity of Seventh and University Boulevard might be overdosing Thursday. Police said he was showing signs of drug use, including incoherent speech and nodding off in between sentences, but denied having used drugs. After speaking with city firefighters, he agreed to go to the hospital for treatment.

Not there: An Oak Grove Avenue resident reported a basketball hoop Amazon said was delivered May 8 was not where it was supposed to be. She said family members checked the front porch but it was not there.

Stymied: A Madison Avenue resident said a man “showed up at her residence and (was) trying to get through the front window” Thursday and when he could not, he picked up a rock and broke it.

Charged: Jessica Griffith, 39, 114 Opal Boulevard, Steubenville, theft. Employees at Walmart allege they had watched Griffith on multiple occasions skip-scan merchandise, fail to scan items and use a tag from a watermelon to scan a large dog toy. Police said Griffith denied the allegation, telling them she “must have forgotten to scan the items and that it was a misunderstanding” and that the man who had been holding the dog toy before she picked it up off the shelf must have switched the tags. Employees claim the merchandise in question totaled just under $100.

Booked: Brian K. Manges, 52, 25 Highland Ave., Burgettstown, possession of drugs. Manges also was cited for driving under suspension; Marcus D. Goodwin, no age listed, 155 E. Main St., Hopedale, assault.