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STEUBENVILLE POLICE
-- Vehicular chaos: A Toronto man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly rear-ended a parked car in the 200 block of N. 4th Street Tuesday and left the scene, only to strike a barrier with his rear bumper and then hit a semi head-on while going south in the northbound lanes of State Route 7 as he made his getaway.
Police said charges of hit/skip, fleeing and eluding, no operator's license, unlawful/expired plates and failure to comply are pending in Steubenville Municipal Court against 62-year-old Walter Sapp.
Sapp, who has no fixed address in Toronto, told police he was "trying to find a Huntington Bank" and also that he had been "somewhere near 6th Street (when) someone had attempted to rob him at gunpoint," they said.
A witness who saw the S. 4th Street crash told police he followed the vehicle, a white Ford Edge, to Franklin Avenue and confirmed it was the same car that hit the semi, police said. The driver of the semi spotted the oncoming car traveling in the wrong direction on SR 7 and stopped before the impact, police said, adding Sapp narrowly missed hitting a blue pickup as well as backing into a cruiser.
Police allege Sapp's behavior was "erratic" and report he acknowledged seeing their emergency lights flashing "but could not advise why he failed to stop and initially advised that he was afraid." He also denied using drugs or alcohol, they said.
Police said the semi was driveable but the parked car on S. 4th Street had heavy rear-end damage.
-- Shake it up: A woman told police a male upset that she didn't leave the Dairy Queen drive-thru as quickly as he'd have liked Thursday threw ice cream at her SUV. She said he started yelling at her for taking too long" to pull out and while she was stopped at the Lovers Lane traffic light "something hit her vehicle while the driver was screaming at her." Police said it was clear from camera footage that a milkshake or Blizzard had been hurled at her car, with some of it spilling into the backseat and landing in her 5-year-old granddaughter's hair. Police said the male, identified as William Norris, told them he threw the milkshake at her car "due to a heated verbal exchange" they'd had. Norris, 55, 1315 West Adams St., Steubenville, was charged with littering, they said.
-- Mixed bag: A woman wanted a male removed from her residence Thursday, but when police arrived she told them he left as soon as he found out she'd called for assistance. Police said they heard an argument as they approached and she told them she was at odds with the mother of her children, who has children by the male who fled before police arrived. The caller said she was uncomfortable with the man being there and had argued with him, then after he left she and the other female began arguing because the woman had invited him over.
-- Hostile reception: A welfare check was requested for a woman living on N. 8th Street, but police said she was "hostile" when they went to her door Thursday. The woman said her ex-husband requested the welfare check "as a form of harassment due to her not answering his phone calls." He told police he hadn't spoken to his daughter in a month.
-- Safety first: An aged woman called police to report her children "were packing her things and moving her out of her home without her permission" Thursday. The daughter showed paperwork providing she has a medical and general power of attorney for her 90-year-old mother and said she's "constantly falling and they believe it's dangerous for her to live alone."
-- Hazardous duty: A juvenile bit a security guard at Trinity West who was "trying to remove a rubber glove from the (child's) mouth" Thursday. Hospital staff said the child "had been combative since she arrived" that morning and they'd "had to remove everything from the room for safety."
-- Being a pain: Callers reported a man "arguing with and yelling at employees" Wednesday at Maryland Market. Employees said he didn't threaten or harm them but "was just being disruptive and belligerent" and wanted him to know he shouldn't return that day.
-- Speaking up: Callers reported seeing a couple arguing in the 400 block of S. 4th Street Thursday. Police said the two were yelling at each other when they located them, but they insisted "there was no issue and the two were talking loudly over the traffic noise."
-- Not wanted: Police sent juveniles congregating in the lobby at McDonald's on their way Wednesday. A "large group" of them had gathered there and employees wanted them all to leave.